Susan Lynton is a versatile, multifaceted author whose work explores and deepens our understanding of the tense and often treacherous boundary between secrets and truth. Her portfolio includes both a fictionalized memoir, Family Secrets: Four Wars & Five Decades of Military Life and a contemporary literary novel, Follow the Falcon, both under representation with Christmas Lake Literary. Though each book tells a different story, their themes—the fallout of war, exploitation, marginalization, and the search for identity in a fragmented world—are related, and the author’s compelling prose style—subtle and pared down yet explosive just under the surface—fashions these two tales into a dynamic duo.

As a screenwriter and program developer, Susan has worked for independent production companies and advertising agencies, A&E, Time Warner, Paramount Publishing, WNET 13, Nickelodeon, PBS, Proctor & Gamble, CNBC and WCBS.  Susan has received 2 Cine Gold Eagles for her film and television work, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities state-based programs, Time-Life and a Highest Leaf Award from the Women’s Venture Fund for innovation and creativity.  

Helping non-profits has been a passion.  In the past, when  not busy writing, she helped young Europeans and North Africans who have talent in media, but not the finances to succeed through the non-profit Eurica Media Lab.  She founded and fundraised for Womanspace, an art space for women, was a founding member of the Coalition of Professional Women in Arts and Media (secretary/treasurer), and has served on the Boards of New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) and the Westport Writers’ Workshop. She has been a participating artist/playwright at Alice’s developmental theater in New York and has also served on an advisory panel for the United States Corporation for Public Broadcasting to create a National Training Laboratory for Interactive Media, and on an advisory panel for the India-US Sub-commission on Interactive Media.

Believing in helping others to attain their potential, she has worked with non-profits—in prisons, for the National Center on Volunteerism; in a Youth Services Agency in New York; and most recently as founder of Eurica Media Lab, which trains young people in media from the US, France, and Algeria.  Eurica Media Lab received grants from the U.S. Department of State, and the French government for their cross-cultural work. 

An in depth profile of Susan can be found on the blog of Second Lives Club.

Susan lives and writes in Leverett, MA, and the south of France.