Suzanne Clauser

Clauser was born on August 25, 1929, and grew up in Long Island.{{Cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/dayton/179648066|title=Suzanne P. Clauser|date=17 April 2016|work=Dayton Daily News|access-date=8 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms124.pdf|title=Suzanne Clauser Papers|website=Wright|access-date=7 August 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34674406/|title=Ideas People: Talking With Suzanne Clauser|date=10 May 2012|work=Dayton Daily News|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}} Clauser studied literature at Indiana University Bloomington and graduated in 1951. She married Charles Clauser in 1951 and in 1954, when her husband earned a Fulbright Grant to study in Burma and Rangoon, she went with him.

Clauser moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, when her husband got a job at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10652091/|title=Author Credits Ohio Folks for Her Writing Success|last=Winters|first=Rita|date=12 November 1972|work=The Star Press|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}} Once in Yellow Springs, Clauser began to write and soon published a story about their married experiences in Asia. Clauser became interested in a class taught at Antioch College that was taught by Rod Serling, a visiting faculty member. Serling sent one of her scripts to Hollywood and her script was picked up by producers of Bonanza. The first episode that she wrote and was produced was titled "Woman of Fire" and released in 1964.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34674090/|title=Suzanne Clauser Writes Scripts|date=7 May 1972|work=The News Leader|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}} She went on to write 11 Bonanza episodes.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34672143/|title=Script Ohio|last=Bowman|first=Bob|date=1 October 1978|work=Dayton Daily News|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}} Clauser was the only woman to regularly write for Bonanza.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/obituaries-people-news/suzanne-clauser-dead-dies-bonanza-writer-1201754160/|title=Suzanne Clauser, 'Bonanza' Writer, Dies at 86|last=Sage|first=Alyssa|date=2016-04-15|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-08-08}}

Clauser's television movie, Pioneer Woman, won a 1973 Western Heritage Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Clauser's screen adaptation of her novel of the same name, A Girl Named Sooner, premiered in 1975 at Vevay.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26564218/|title='Sooner' Premiere Draws Stars, Tears|last=Munson|first=Anita|date=14 June 1975|work=Muncie Evening Press|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}} It was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. Her adaptation of Little Women showed on NBC in 1978. Her script for the television movie, The Pride of Jesse Hallam won an award for the best original television play in 1981. Christmas Snow (1986) earned the title of best children's program at the 1987 Golden Gate Awards.

While Clauser wrote, she continued to work as a housewife in Yellow Springs. She was part of a writer's group in Yellow Springs that she joined in 1962, and which she felt had strong influence on her writing. She retired from scriptwriting in the 1990s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34672654/|title=Veteran Writer Adopts Novel Approach|last=Dempsey|first=Laura|date=8 April 2001|work=Dayton Daily News|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}} and {{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34672736/|title=Clauser: She Learned the Hard Way That 'Form Matters'|date=8 April 2001|work=Dayton Daily News|access-date=7 August 2019|via=Newspapers.com}}

Clauser died April 11, 2016, in her home in Yellow Springs.

• Bonanza (1964-1971)
• Pioneer Woman (1973)
• A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
• Little Women (television 1978)
• The Pride of Jesse Hallam (1981)
• Christmas Snow (1986)

• {{Cite book|title=A Girl Named Sooner|publisher=Avon Books|year=1972|isbn=9780380002160|location=New York|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/girlnamedsooner00clau}}
• {{Cite book|title=East of Mandalay: A Novel|publisher=Disc-Us Books|year=2000|isbn=9781584441175|location=Sarasota, Florida}}

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• [https://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms124.pdf Suzanne Clauser Papers]

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