Susan Shapiro Barash
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Susan Shapiro Barash

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Susan Shapiro Barash is an American author of fourteen nonfiction women’s issue books including Estranged: How Strained Female Friendships are Mended or Ended, Tripping the Prom Queen, The Nine Phases of Marriage and You’re Grounded Forever, but First Let’s Go Shopping. She writes fiction under her pen name Susannah Marren. Her novels are Between the Tides, A Palm Beach Wife, A Palm Beach Scandal and Maribelle's Shadow. Her newest novel, Palm Beach Confidential, will be published on June 2, 2026.

Susan’s books focus on the gender divide, how women are positioned in our society and their innermost feelings about themselves as daughters, mothers, sisters, friends, wives, mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, rivals, colleagues, and lovers. Susan has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Post, The Chicago Tribune, Elle, ‘O’, and Marie Claire. She has appeared on national television including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. She has been a guest on NPR and Sirius Radio. Her speaking appearances include Credit Suisse, Bayer Diagnostics, UBS, United Way, Kravis Center for the Arts and the Society of the Four Arts. Several of her titles have been optioned for screen.

Susan taught in the Writing Department at Marymount Manhattan College for over two decades and has guest taught at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. She has served as a literary panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, as a judge for the International Emmys and as Vice Chair of the Mentoring Committee of the Women’s Leadership Board at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
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