Writer susan isaacs biography

PERSONAL:

Born Dec 7, , in Borough, NY; girl of Jazzman (an electric engineer) allow Helen (a homemaker) Isaacs; married Elkan Abramowitz (an attorney), Honorable 11, ; children: Apostle, Elizabeth. Education: Attended Borough College (now Queens College of representation City College of Novel York). Politics: Democratic. Religion: Jewish.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—Owen Face, William Artificer Agency, Drive of say publicly Americas, Newborn York, Substantiation

CAREER:

Novelist, writer, and poet. Seventeen periodical, New Dynasty, NY, , began helper editor, became senior editor; freelance scribe, ; public speech author for Republican candidates imprisoned Brooklyn highest Queens, Creative York, endure for presidentship of depiction borough scrupulous Queens, Novel York, NY; movie producer.

MEMBER:

International Association fine Crime Writers, PEN (executive board fellow, ), Conundrum Writers invite America (national board associate, chair remember committee on line for freedom another speech, chairwoman, ), Strong Book Critics Circle, Imaginative Coalition, Worldwide Association commemorate Crime Writers, Adams The same Table, Earth Society freedom Journalists concentrate on Authors, President Round Table, Poets & Writers (member of mark of directors, , Chairwoman, —), Feminists for Unproblematic Expression, Borough College Foot (trustee), Walt Whitman Rootage Ass

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Susan Isaacs

American novelist

For other people named Susan Isaacs, see Susan Isaacs (disambiguation).

Susan Isaacs (born December 7, ) is an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She adapted her debut novel into the film Compromising Positions.

Early life, family and education

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She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Helen Asher Isaacs, a homemaker, and Morton Isaacs,^[1] 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.^[2] She is Jewish.^[3]

She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in ^[1] She left work in to stay at home with her newborn son. Three years later, in , she gave birth to her daughter.^{[citation needed]}

During this time she freelanced, writing both speeches and magazine articles. She now lives on Long Island with her husband.^[2]

Career

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Her first novel (and first attempt at fiction), Compromising Positions, was published in ^[4] It was chosen as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club and was a New York Times bestseller. Her fiction has been translated into thirty different languages. She has

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