Susan Shapiro Susan Shapiro, an award-winning writer and professor, freelances for the NY Times, Washington Post, WSJ, LA Times, NY Magazine, Salon, Elle, Oprah, Wired & New Yorker online. She's the bestselling author/coauthor of 18 books her family hates like Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked, The Bosnia List and her recent memoir The Forgiveness Tour. She lives with her scriptwriter husband in Manhattan and uses her writing/publishing guides The Book Bible and Byline Bible to teach her wildly popular "instant gratification takes too long" courses at The New School, NYU, Columbia University and in private classes & seminars - now online. Follow her on Twitter at @susanshapironet, Instagram at @Profsue123 or email ProfSue123@gmail.com. Books    Events/Classes    Testimonials    TV/Radio    Clips    Contact

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Central American Forbes review
NYPost Best Christmas books
Forbes review
Town & Country Magazine rave
Jewish Journal review
Gotham Magazine review
Sue on German Barbie documentary
Sue on Barbie Canadian News show
Barbie OpEd in Salon
Ruth Handler piece in Tablet
Sue on Michigan TV News
The Sun
Toronto CBC TV News
Insider
Vice Magazine
Detroit News
Kveller interview
Atelier Dore
Architectural Digest
Interview Magazine
French Vogue
Journal Des Femme
Greek Man Code
Brazilian Vogue
Czechoslovakia
Honeysuckle Magazine
The Daily Beast
Forbes: Me and My Barbie
The Daily News
The New York Times End Paper
The New York Times Metro Essay

“If this isn’t the perfect holiday gift for the Barbie fanatics in your life, we don’t know what is,” said Sophie Dweck in Town & Country. “Barbie has dominated pop culture in 2023 and this oversize book assembles an encyclopedia’s worth of fascinating facts and insights about Ruth Handler’s iconic creation alongside pictures of the era many Barbies through the years.” On the cover is a new photo of the first Barbie, one of many original images in a volume that mixes quotations from celebrities with text by journalist Susan Shapiro to tell the story of the trail-blazing doll. "Handler’s brilliant idea in 1959 was to provide a toy that helped girls imagine roles in life beyond wife and mother,” said Denise Warner in Gotham. Ever since” Barbie has been a constant in American pop culture and Shapiro’s text charts six decades of U.S. cultural history while detailing how Barbie has adjusted to changing trends.” -The Week roundup of The Season's Best Coffee Table Titles