Susan Howatch
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Susan Howatch was born on July 14, 1940 in England. She graduated from the University of London in 1961 and served as a law clerk and secretary in the early 1960s before becoming a full-time writer. She writes in a variety of genres, including mystery, romance, and historical fiction. Her books vis mere include The Dark Shore, April's Grave, Penmarric, and the six-volume Starbridge series. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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The Dark Shore, The Waiting Sands, and Call in the Night: Susan Howatch Omnibus (2003) 10 eksemplarer
Penmarric [1979 TV series] — Screenwriter — 6 eksemplarer
The Susan Howatch Omnibus 3 eksemplarer
The Birth of the Starbridge Novels: a Lecture 2 eksemplarer
The Second Susan Howatch Omnibus 2 eksemplarer
ROUE DE LA FORTUNE 1 eksemplar
ENTRE DIEU ET DIABLE 1 eksemplar
Dimmornas hus 1 eksemplar
Areias movediças 1 eksemplar
Skremmende spor 1 eksemplar
Any 1 eksemplar
Jan-Yves recht en onrecht 1 eksemplar
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- Andre navne
- Sturt, Susan Elizabeth
- Fødselsdato
- 1940-07-14
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- King's College, London
- Erhverv
- Writer
- Agent
- Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd
- Kort biografi
- Born Susan Elizabeth Sturt in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, she was the daughter of a stockbroker, and went to school at Sutton High School. She was an only child whose father was killed during World War II, but she has described her childhood as a happy one.
She obtained a degree in law from King's College London in 1961. In 1964, she emigrated to the United States, where she worked as a secretary in New York City. She married Joseph Howatch, a sculptor and writer, that year and began her career as a writer, finding success almost immediately with her intricately detailed gothic novels. A daughter was born to the couple in 1971. Upon separating from her husband in 1975, Howatch returned to England, then lived in the Republic of Ireland from 1976–80 before moving back to England permanently in 1980.
After her latter return to England, Howatch found herself "rich, successful, and living exactly where I wanted to live," but feeling a spiritual emptiness which she ascribed to "trying to hold my divided self together" and questioning her life and what she should do with it.
She had settled in Salisbury out of love for the beauty of the town, but found herself increasingly drawn to Salisbury Cathedral; eventually she began to study Anglican Christianity in earnest. She experienced a spiritual epiphany, and concluded that she should continue to write novels, but to "set forth my discoveries in the light of faith, no matter how feeble and inadequate my beginner's faith was." This personal turning point culminated in Howatch's most successful and popular works, the Starbridge series.
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- Værker
- 57
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- 2
- Medlemmer
- 7,642
- Popularitet
- #3,194
- Vurdering
- 3.9
- Anmeldelser
- 134
- ISBN
- 391
- Sprog
- 13
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- 31
Interesting story but some of the plot twists were too unbelievable. Still an interesting bit of historical fiction mostly in Ireland during turbulent and heartbreaking times.