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Susanne Dunlap is an author of historical fiction for adults and young adults. A graduate of Smith College (AB, 1976) with a PhD in Music History from Yale University (1999), Dunlap began by concentrating on musical themes for her books. Her first novel, Emilie's Voice, takes place in the musical world of Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Jean-Baptiste Lully, in the court of Louis XIV. Liszt's Kiss takes the reader to Paris during the 1832 cholera epidemic, and the turbulent romance between Franz Liszt and Marie d'Agoult.

In 2009, Dunlap published her first young adult historical novel, The Musician's Daughter, is set in the vibrant musical world of Haydn's Vienna. It is a Bank Street Children's Book of the Year, as well as being nominated for The Utah Beehive Award and the Missouri Gateway Readers Award. With her next young adult novel, Dunlap has taken a step away from music to explore the coming of age of Anastasia Romanova against the backdrop of war and revolution, in Anastasia's Secret. In 2011, Bloomsbury USA Children's will publish In the Shadow of the Lamp, about a young parlormaid who stows away to go with Florence Nightingale and her nurses to the Crimea.

Dunlap was born in Darby, PA, on February 19, 1955, and grew up in Buffalo, NY, where she attended high school at The Buffalo Seminary.