Susan Minot /ˈmaɪnət/ (born December 7, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and painter.
Minot wrote the screenplay for Stealing Beauty (1996) with Bernardo Bertolucci, and co-authored Evening (based on her novel of the same name) with Michael Cunningham.
The Little Locksmith, a play based on the book by Katharine Butler Hathaway (1942), was performed in North Haven, Maine, in 2002, starring Linda Hunt.
[3] Reviewing her novella Rapture in The Atlantic Monthly, James Marcus wrote, "Sex and the single girl have seldom been absent from Susan Minot's fiction",[9] and Dave Welch at Powells.com identifies one of Minot's themes as "the emotional safeguards within family and romantic relations that hold people apart".
[10] Of Lust, Jill Franks wrote that Minot begins with short, simple sentences, building gradually to longer ones to create the inevitable conclusion: men don't love like women do.
[11] In Folly, a Bostonian woman of privileged background is involved with two different men as she tries to find equilibrium with her society and family in the era between the world wars.