Susan Howatch is a
British novelist who has penned bestselling mysteries, family sagas, and
other novels. Howatch was born in Surrey, England. She began writing as
a teen and published her first book when she moved to the United States
in 1964. Howatch found global success first with her five sagas and
then with her novels about the Church of England in the twentieth
century. She has now returned to live in Surrey.
