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Susan Swan\u2019s critically acclaimed fiction has been published in twenty countries. Currently, she is finishing a memoir,\u00a0Big Girls Don’t Cry<\/em>, about the way size shaped her life and working on a sequel to her short story collection,\u00a0Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With.<\/em> She is the co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, a new literary prize for women and non-binary writers in North America.
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Her latest novel, The Dead Celebrities Club<\/em>, was released in 2019 with Cormorant Books and is a fascinating account of a Toronto-born tycoon jailed for fraud in the US. Dale Paul is the<\/em> hedge fund whale. He enjoys a life of self-delusion that allows him to gamble other people\u2019s money for his personal enrichment. When his biggest gamble \u2014 involving the pensions of the American military \u2014 fails, many of those who trusted him find themselves living on the street or in their cars. Sentenced to prison, Dale Paul is confronted with nothing less than the challenge of understanding himself and his place in the age of the new robber-barons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Western Light<\/em>, (Cormorant Books 2012) describes a girl\u2019s love for a dubious father substitute, an ex-NHL star and convicted murderer. Its heroine Mouse Bradford appeared in Swan\u2019s international bestseller, The Wives of Bath<\/em>, which was made into a feature film, Lost and Delirious (2001). The film starred Mischa Barton, Piper Parabo and Jessica Pare and was shown in 34 countries. The Wives of Bath<\/em>, (about a murder in a girls\u2019 boarding school) was a 1993 finalist for the U.K.\u2019s Guardian Award and Ontario\u2019s Trillium Award. It was picked by a U.S. Readers\u2019 Guide as one of the best novels of the nineties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swan\u2019s sixth book of fiction, What Casanova Told Me<\/em>, links two women from different centuries through a long-lost journal about travels with Casanova in Italy, Greece and Turkey. What Casanova Told Me<\/em>, was published by Knopf in Canada (hardcover September 2004 and paperback 2005) and in the US by Bloomsbury (hardcover 2005 and paperback 2006). It has also been published in Spain, Russia, Serbia and Portugal.  Swan shares a Puritan background with her heroine Asked For Adams. A branch of Swan\u2019s family immigrated to America in 1635 and settled near Boston before moving to Canada two centuries later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swan\u2019s other novels include The Biggest Modern Woman in the World<\/em>, based on a true-life ancestor, a giantess who exhibited with P.T. Barnum. It was a finalist for Canada\u2019s Best First Novel Award and the Governor General\u2019s Award for Fiction. The Last of the Golden Girls<\/em>, about the sexual awakening of young women in an Ontario cottage country, was originally published in 1989. Stories from her collection, Stupid Boys are Good to Relax With<\/em> (1996) were published in Granta and Ms. magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist, feminist, novelist, activist, teacher, Swan\u2019s impact on the Canadian literary and political scene has been far-reaching. She has retired from her position of Associate Professor of Humanities at York University and currently mentors creative writing students at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. In 1999-2000, she was York\u2019s Millennial Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies. As chair, she hosted the successful Millennial Wisdom Symposium in Toronto featuring artists and social scientists debating the ways the lessons of the past. As chair of The Writers\u2019 Union of Canada (2007-2008) Swan brought in a new benefits deal for Canadian writers and self-employed Canadians in the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of southwestern Ontario and graduate of McGill University, Susan Swan makes her home and garden in Toronto\u2019s Annex neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Susan Swan\u2019s critically acclaimed fiction has been published in twenty countries. Currently, she is finishing a memoir,\u00a0Big Girls Don’t Cry, about the way size shaped her life and working on a sequel to her short story collection,\u00a0Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With. She is the co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, a … <\/p>\n

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