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American retired author (born 1948)

Susan Beth Pfeffer (born February 17, 1948) is a retired American author best known for young adultscience fiction.

After writing for 35 years, she received wider notice for her series of post-apocalyptic novels, officially titled "The Life As We Knew It Series", but often called "The Last Survivors" or "Moon Crash" series, some of which have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Background

Pfeffer was born in New York City, the daughter of Leo Pfeffer, a lawyer and professor, and his wife, Freda nee Plotkin, a secretary.^[1] She is the first cousin of fellow children's book author Ellen Conford.^[2] Pfeffer's family lived in Queens before moving to the suburbs of Long Island.

She began writing stories as a child.

She published her first book, Just Morgan, in 1970, while she was a senior at New York University.^[3] After college, she moved to Middletown, New York, where sh