Suzanne Strempek Shea (born in

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, USA), is the author of

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and memoirs. She was the winner of the 2000

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Book Award for Fiction. Shea lives in Bondsville, Massachusetts, with her husband, long-time ''

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'' reporter and then columnist Tom Shea. She is the author of five novels:'' Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola, ''published by Washington Square Press. She has also written three memoirs, ''Songs From a Lead-lined Room: Notes - High and Low - From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation; Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore; and Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith'', all published by Beacon Press. Her freelance journalism and fiction has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Yankee, '' The Bark'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Organic Style'', and ''

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''. She was a regular contributor to '' Obit'' magazine. Her essay "Crafty Critters" appears in the anthology ''Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, ''published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2013.

Selected works

Novels * ''Selling the Lite of Heaven'' * ''Hoopi Shoopi Donna'' * ''Lily of the Valley'' * ''Around Again'' Memoirs * ''Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: Notes—High and Low—From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation'' * ''Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore'' Other Work * "Crafty Critters" in ''Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting.''

References

External links

Suzanne Strempek Shea's website

Books by Suzanne Strempek Shea
at amazon.com *
Interview with Suzanne Strempek Shea by J. A. Kaszuba Locke
* Eric Goldscheider

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