Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as
Sue Eakin (December 7, 1918September 17, 2009), was an
American historian, a
professor, and a
journalist from
Bunkie, Louisiana. She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the
Old South plantation system. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating, and reviving interest in the 1853
Twelve Years a Slave, a
slave narrative by
Solomon Northup, a free man from
New York who was
kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.