Susan Conant

Susan Conant is a renowned American author, celebrated for her cozy mystery novels. She has penned the Dog Lover's Mysteries and the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, the latter in collaboration with her daughter, Jessica Conant-Park. Conant's educational background is impressive, having graduated from Radcliffe College and subsequently earning her doctorate in human development from Harvard.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Conant is known for her deep involvement with the Alaskan Malamute Rescue of New England. This interest in Alaskan Malamutes is also reflected in her writing, with these beautiful dogs often featuring in her works. Conant's love for animals, particularly dogs, is a recurring theme in her biography, with her childhood best friends being pointers named Stuffy and Nonny.

There is a notable connection between Susan Conant and her daughter, Jessica Park, also a successful author. Park, who writes under the name Jessica Conant-Park when collaborating with her mother, is Conant's daughter in real life. The two authors have combined their talents to create the Gourmet Girl Mysteries, a series that has been well-received by readers.

Conant was born in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and spent her childhood with imaginary companions, a cat named Thirsty Melirsty Medrinkable, a family of dogs, and parents known as Mommy and Daddy Suh. This early fascination with creating characters and narratives has evidently translated into a successful career as a mystery writer. Currently, Conant resides just outside Boston with her husband, a clinical psychologist, and their Alaskan malamute, Django, and two Chartreux cats, Kansas City and Shadow Celeste. The cats in her novel 'Scratch the Surface' are portraits of her own Chartreux, further illustrating the personal touch she brings to her writing.