Books at Noon: Susan Minot

Susan Minot comes to Books at Noon to discuss her latest work, Thirty Girls.

Susan Minot is the author of Monkeys, which won the Prix Femina Étranger in France, Lust & Other Stories, Folly, Evening , Rapture and a poetry collection, Poems 4 A.M. She wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Stealing Beauty” (1995) and co-authored the screenplay of “Evening” (2007) with Michael Cunningham.
Her non-fiction has been published in New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, House and Garden and Vogue. The story “This We Came to Know Afterward” about the kidnapped child soldiers in Uganda, was published in McSweeney’s #5 (2000) and selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2001. She is presently teaching at New York University and Stony Brook. She lives in NYC with her daughter and also on North Haven island in Maine.

Make the most of your lunch hour and come to The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Wednesdays this fall for Books at Noon, a series of free midday conversations with acclaimed authors. Books at Noon events are standing room only and take place under the center arch in historic Astor Hall. An audience Q&A and book-signing will follow each half-hour program. 

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