Susan Minot grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Etranger in France. She is the author of Evening, Folly, Lust & Other Stories and most recently the novella Rapture. She wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She currently lives on North Haven Island in Maine.