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Susan Lukas (1940-2008) was a novelist, playwright, ombudsman, social worker, psychotherapist, and painter. Early life and education[edit source] Born to Hugo and Rose Ries in Evanston, Illinois, Lukas went to Beverly Hills High School and UCLA, majoring in Philosophy. Career[edit source] In the 1960s, Lukas became associate director of the Committee for Democratic Voters (started by Eleanor Roosevelt and Ed Koch). The first of her three novels, FAT EMILY[1], was published in 1974. STEREOPTICON[2], the second, was published in 1978. She then worked as the ombudsman for Westchester County, New York, government. And in 1981, her third novel MORGANA'S FAULT[3]) was published. In the early 1980s, Lukas trained at the Hunter College School of Social Work. Her final thesis there became the book, WHERE TO START AND WHAT TO ASK[4], a primer for beginning psychotherapists. As of 2024, it had sold 200,000 copies. Lukas practiced as a psychotherapist in New York City and Nyack, NY, between 1984 and 2007, at which point she became a student of painting at the Art Students' League of New York. Personal life[edit source] In 1962, she met and married television producer Christopher Lukas in Los Angeles. The couple moved to New York City a year later. In 1968, after giving birth to her first daughter, Megan, Lukas began her career in novel-writing. In 1971, Gabriela, the couple's second daughter, was born. The family moved to San Francisco in 1973, where Lukas served as a film reviewer for CBS Radio. They returned to the New York area in 1978. In 2008, after an operation for atrial fibrillation, Lukas died of sudden cardiac arrest.