Nationality American Alma mater Queens College | Name Susan Isaacs Role Novelist | |
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Born Susan Isaacs
December 7, 1943 (age 80)
Brooklyn, New York ( 1943-12-07 ) Occupation Novelist, essayist, screenwriter Notable works Compromising Positions;
Red, White, and Blue;
Lily White Spouse Elkan Abramowitz (m. 1968) Education Queens College, City University of New York Movies Shining Through, Hello Again Children Elizabeth Abramowitz, Andrew Abramowitz Books As Husbands Go: A No, Shining Through, Compromising Positions, Any place I hang my hat, Almost paradise Similar People David Seltzer, Frank Perry, Howard Rosenman, Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas | ||
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Susan Isaacs (born December 7, 1943) is an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She was born in Brooklyn, New York to Helen Asher Isaacs a homemaker, and Morton Isaacs an electrical engineer. At Queens College, she majored in English and minored in economics. After college, she worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine and also as a freelance political speechwriter.
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She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in 1968. She left work in 1970 to stay at home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three years later, in 1973, she gave birth to her daughter Elizabeth. She freelanced during this time, writing both speeches and magazine articles. She now lives on Long Island with her husband. Her first novel (and first attempt at fiction), Compromising Positions, was published in 1978. It was chosen as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club and, like all of her subsequent novels, was a New York Times bestseller. Her fiction has been translated into thirty different languages all over the world. She has also written a work of cultural criticism, Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women are Really Doing on Page and Screen.
In addition to writing books and screenplays, Isaacs has reviewed fiction and nonfiction for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Newsday. She belongs to the National Book Critics Circle. Isaacs has written about politics, including a series of essays on the 2000 presidential campaign for Newsday. She has also authored op-eds and articles on feminism, film, and First Amendment issues.
In 1985, Isaacs adapted her own novel for the screenplay of the Paramount film Compromising Positions, which starred Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia. She wrote and co-produced Touchstone Pictures’ Hello Again, a 1987 comedy starring Shelley Long, Gabriel Byrne, and Judith Ivey. Two more of her novels have been filmed. Shining Through, from 20th Century Fox, came out in 1992; it starred Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith. After All These Years was produced for the Hallmark Channel in 2013 and starred Wendie Malick. Isaacs is active in the literary community. She serves as a chairman on the board of Poets & Writers and, is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. She belongs to The Creative Coalition, PEN, the International Association of Crime Writers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Adams Round Table. She is a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as trustee emerita of the Queens College Foundation. Isaacs has also worked for Long Island organizations including the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Association, and the Nassau County Coalition Against Domestic Violence.