Susan Shapiro is the American author of twelve books, including The Byline Bible, Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Only as Good as Your Word, Lighting Up, Speed Shrinking, and What's Never Said, and coauthor of The Bosnia List and the New York Times bestseller Unhooked. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Nation, The Daily Beast, Salon.com, Oprah.com, Glamour, and Marie Claire magazines.Shapiro was on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and has been an award-winning writing professor at The New School and New York University since 1993. Her writing and publishing advice to students was compiled in The Byline Bible.She is married to TV/film writer Charlie Rubin.