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Suzanne Berne (born January 17, 1961, in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist known for her foreboding character studies involving unexpected domestic and psychological drama in bucolic suburban settings. Berne's debut novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction.[1]
Suzanne Berne | |
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Born | Washington, D.C., U.S. | January 17, 1961
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Education | Georgetown Day School Wesleyan University Iowa Writers' Workshop |
Notable works | A Crime in the Neighborhood (1997) |
Notable awards | Orange Prize for Fiction (1999) |
Berne attended Georgetown Day School. She was educated at Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Berne has taught at both Harvard University and Wellesley College.[2] She is an associate English professor at Boston College.[3]
Berne currently lives in Boston with her husband and two daughters.[4]
Berne's debut novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won the Orange Prize.[1] The novel, set in 1972, is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Marsha, and chronicles the murder of a young boy in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C., against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal.
The Ghost at the Table explores the dramatic territory between two sisters' differing versions of their shared history.
A Perfect Arrangement tells of the complex and increasingly disturbing relationship between a normal suburban family and their exceptionally perfect nanny.
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