Susan B. Shapiro

Susan Shapiro is the national bestselling author/coauthor of 18 books her family hates, including Unhooked (a New York Times bestseller), Five Men Who Broke My Heart (a Publishers Weekly bestseller, recently optioned for a movie), The Byline Bible (an Amazon bestseller), and her most recent book, American Shield, a USA Today bestseller cowritten with Aquilino Gonell. Other titles include Lighting Up, The Bosnia List, World in Between, and The Forgiveness Tour. An award-winning writing professor, she freelances for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Salon, Tablet, The Forward, Elle, Marie Claire, Oprah, Wired, and The New Yorker online. She teaches her popular "instant gratification takes too long" classes at The New School, NYU, and Columbia University, and privately online. You can follow her on Instagram at @profsue123.