SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE has published thirteen novels, most recently A Student of Living Things. She is a professor of English at George Mason University and formerly cochairman and president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.
Warm Springs
TRACES OF CHILDHOOD AT FDR'S POLIO HAVEN
a new book by Susan Richards Shreve
What happens when a fleet and willing--willful--spirit finds herself with a body inadequate to her energy and ambition? In the case of Susan Richard Shreve, a writer was born. One of the last generation of Americans to suffer polio, Shreve reveals how inextricably entwined are our strengths and weaknesses, and that freedom can be as much a state of mind as of circumstance. A lovely book, by a passionate and gallant human being.
— Kathryn Harrison
author of The Kiss and The Mother Knot
news/updates
A Student of Living Things out on paperback
This just in, the book A Student of Living Things will soon be released in Paperback. Coinciding with the release of my newest book, Warm Springs, the paperback will have more photos of me as a kid.