Susan Elizabeth Duncan (born 1951) is an Australian author, a former journalist and former editor of '' The Australian Women's Weekly'' and ''

New Idea ''New Idea'' is a long-running Australian weekly magazine aimed at women that is published by Are Media. History The magazine was first published in 1902 by Fitchett Bros. The founder was Thomas Shaw Fitchett. It was subtitled A Women's Home Jou ...

''.

Personal life

After being diagnosed with

breast cancer Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue. Signs of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in breast shape, dimpling of the skin, milk rejection, fluid coming from the nipple, a newly inverted nipple, or a re ...

in 1999, Duncan had a mastectomy and chemotherapy. A cancer survivor, she is an active supporter of breast cancer awareness. She has been married twice. Her first husband died from a brain tumour. Duncan lives in New South Wales with her current husband, Bob. They have homes at

Pittwater Pittwater is a semi-mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary, located about north of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia; being one of the bodies of water that separate greater Metropolitan Sydney from the Ce ...

and the mid-north coast of NSW. The Pittwater home, on Lovett Bay, is called ''Tarrangaua'' and was built for poet

Dorothea Mackellar Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem ''My Country'' is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "''I love a sunburnt country/ ...

in 1925.

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Audio interview with Susan Duncan on ABC radioAudio interview with Susan Duncan, ''Conversations'', ABC Radio National 01 Nov 2016
] 1951 births Living people People from Albury, New South Wales Place of birth missing (living people) Australian autobiographers Australian magazine editors Women autobiographers 21st-century Australian women writers 21st-century Australian writers 20th-century Australian women writers 20th-century Australian writers Women magazine editors Writers from New South Wales {{Australia-writer-stub