Susan Byrum Rountree

Susan Byrum Rountree is an author and essayist whose work has been featured in Southern Living, Business North Carolina, Elegant Bride, Our State, The News & Observer and many other regional and national publications for the past 45 years. A native of eastern North Carolina, she writes about history, intriguing people and places within the Tar Heel state, and her life as a working writer, mother and grandmother.

Southern Living recently wrote: "Susan Byrum Rountree’s fascination with Nags Head began when she was a child, visiting the Outer Banks and admiring the century-old beach cottages she came to think of as the 'Unpainted Aristocracy.' Her curiosity about the people who lived in them eventually led to newspaper stories, years of research and interviews, and her book Nags Headers, a history of the community and its iconic cottages.” Credit: Southern Living

Susan lives and writes from her home in Raleigh, North Carolina.