Susie Morgenstern

Susie Morgenstern was born in Newark, New Jersey. She has two older sisters, Sandra and Effie, 8 years and 5 years older than her respectively. Their father, Meyer Hoch, was born in Poland; their mother, Sylvia Needleman, was born in Brooklyn, to Russian parents.[3][4]

Susie Morgenstern studied in the United States, Israel and France, and completed a doctoral thesis in comparative literature (Fantasy among contemporary Jewish writers).

She married the mathematician Jacques Morgenstern in 1967, and they settled in Nice (he died in 1994, after having been her first reader).[5]

She began her career as an author (in French) and illustrator for children. She published, in particular, at the School of Leisure, books that have become classics of children's literature: The Sixth, The First Time I Was Sixteen, Confessions of a Big Potato and Love Letters from 0 to 10.[6]

She also taught English until 2005 at the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis.[6]

Susie Morgenstern says she is “furiously in love” with France. She sees writing as what helped her survive.[7] In 2021, she published an autobiographical story, My 18 exiles.[8]

• Secret Letters from 0 to 10. 1996. ISBN 978-0-439-17373-5.
• A Book of Coupons. New York: Puffin. 2003-06-16. ISBN 978-0-670-89970-8.
• Aspiring Authors Journal. ABRAMS. September 2005. ISBN 978-0-8109-5979-8.