Family Spirit published by Chronicle Books

May 16

Suzanne Stroh is lead researcher for book about multigenerational success in family business Here’s a review in The New York Times of my handsome new book, Family Spirit. It grew out of the year-long research project I worked on with John Davis and Florence Tsai of Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise in partnership with the

Mother of Presidents Marries Lesbians!

Dec 10

Mother of Presidents Marries Lesbians! Approaching the winter solstice this month, pagan rites and marriage rites are both on my mind, heeding Scott Fitzgerald who advised creative people to be passionate about reconciling opposites.   Cosmology has bled cinematically into these musings, in the form of INTERSTELLAR by Christopher Nolan (the love child of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

Brave Hearts and Coronets

Sep 5

My new story set in London and Chicago is inspired by efforts to end inheritance inequality in Britain.

May Ball, 1894

Apr 12

Join me 119 years ago in the Paris ballroom of the Duke and Duchess de Gramont, where Consuelo Vanderbilt is making her “social début.”

Adventures in Translating

Nov 24

I’ve begun a new literary adventure, and I look forward to sharing it with you in the year to come. I’ll be translating the raucous biography of an incredible woman, Élisabeth de Gramont, from French into English.

NAZI SCIENTIST and the Household Paradox

May 27

Every Memorial Day reminds me of our big household paradox. My spouse and film production partner, Amy Gerber, is only three years younger than I am, and yet we are a generation apart. How about that for a slice of “This American Life”?