Minot lives with her daughter and, when not traveling, divides her time between homes in New York City and Maine.

Minot as a young girl, participating in a family circus performance. She was raised as a Roman Catholic in a large family of seven children in the Boston suburb Manchester-by-the-Sea.

George R. Minot Jr. and Carrie Minot, Susan’s mother and father, in the mid 1950s.

Minot circa 1965, at age nine or ten.

A photo from Minot’s high school yearbook in 1974, when she was eighteen years old. She attended Brown University, graduating in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in semiotics.

The Minot siblings in 1991. From left to right: Sam, Chris, Dinah, George, Susan, Eliza, and Carrie. Susan drew upon her upbringing with six siblings in her novel Monkeys.

Seen here in SoHo in New York City in February of 1988, Minot works on rewrites for Lust & Other Stories, which would be published the next year.

Minot at a picnic table in Belfast, Maine, during the summer of 1997. She has residences both in New York and in Maine, where she often spends her summers.

In addition to being a writer, Minot is also a talented artist. She is seen here doing watercolors in a London restaurant in September 1997.

Minot’s journalist identification card from Harper’s Magazine, issued in 1997. She has published numerous short stories in the magazine.

Manuscript pages and watercolors adorn the wall above Minot’s New York writing desk, in her Manhattan apartment.

While on safari in Loliondo, Tanzania, in 1999, Minot set up this table to work on her watercolors of the local scenery.

Susan Minot during her video shoot with Open Road in North Haven, Maine, in the summer of 2010.

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