
Susan Minot’s debut, Monkeys, won the 1987 Prix Femina Étranger. In 1994 Minot collaborated on the screenplay for the feature Stealing Beauty with Bernardo Bertolucci, and wrote the screenplay for Evening, based on her 2007 novel of same name, with Michael Cunningham. Minot also published Lust & Other Stories in 1989, the novel Folly in 1993, and the novella Rapture, in 2002. Minot’s story Pole Pole was awarded The PEN/O’Henry Prize in 2011 and her honors include a Best American Travel Writing Award and a Pushcart Prize.