Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs (born December 7, 1943) is an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She adapted her debut novel into the film Compromising Positions. Early life, family and education She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Helen Asher Isaacs, a homemaker, and Morton Isaacs, an electrical engineer. At Queens College, she majored in English and minored in economics. After college, she worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine and also as a freelance political speechwriter. She is Jewish. She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in 1968. She left work in 1970 to stay at home with her newborn son. Three years later, in 1973, she gave birth to her daughter. During this time she freelanced, writing both speeches and magazine articles. She now lives on Long Island with her husband. Career Her first novel (and first attempt at fiction), Compromising Positions, was published in 1978. It was chosen as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club and was a New York Times bestseller. Her fiction has been translated into thirty different languages. She has also written a work of cultural criticism, Brave Dames and Wimpettes: What Women are Really Doing on Page and Screen, and a