Susan Shapiro is the American author of 17 books, including ''The Byline Bible,'' ''Five Men Who Broke My Heart'', ''Only as Good as Your Word'', ''Lighting Up'', ''Speed Shrinking'', and ''What's Never Said,'' and coauthor of ''The Bosnia List'' and the ''
New York Times'' bestseller ''Unhooked''.
She has written for ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''
The Washington Post'', ''
The Wall Street Journal,'' ''
Newsweek'', ''
The Nation'', ''
The Daily Beast'',
Salon.com,
Oprah.com
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Arts
Film
* ''Glamour'' (1931 film), a British film
* ''Glamour'' (1934 film), an American film
* ''Glamour'' (2000 film), a Hungarian film
Writing
* ''Glamour'' (magazine), a magazine for women
* ''The Glamour ...
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Marie Claire
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Shapiro was on the board of the
National Book Critics Circle and has been an award-winning writing professor at
The New School and
New York University since 1993. Her writing and publishing advice to students was compiled in ''The Byline Bible.''
She is married to TV/film writer
Charlie Rubin.
"Weddings; Susan Shapiro, Charlie J. Rubin"
''The New York Times'', July 28, 1996, accessed September 3, 2011.
Works
Non-fiction
* ''The Male-to-Female Dictionary'', Berkley Trade, 1996,
* ''Food for the Soul: Selections from the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers Workshop'', co-edited with Elizabeth Maxwell, Seabury Books, 2000,
* ''Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir'', Delacorte Press, 2004,
* ''Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex: A Memoir'', Delacorte Press, 2004,
* ''Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic: How to Meet & Marry Your Match'', Delta, 2006,
* ''Only as Good as Your Word: Writing Lessons from My Favorite Literary Gurus'', Seal Press, 2007,
* ''Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships'', St. Martin's Press, 2009,
* ''Unhooked: How to Quit Anything'', MJF, 2014,
* ''The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return'', co-authored with Kenan Trebincevic, Penguin Books, 2014,
* ''Kick Your Addiction: How to Quit Anything'', co-authored with Frederick Woolverton, Skyhorse Publishing, 2014,
* ''The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks'', Writer's Digest Books, 2018,
* ''Barbie: 60 Years of Inspiration'', Assouline, 2019,
* The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology, Skyhorse Publishing, 2021, ISBN 978-1510762718
Fiction
* ''Speed Shrinking'', Thomas Dunne Books, 2009,
* ''Overexposed: A novel'', Thomas Dunne Books, 2010,
* ''What's Never Said'', Heliotrope Books, 2015,
References
External links
*
The Today Show
The Early Show
Lisa Loeb's #1 Single
NY Weekend Today
Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer on Hallmark Channel
Channel 7 Detroit
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Living people
American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women non-fiction writers
21st-century American women