Susan Vaught
{{Short description|American author}}
Susan Vaught (born October 22, 1965){{Cite web |title=Vaught, Susan 1965- |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/vaught-susan-1965 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Encyclopedia.com}} is an American author and neuropsychologist.
Biography
Vaught received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Mississippi and a Master of Science from Vanderbilt University. In 1991, she graduated from Vanderbilt with a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology and Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities Research.{{Cite web |date=2013-02-07 |title=Dr. Susan Redmond-Vaught |url=http://wkpic.org/dr-susan-vaught/,%20http://wkpic.org/dr-susan-vaught/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Western Kentucky Psychology Internship Consortium |language=en-US}} Since graduation, she has worked as a neuropsychologist, including serving as the Director of Neuropsychology and the Clinical Director for a hospital in Tennessee.
Vaught is autistic.{{cite web |last1=Phan |first1=Karena |title=On a Mission |url=https://www.timeforkids.com/g56/on-mission/ |website=Time for Kids |access-date=11 March 2023 |date=17 May 2019}} She presently lives in Kentucky with her wife.{{cite web |last1=Vaught |first1=Susan |title=Autobiography |url=http://www.susanvaught.com/about/ |website=Susan Vaught |access-date=11 March 2023}}
Awards and honors
In 1996, Vaught received the SEAAMR Richard B. Dillard Award For Research In The Field Of Developmental Disabilities.
Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy (2015),{{Cite web |title=Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781481422765J&name=Footer_Davis_Probably_Is_Crazy |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Junior Library Guild}} Super Max and the Mystery of Thornwood’s Revenge (2017),{{Cite web |title=Super Max and the Mystery of Thornwood's Revenge by Susan Vaught |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781481486835J&name=Super_Max_and_the_Mystery_of_Thornwoods_Revenge |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Junior Library Guild}} and Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse (2019),{{Cite web |title=Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught |url=https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/book/landing/detailedview?itemcode=9781534425019J&name=Me_and_Sam_Sam_Handle_the_Apocalypse |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Junior Library Guild}} are Junior Library Guild selections. Bank Street College of Education named Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy one of the "Best Children’s Books of 2016."{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Best Children's Books of the Year |url=https://d2mguk73h8xisw.cloudfront.net/media/filer_public/filer_public/2016/03/16/2016nine-to-twelve_1101.pdf |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Bank Street College of Education}} Trigger received a starred review from Booklist{{Cite web |date=2006-12-01 |title=Trigger |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Trigger-Susan-Vaught/pid=1823616 |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Booklist}} and Publishers Weekly.{{Cite web |date= |title=Trigger by Susan Vaught |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781582349206 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Publishers Weekly}} Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry received Booklist,{{Cite web |last=Phelan |first=Carolyn |date=July 2016 |title=Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Things-Too-Huge-to-Fix-by-Saying-Sorry-Susan-Vaught/pid=8147101 |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Booklist}} Kirkus Reviews,{{Cite web |date=June 1, 2016 |title=Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/susan-vaught/things-too-huge-to-fix-by-saying-sorry/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Kirkus Reviews}} and Publishers Weekly.{{Cite web |date= |title=Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781481422796 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Publishers Weekly}} Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse received a starred review from Booklist.{{Cite web |last=Peters |first=John |date=2019-04-01 |title=Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Me-and-Sam-Sam-Handle-the-Apocalypse-/pid=9714991 |access-date=2023-01-22}} Publishers Weekly named it one of the best books published in the summer of 2019.{{Cite web |title=Best Books Summer 2019 from Publishers Weekly |url=https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/summer-reads-2019/middle-grade |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Publishers Weekly}} Together We Grow received starred reviews from Booklist,{{Cite web |last=Owen |first=Maryann |date=2020-03-15 |title=Together We Grow |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Together-We-Grow-/pid=9730745 |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Booklist}} Kirkus Reviews,{{Cite web |date=2020-02-09 |title=Together We Grow |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/susan-vaught/together-we-grow/ |access-date=2023-01-22 |website=Kirkus Reviews}} Publishers Weekly,{{Cite web |date= |title=Together We Grow by Susan Vaught |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781534405868 |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Publishers Weekly}} and School Library Journal.{{Cite web |last=Anton |first=Etta |date=2020-05-01 |title=Together We Grow |url=https://www.slj.com/review/together-we-grow |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=School Library Journal}}
Publications
= Children's =
- Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy (2015)
- Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry (2016)
- Super Max and the Mystery of Thornwood's Revenge (2017)
- Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse (2019)
- Together We Grow, illustrated by Kelly Murphy (2020)
= Young adult =
- Fat Tuesday (2004)
- Stormwitch (2005)
- Trigger (2006)
- Big Fat Manifesto (2007)
- Exposed (2008)
- Assassin's Apprentice (2010)
- Going Underground (2011)
- Freaks Like Us (2012)
- Insanity (2014)
== L.O.S.T. series ==
The L.O.S.T. series was co-written with R. S. Collins and Debbie Federici.
- L.O.S.T. (2004)
- Shadowqueen (2005)
- Witch Circle (2006)
External links'
- [http://susanvaught.com/ Official website]
References
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Category:University of Mississippi alumni
Category:Vanderbilt University alumni
Category:American neuropsychologists
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American writers with disabilities
Category:LGBTQ writers with disabilities
Category:American LGBTQ novelists