Susan Shapiro Last updated September 02, 2025 American author
Susan Shapiro is the American author of 17 books, including The Byline Bible, Five Men Who Broke My Heart , Only as Good as Your Word , Lighting Up , Speed Shrinking , and What's Never Said, and coauthor of The Bosnia List and the New York Times bestseller Unhooked .
Career She has written for The New Yorker , [ 1] The New York Times , [ 2] [ 3] The Washington Post , The Wall Street Journal , Newsweek , The Nation , The Daily Beast , Salon.com , Oprah.com , [ 4] Glamour , and Marie Claire magazines. [ 5] [ 6]
Shapiro was on the board of the National Book Critics Circle [ 7] and has been an award-winning writing professor at The New School and New York University since 1993. Her writing and publishing advice to students was compiled in The Byline Bible. [ 8]
She is married to TV/film writer Charlie Rubin . [ 9]
Works Non-fiction The Male-to-Female Dictionary , Berkley Trade, 1996, ISBN 978-1572971165 Food for the Soul: Selections from the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers Workshop , co-edited with Elizabeth Maxwell, Seabury Books, 2000, ISBN 978-1596270015 Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir , Delacorte Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0385337236 Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex: A Memoir , Delacorte Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0385338332 Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic: How to Meet & Marry Your Match , Delta, 2006, ISBN 978-0385340595 Only as Good as Your Word: Writing Lessons from My Favorite Literary Gurus , Seal Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1580052207 Unhooked: How to Quit Anything , MJF, 2014, ISBN 978-1606712269 The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return , co-authored with Kenan Trebincevic, Penguin Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0143124573 Kick Your Addiction: How to Quit Anything , co-authored with Frederick Woolverton, Skyhorse Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1629145877 The Byline Bible: Get Published in Five Weeks , Writer's Digest Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1440353680 Barbie: 60 Years of Inspiration , Assouline, 2019, ISBN 978-1614287575 The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology , Skyhorse Publishing, 2021, ISBN 978-1510762718References ↑ "An Introduction to Zoom for Teachers" . The New Yorker . April 10, 2020. ↑ Shapiro, Susan, "Making Room for My Junk Man" , The New York Times , September 12, 2009, accessed September 5, 2011. ↑ "Opinion | College Advice I Wish I'd Taken" . Retrieved November 20, 2018 . ↑ "What to Do When Your Dad Doesn't Approve of Your Lifestyle" . Oprah.com . Retrieved November 20, 2018 . ↑ Rachel Kramer Bussel, "Susan Shapiro, author, Lighting Up and Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir" Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine Gothamist , March 1, 2005, accessed September 5, 2011. ↑ Rosella Eleanor LaFevre, "Susan Shapiro, writer and teacher extraordinaire" , two.one.five , February 20, 2011, accessed September 5, 2011. ↑ National Book Critics Circle Board , accessed September 5, 2011. ↑ "Blood from a Door Nail: Talking with Susan Shapiro" . The Rumpus.net . August 13, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 . ↑ "Weddings; Susan Shapiro, Charlie J. Rubin" , The New York Times , July 28, 1996, accessed September 3, 2011. This page is based on this
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