Susan Washburn Buckley

SUSAN WASHBURN BUCKLEY is a New York based writer, editor, and consultant with a specialty in American history. She has written five YA books on American history with co-author Elspeth Leacock, including the award-winning TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM, an as-told-to story that they co-authored with Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest marcher on the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. She has written many children’s books, was the general editor of Houghton Mifflin’s We the People textbook series, and was the founding editor of AppleSeeds magazine. EATING WITH PETER: A GASTRONOMIC JOURNEY is her first adult book. This series of stories recounts her adventures in food—cooking it, finding it, eating it, buying it, writing about it—over 25 years of rollicking travel from the souks of Morocco to their kitchen in Manhattan. Susan has been fortunate to work with many talented illustrators including Rodica Prato, Randy Jones, P. J. Loughran, and Dana Catharine.