Susan Beth Pfeffer: A Talented Poet

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A Talented Writer

Susan Beth Pfeffer, a talented writer who has worked her hardest to be what she has become, a writer that makes readers happy to be reading her books. Born on February 2nd, 1948 at New York City from a middle-class family and raised in Woodmere, NY has one older brother. Her family originally lived in Queens before moving to a city called Woodmere in Long Island Southeastern from New York. Pfeffer’s father, Leo, a lawyer and her mom Freda Plotkin, a secretary. “Pfeffer once noted that she had “the best of all environmental childhoods.” (encyclopedia.com) Ever since the first grade, Pfeffer knew she wanted to become a writer when she saw her name on the dedication page of the book her dad put together.

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