Susan Elizabeth Phillips
1948
Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of the prominent authors of The United States who has written a number of highly successful novels in her writing career. She is very well known for writing her novels based on the Romance and Literature & Fiction genres. Susan was born on December 11, 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States to her parents named Louesa Coate Titus and John Aller Titus. Before going on to become one of the popular authors of her time, Susan received her B.F.A from the Ohio University in theater arts. After that, she began teaching English, drama, and speech at one of the local high schools until she got married and gave birth to her first child. Later, she remained at home for many years, taking care of her family as a homemaker. It was in her year 1976 that Susan began developing some interest towards reading and writing books. She moved to New Jersey from Ohio along with her family. There, she would often indulge in discussing about the interesting books to read with her neighbors. Particularly, she became a good friend of one of them named Claire Lefkowitz. Along with her, Susan wrote her first historical romance novel titled The Copeland Bride, and published it in the year 1983 under the pseudonym Justine Cole.