Susan Branch | |
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| Born | Susan Anne Stewart April 12, 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Author and illustrator |
| Website | www |
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]
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]
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