Susan Branch

Born in St. Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California, she is the eldest of Patricia Louise (Smith) and John Patrick Stewart's eight children,{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8448409.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629085900/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8448409.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2014|website=The Boston Globe |date=October 30, 1997 |first=Patti |last=Doten |title=The Darling of Decoration}} Branch grew up in the San Fernando Valley outside of Los Angeles, California.{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8642529.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629085856/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8642529.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 29, 2014|website=The Boston Globe| date=March 1, 2001 |first=Mary |last=Grauerholz |title=At Home with Susan Branch}} This is chronicled in her 2015 memoir, The Fairy Tale Girl. Her first commercial success manifested in 1978 at the Red Door Gallery[http://www.notquitejunecleaver.com/2010/10/meet-my-special-guest-susan-branch/ Not Quite June Cleaver interview, October 2010] in Beverly Hills, California. In 1982, Branch moved from California to the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, a story told in part-two of her memoir, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams, published in 2016.{{cite news|url=http://www.countryliving.com/cooking/entertaining/susan-branch-ENTERT1007#slide-1| publisher=Country Living Magazine |date=October 2007 |first=David |last=Masello |title=Entertaining in Fall}} In 1986, the first of eleven volumes, Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen,[http://www.worldcat.org/title/heart-of-the-home-notes-from-a-vineyard-kitchen/oclc/13703067&referer=brief_results/ Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen], {{ISBN|0-316-10631-3}}, {{ISBN|978-0-316-10631-3}} was published by Hachette Book Group (then "Little, Brown and Company").[http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/authors_Susan-Branch-(1000009)_Bibliography.aspx, Hachette Book Group] In 1990, Branch's book, Christmas from the Heart of the Home[http://www.worldcat.org/title/christmas-from-the-heart-of-the-home/oclc/21559104&referer=brief_results/ Christmas from the Heart of the Home], {{ISBN|0-316-10638-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-316-10638-2}} was nominated for the James Beard Award.[http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards James Beard Award]{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SO&s_site=sanluisobispo&p_multi=SO&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=111D61274F322300&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |publisher=San Luis Obispo Tribune |date=May 24, 2006 |title=Welcome to Heart of the Home}} She lives on Martha's Vineyard with her partner Joe Hall and runs Susan Branch Studios.{{cite news|url=http://capecodlife.com/home/stories/2011/11/loves-branching |publisher=Cape Cod Home |date=November 2011| first=Julia |last=Quinn-Szcesuil |title=Love's Branching}}

Branch's book, A Fine Romance, Falling in Love with the English Countryside (2013), was discussed in an article in Publishers Weekly{{cite web|last=Rosen|first=Judith|title=Susan Branch's Bestseller Pubbed by Hybrid|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/59086-susan-branch-s-bestseller-pubbed-by-hybrid.html|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=2013-09-13}} both for the velocity of its sales (going into 3rd printing) and how an established author has taken risks by choosing a hybrid publishing route. Her latest book, Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams, currently a New York Times Bestseller,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/06/01/travel/?_r=0|title=New York Times Books, Bestsellers|work=The New York Times |date=June 2016}} was published by her own imprint, Spring Street Publishing. Her entry into self publishing is discussed in a recent article in Publishers Weekly.{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/70097-susan-branch-s-fine-romance-with-self-publishing.html|title=Susan Branch's 'Fine Romance' with Self-Publishing|access-date=2016-06-26}}

• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13703067 Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen] (1986)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17842356 Vineyard Seasons] (1988)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21559104 Christmas from the Heart of the Home] (1990)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28672635 Baby Love] (1992)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29713868 Love from the Heart of the Home] (1994)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31412165 The Summer Book] (1995)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32589586 Christmas Joy] (1995)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36109188 Days from the Heart of the Home] (1996)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39262172 Sweets to the Sweet] (1998)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43715708 Girlfriends Forever] (2000)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48652843 Christmas Memories] (2001)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54537407 Autumn] (2004)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849593261 A Fine Romance][https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849593261 , Falling in Love with the English Countryside] (2013)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/915496269 Fairy Tale Girl] (2015)
• [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936002627 Martha's Vineyard, Isle of Dreams] (2016)

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• [http://www.susanbranch.com/ Official website]
• Goodreads, [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55081.Susan_Branch Susan Branch]
• [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55081.Susan_Branch Spring Street Publishing]
• [http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/home-3/susan-branch/2 Susan Branch, At Home with the Queen of Cozy, Yankee Magazine, 2013]

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