Susan Ertz

Susan Ertz (13 February 1887[1] – 11 April 1985) was an Anglo-American writer, known for her "sentimental tales of genteel life in the country.

"[2] She was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England to American parents Charles and Mary Ertz.

A common theme running through her work involves a female character "who is thrust out on her own from a sheltered environment into a vaguely hostile external world with which she is initially unprepared to cope.

Ertz's Woman Alive is a science fiction novel set after all women other than the titular heroine have perished in a plague.

[4][5] One of her later works, In the Cool of the Day, was the source of an eponymous movie in 1963, starring Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, and Angela Lansbury.

First edition (1933), D. Appleton-Century