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Susanna Moore (born 1945) is an American writer.
Susanna Moore grew up in Hawaii. Her memoir, I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i gives the reader deep insight into a life in Hawaii other than that presented by tourist brochures.
In 1999 she received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2006 she received a Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Berlin; and in 2007 she received a Fellowship in Literature from the Asian Cultural Council.
Susanna Moore was Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Yale University in 1988, 1989 & 1994; Visiting Lecturer at New York Graduate School in 1995; Creative Writing Teacher at Brooklyn Federal Detention Center between 2004 and 2006; and Lecturer of Creative Writing at Princeton University between 2007 and 2009. During May to August 2009, Susanna Moore will be Writer-in-Residence at Australia's University of Adelaide.
Novels
- My Old Sweetheart (1982) ISBN 0-679-77641-9
- The Whiteness of Bones (1989) ISBN 1-4000-7504-1
- Sleeping Beauties (1993)
- In the Cut (1995) ISBN 0-452-28129-6 & ISBN 0-452-28480-5 (filmed by Jane Campion starring Meg Ryan)
- One Last Look (2003) ISBN 1-4000-7541-6
- I Myself Have Seen It: The Myth of Hawai'i (2003) ISBN 0-7922-6528-9
- The Big Girls (2007) ISBN 1-4000-4190-2 and ISBN 978-1-4000-4190-9
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