Susanne Dunlap

Susanne Dunlap is the award-winning author of over a dozen historical novels, as well as an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach in fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. Her love of history began in academia with a PhD in music history from Yale. Her novel THE PORTRAITIST won first prize in its category in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and was a finalist in the CIBA Goethe Awards and the Foreword Indies Awards. THE ADORED ONE: A NOVEL OF LILLIAN LORRAINE AND FLORENZ ZIEGFELD, won first place in its category in the 2023 CIBA Goethe Awards for Late Historical Fiction. Susanne's varied history includes a few decades as an advertising copywriter, an interesting stint as a tech startup founder, and grueling jobs as managing director or director of development for performing arts nonprofits--both of which she had to drag into the 21st century by redesigning their websites and enabling online ticket sales. Today, she lives, coaches, and writes in beautiful Biddeford, Maine