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Susan Hufford (December 15, 1938, in
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– November 28, 2006), was an actress and psychotherapist. As a member of the
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Association's national board of trustees and the Greater New York Chapter's board of directors, she was an advocate to raise awareness about ALS and became a major fundraiser for ALS research. She helped raise more than $1 million to find a cure for the disease. Hufford authored more than 20 books and also was a practicing
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with a private clinical practice in
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. Before making a career change, she was an actress in regional theater in addition to her Broadway career. Hufford was married to actor
Michael Zaslow Michael Joel Zaslow (November 1, 1942 – December 6, 1998) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as villain Roger Thorpe on CBS's ''Guiding Light'', a role he played from 1971 to 1980 and again from 1989 to 1997, earning ...
, whom she met when they both were in the
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production of ''
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'' in the early 1970s. The couple married on June 7, 1975, and were married for 23 years. They had two daughters, Marika and Helena. Zaslow died on December 6, 1998. Their daughter, Helena Hufford-Zaslow, died on December 28, 2004, in Connecticut at age 19, only days after completing her first semester at Wellesley College. In 2005, Hufford released an account about Zaslow and his fight with ALS, titled '' Not That Man Anymore'', a book Zaslow himself had begun writing prior to his death. Hufford died from cancer on November 28, 2006.


Books

* ''Miracles'' (1989) * ''Reflections'' (1981) * ''Midnight Sailing'' (1975) * ''Trail Of Innocence'' (1978) * ''Satan's Sunset'' (1977) * ''The Devil's Sonata'' (1976) * ''Skin Deep'' (1978) * ''Melody of Malice'' (1979) * ''Not That Man Anymore: (A Message From Michael)'' (2005) * ''How to Create Your Own Luck: The You Never Know Approach to Networking, Taking Chances, and Opening Yourself to Opportunity'' (2004) * ''A Delicate Deceit'' (1976) * ''The Devil's Sonata'' (1976) * ''Going All the Way'' (1980)


External links

* http://www.alsa.org/news/article.cfm?id=1059&CFID=3841938&CFTOKEN=91567595 American television actresses 1938 births 2006 deaths American stage actresses 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American psychotherapists American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American women {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub