Suzanne Berne (born January 17, 1961, in Washington, D.C. ) is an American novelist known for her foreboding character studies involving unexpected domestic and psychological drama in bucolic suburban settings. Berne's debut novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood , won the 1999 Orange Prize for Fiction .
4-564: Berne attended Georgetown Day School . She was educated at Wesleyan University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop , and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Berne has taught at both Harvard University and Wellesley College . She is an associate English professor at Boston College . Berne currently lives in Boston with her husband and two daughters. Berne's debut novel , A Crime in
8-1050: Is the current Head of School. Founded in 1945 by anthropologists Philleo and Edith R. Nash, as Washington's first racially integrated school, it is known for its progressive climate and dedication to social justice. Students call teachers by their first names, and the high school allows students to leave the campus during school hours. The school has educated the children of several high-ranking government officials, including Justice Thurgood Marshall , Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg , United States Attorney General Eric Holder , United States Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen , United States Deputy Secretary of Education Jim Shelton III , Treasury Secretary Larry Summers , Texas Senator Phil Gramm , Oregon Senator Ron Wyden , Florida Congressman Kendrick Meek , Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin , Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu , Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas , as well as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson . Georgetown Day recently finished construction on
12-574: The Neighborhood , won the Orange Prize . The novel, set in 1972, is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Marsha, and chronicles the murder of a young boy in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C. , against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal. The Ghost at the Table explores the dramatic territory between two sisters' differing versions of their shared history. A Perfect Arrangement tells of
16-634: The complex and increasingly disturbing relationship between a normal suburban family and their exceptionally perfect nanny. This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1960s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Georgetown Day School Georgetown Day School ( GDS ) is an independent coeducational PK-12 school located in Washington, D.C. The school educates 1,075 elementary, middle, and high school students in northwestern Washington, D.C. Russell Shaw
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