Susan Isaacs (born December 7, 1943) is an American
novelist,
essayist, and
screenwriter. She was born in
Brooklyn, New York to Helen Asher Isaacs a homemaker, and Morton Isaacs an electrical engineer. At Queens College, she majored in English and minored in economics. After college, she worked as a senior
editor at
Seventeen magazine and also as a freelance political speechwriter.