Susan Braudy

Susan Braudy is a Pulitzer nominated author, journalist, and former Vice President of East Coast Production at Warner Brothers. She was one of the first editors of the student/faculty magazine The New Journal at Yale. She's currently a member of that magazine's advisory board. She is best known as the author of two non-fiction books, Between Marriage and Divorce: A Woman's Diary (1975) and Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left (2003).

She received a Cum Laude degree from Bryn Mawr College in the early 1960s, then attended University of Pennsylvania and Yale University (where she studied philosophy).

Braudy's father worked for the Philadelphia Housing Authority and actively supported local artists. He was Vice President of the American Jewish Committee. His Master's thesis at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania became the book Technological Unemployment, an early look at how advances in technology were replacing human labor. He also wanted to be a writer and Braudy believes this may be the reason she became a writer. Braudy's mother taught history at Germantown High School and became a reading supervisor. Braudy now lives with Joe Weintraub and two dogs, Tootsie and Snickers.

Braudy has written for the New York Times, Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Ms. Magazine, New York Magazine and The New Journal. She has also taught writing at Brooklyn College.

She was a judge for the 2006 Lukas Prize, an award from the Columbia University Journalism School given annually to recognize excellence in book-length investigative journalism.

In 1981, Braudy was appointed as the Vice President of East Coast Production at Warner Brothers. She also worked as Vice President of Michael Douglas's Stonebridge Production Company for three years from 1986-1989. She was hired by Francis Ford Coppola, Jerry Bruckheimer, Martin Scorsese, and Oliver Stone to write screenplays.

Her research for a piece on paperback auctions, published in The New York Times, was used by the Federal Trade Commission to institute and win an anti-trust suit against the high-bidder in a multimillion dollar paperback rights auction.

Her two blogs are Manhattan Voyeur and Writers Celebrate Writing.

She counts as her mentors Gloria Steinem, who encouraged her to express her female voice; Daniel Yergin, who taught her the value of infinite research; Michael Douglas, who taught her that glamor isn't glamorous; Michael Wolff, who taught her the music of the New York hustle; Marshall Brickman, who taught her about heartbreak on the fast track; Woody Allen, who taught her his artistic credo, "Turn pain into cash"; and Leo Braudy, who gave her Joan Didion's personal essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem.