Susan Branch

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Susan Branch
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Born
Susan Anne Stewart

(1947-04-12) April 12, 1947 (age 78)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author and illustrator
Website www.susanbranch.com

Susan Branch is an American author, watercolorist, and designer. Her works include the Heart of the Home [1] [2] series of cookbooks [3] in which she was also the illustrator. [4] [5] [6]

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Life

Born in St. Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California, she is the eldest of Patricia Louise (Smith) and John Patrick Stewart's eight children, [7] Branch grew up in the San Fernando Valley outside of Los Angeles, California. [1] [8] This is chronicled in her 2015 memoir, The Fairy Tale Girl. Her first commercial success manifested in 1978 at the Red Door Gallery [9] in Beverly Hills, California. In 1982, Branch moved from California to the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, a story told in part-two of her memoir, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams, published in 2016. [9] [10] In 1986, the first of eleven volumes, Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen, [2] [11] was published by Hachette Book Group (then "Little, Brown and Company"). [8] [12] In 1990, Branch's book, Christmas from the Heart of the Home [13] was nominated for the James Beard Award. [14] [15] She lives on Martha's Vineyard with her partner Joe Hall and runs Susan Branch Studios. [16]

Branch's book, A Fine Romance, Falling in Love with the English Countryside (2013), was discussed in an article in Publishers Weekly [17] both for the velocity of its sales (going into 3rd printing) and how an established author has taken risks by choosing a hybrid publishing route. Her latest book, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams, currently a New York Times Bestseller, [18] was published by her own imprint, Spring Street Publishing. Her entry into self publishing is discussed in a recent article in Publishers Weekly. [19]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Driscoll, Kathi Scrizzi (July 11, 1999). "At Home with Susan Branch". Cape Cod Times.
  2. 1 2 "Fresh and Simple Year Round Dishes". Miami Herald. January 15, 1987.
  3. ↑ "From New England, Homey Ideas for the Year Round". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 7, 1987.
  4. ↑ Susan Branch, Library of Congress
  5. ↑ Hachette Book Group
  6. ↑ Kuzemchak, Sally (April 19, 2000). "Girlfriends and the Joys of Sharing Everything". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.
  7. ↑ Doten, Patti (October 30, 1997). "The Darling of Decoration". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on June 29, 2014.
  8. 1 2 Grauerholz, Mary (March 1, 2001). "At Home with Susan Branch". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on June 29, 2014.
  9. 1 2 Not Quite June Cleaver interview, October 2010
  10. ↑ Masello, David (October 2007). "Entertaining in Fall". Country Living Magazine.
  11. ↑ Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen, ISBN   0-316-10631-3, ISBN   978-0-316-10631-3
  12. ↑ Hachette Book Group
  13. ↑ Christmas from the Heart of the Home, ISBN   0-316-10638-0, ISBN   978-0-316-10638-2
  14. ↑ James Beard Award
  15. ↑ "Welcome to Heart of the Home". San Luis Obispo Tribune. May 24, 2006.
  16. ↑ . In August 2024 the couple relocated to Arroyo Grande in Central California to the smaller house they had owned for a number of years. Quinn-Szcesuil, Julia (November 2011). "Love's Branching". Cape Cod Home.
  17. ↑ Rosen, Judith. "Susan Branch's Bestseller Pubbed by Hybrid". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  18. ↑ "New York Times Books, Bestsellers". The New York Times. June 2016.
  19. ↑ "Susan Branch's 'Fine Romance' with Self-Publishing" . Retrieved June 26, 2016.
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