Susan Larson

Susan Larson is the host of The Reading Life on WWNO, New Orleans’ NPR affiliate, the former book editor of The New Orleans Times-Picayune and the author of The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans. She is the past president of the Women’s National Book Association of New Orleans, which presents the Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, and she is a former member of the boards of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival and The New Orleans Public Library. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community.