SUSAN SHREVE was the founder of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at George Mason

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University and served as its director for three years. She has been a Professor of English Literature at George Mason for twenty-two years.She has been a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton, Columbia, Bennington and George Washington University, as well as a Bread Loaf Writing Fellow and Staff. In addition to her works of fiction, Susan has written twenty-three books for children published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and William Morrow, among others. From 1985-1995 she wrote and delivered short documentary essays for the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour. Her novel "Daughters of the New World" has just completed production with Warner Brothers as a four part mini-series to be aired on NBC in the Fall of 1998. "A Country of Strangers" has been optioned for film and "The Visiting Physician" is in development as a new series for NBC.

• A Fortunate Madness, Houghton Mifflin, 1974
  
• A Woman Like That, Atheneum, 1977
  
• Children of Power, Macmillan, 1979
  
• Miracle Play, William Morrow and Co., 1981
  
• Dreaming of Heroes, William Morrow and Co., 1984
  
• Queen of Hearts, Simon and Schuster, 1987
  
• A Country of Strangers, Simon and Schuster, 1989
  
• Daughters of the New World, Doubleday, 1992
  
• The Train Home, Doubleday, 1993
  Editor with Marita Golden of an anthology of essays and stories, Skip Deep: Women and Race, Doubleday, 1995
  
• The Visiting Physician, Doubleday, 1996
  Editor with Porter Shreve of an anthology of original essays on justice,
• Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice, Beacon Press, 1997
  The first of a series of books, including How We Want to Live: Narratives on Progress, to be published in August, 1998.

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