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.