Suzanne Berne (born January 17, 1961, in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist known for her foreboding character studies involving unexpected domestic and psychological drama in bucolic suburban settings.
Berne's debut novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction.
She was educated at Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
[1] The novel, set in 1972, is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Marsha, and chronicles the murder of a young boy in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C., against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal.
The Ghost at the Table explores the dramatic territory between two sisters' differing versions of their shared history.