Randy Susan Meyers – Internationally Bestselling Author

ABOUT RANDY SUSAN MEYERS 

Randy Susan Meyers was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she quickly moved from playing with dolls to incessantly reading, spending most of her time at the Kensington Branch Library. Early on she developed a penchant for books rooted in social issues, her early favorites being Karen and The Family Nobody Wanted. Shortly after, she moved onto Jubilee and The Diary of Anne Frank.

Her dreams of justice simmered at the fantastically broadminded Camp Mikan, where she went from camper to counselor, culminating in a high point when (with the help of her strongly Brooklyn-accented singing voice), she landed the role of Adelaide in the staff production of Guys and Dolls.

Soon after her brief stage career, she was ready to change the world, starting with her protests at Tilden High and City College of New York . . .  until she left to pursue the dream in Berkeley, California, where she supported herself by selling candy, nuts, and ice cream in Bartons of San Francisco. Then, world weary at too tender an age, she returned to New York, married, and traded demonstrations for diapers.

While raising two daughters, she tended bar, co-authored a nonfiction book on parenting, ran a summer camp, and (in her all-time favorite job, other than writing) helped resurrect and run a community center.

Once her girls left for college, she threw herself deeper into social service and education by working with batterers and victims of domestic violence. Meyers’ novels are imbued with all the above, as well as her journey from obsessing over bad boys to loving a good man.

The drama of Randy Susan Meyers’ novels is informed by over twenty years working with criminal offenders and families impacted by emotional and physical violence. Meyers’ fourth novel, The Widow of Wall Street, the story of a woman’s seemingly blind love for her husband as he conquers Wall Street, and her extraordinary, perhaps foolish, loyalty during his precipitous fall, was called “compelling” by The Washington Post. Library Journal wrote, “Full of deceit, scandal, and guilt, her novel expertly explores how rising to the top only to hit rock bottom affects a family. The consequence will leave readers reeling.” Kirkus Reviews described it as “compelling, a great read, and an emotional and engrossing journey.” Publishers Weekly called The Widow of Wall Street “an engaging and sharp reflection of the rapid changes in marital dynamics over the course of the 20th century, as well as a cautionary tale about the dangers and allure of ambition in the heyday of Wall Street.” New York Times bestselling author, Melanie Benjamin wrote, “I dare you not to read Randy Susan Meyers’ The Widow of Wall Street in one big gulp,” after reading this novel. Two previous novels, The Murderer’s Daughters and Accidents of Marriage were finalists for the Mass Book Awards (2010 & 2015) and each was included as a “Must Read Book” by the Massachusetts Council of the Book, which declared, “The clear and distinctive voice of Randy Susan Meyers will have you enraptured and wanting more.” The Boston Globe called Meyers’ second novel, The Comfort of Lies “sharp and biting, and sometimes wickedly funny when the author skewers Boston’s class and neighborhood dividing lines, but it has a lot of heart, too.” Choosing Accidents of Marriage as a People “Pick of The Week,” the magazine wrote, “This novel’s unsparing look at emotional abuse and its devastating consequences gives it gravity and bite, while a glimpse into a physically damaged mind both surprises and fascinates.” The Murderer’s Daughters was called a “Knock-out Debut” by the LA Times and was a nationwide Target Book Club pick. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Randy now lives in Boston with her husband and is the mother of two grown daughters. She teaches writing seminars at Boston’s Grub Street Writers’ Center. There are currently over thirty-five foreign editions of her novels.

Read more about Randy Susan Meyers’ journey to publishing her first novel at the age of 57 in her fascinating interview with the Boston Voyager, here.