Susan B. Johnson

Susan B. Johnson is a novelist, playwright, journalist, and historian.

After winning a national playwright's competition, her play Finders Weepers was published (Stagedoor Press, 1993) and has been performed in theaters across the country. A second play, Another Man's Shoes, won honorable mention in Ohio State University's 2002 Eileen Hackert Playwriting Competition.

For three years she wrote "Washed Up," a weekly column for the Pulitzer Prize winning Georgia Gazette, and for four years she wrote "The Grammar Game," a weekly column she created for the Savannah Morning News.

Her short stories, essays, and articles have appeared in a wide variety of national and regional publications such as Women's Voices for Change (womensvoicesforchange.org) and Yachting Magazine.

Both her novel, Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting (Bonaventture Books) and her non-fiction work, Savannah's Little Crooked Houses: If These Walls Could Talk (History Press) were published in 2007. As a result, she was nominated for 2007 Georgia Author of the Year.

Susan lives and writes in a 215-year-old cottage in the historic heart of Savannah, Georgia.