Susan Shapiro

Susan Shapiro is the American author of twelve 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. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Nation, The Daily Beast, Salon.com, Oprah.com, Glamour, and Marie Claire magazines.Shapiro was on the board of the National Book Critics Circle 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.She is married to TV/film writer Charlie Rubin. 2Works 3Non-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 Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships, S