Suzanne Lebsock (born December 1, 1949, at Williston, ND[1]) is an American author and historian.
Her works include her first book The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 which was published in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize,[2] and A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial.
She has won the Francis Parkman Prize for her writing, and as of 2010[update] is a Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Lebsock has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and MacArthur foundations.
[3] Lebsock was formerly married to Richard Levis McCormick, a former president of Rutgers University.