Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femine Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. Her latest book is “Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories.” She lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.