Susan Scarf Merrell

Susan Scarf Merrell is an American author who has published novels, short stories, and essays. Her second novel, Shirley, about a young woman who goes to live with novelist Shirley Jackson and Stanley Edgar Hyman in their Bennington home in 1964, was published June 12, 2014 by Blue Rider/Penguin Books.

Her short stories and essays have been published in Los Angeles Review of Books,[1] Tin House,[2] The Writer's Chronicle, The Southampton Review, and The New Haven Review. Her debut novel, A Member of the Family was published in 2001 after her publication of The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships in 1997.

A graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts & Sciences, Merrell received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College and teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She is also director of the Southampton Writers Conference.[3]

Merrell is married to James Merrell. She is the daughter of journalist Maggie Scarf and economist Herbert Scarf. She has two sisters, Martha Samuelson and Betsy S. Stone.

Publications
  • The Accidental Bond: How Sibling Connections Influence Adult Relationships (1997) ISBN 978-0449911198
  • A Member of the Family: A Novel (2001) ISBN 978-0060930097
  • Shirley: A Novel (2014) ISBN 978-0147516190
gollark: Hmm, yes, if you *know* that then it's kind of similar to coercion.
gollark: > i shouldn't need to deal with people who live in the time of the old testament properly if they're not willing to catch up to the centuries of science which have undermined their very base belief about the earthYes, and you can ignore them/block them/etc.
gollark: You can blame it on your upbringing and environment and genes or the initial conditions of the universe and the rules for updating it or something like that, but I'm a compatibilist.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: Maybe you could say that about political ideologies too. Hmm. They're generally less reason-based, inasmuch as you can't really measure "opinion goodness" objectively.

References
  1. Merrell, Susan Scarf. "Still Loyal to the Sentence". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-01-22.
  2. The Art of the Sentence: Susan Scarf Merrell | Tin House
  3. Stony Brook University - MFA in Creative Writing & Literature People


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