About Suzanne Stroh
Suzanne Stroh is an award-winning screenwriter and story consultant. Her screen credits include the African dual-language feature film, OKA!, directed by Lavinia Currier. Her period drama SCOTCH VERDICT will be developed at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in April, 2015. Selected at the prestigious Woods Hole and Oaxaca festivals in 2014, SCOTCH VERDICT was awarded best screenplay at the 2015 Berlin Independent Film Festival; best unproduced screenplay at the 2013 Madrid International Film Festival; and best historical screenplay at the 2014 Richmond International Film Festival. Suzanne serves on the Board of Advisors of The World Memory Film Project.
She is the author of TABOU, a quintet of interlocking novels. Books 1, 2 and 3, Patience, Jocelyn and Sylvie, are currently available from Publish Green. Publication of books 4 and 5 will conclude the novel cycle in 2016. TABOU recently received notice in The Archive (The Journal of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, No. 52, Winter 2014, p. 11).
Suzanne Stroh’s comic trial story “Quiet Enjoyment,” set on Antigua, is published in Defying Gravity (Washington: Paycock Press, 2014). It will also appear in Suzanne’s forthcoming collection, Daughter of Michigan and Other Stories.
Suzanne also writes and edits nonfiction. She is translating Francesco Rapazzini’s 2004 biography of the “Red Duchess,” Élisabeth de Gramont (1975-1954), from French into English. With Jean-Loup Combemale she has transcribed and translated the “lost” recording of American painter Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), debunking myths that persisted about the expatriate Modernist for half a century. She is the editor of Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer, forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press in Fall 2015.
A working mother and family enterprise specialist, her case studies of the world’s most successful family businesses include “Salvatore Ferragamo” and “Clarks at a Crossroads” and “Mitchells,” filmed and written with Professor John A. Davis of the Harvard Business School. More cases will soon be published in John Davis’s upcoming books, Building Family Wealth and Growth and Unity: What Family Business Dynasties Teach About Long-Term Success.
As a Research Fellow, Suzanne Stroh studies leadership of the family enterprise and family wealth paths for the Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise, dedicated to the real issues facing family enterprises. Offering research, education, conferences and programs, the Cambridge Institute is a place where progressive members of family enterprises come to learn, exchange ideas, develop themselves and position their enterprises to be not only successful, but sustainable over generations.
Marking its 25th anniversary, Suzanne’s current projects for CIFE include developing a list of the world’s top 25 leaders in family enterprise under age 50 and Family Spirit, the groundbreaking celebration of 20 pioneering business families undertaken in partnership with Wm. Grant & Sons, makers of Glenfiddich whisky. Family Spirit will be published by Chronicle Books on May 11, 2015. The Cambridge Institute is part of the advisory firm founded by Professor Davis, Cambridge Family Enterprise Group.
Suzanne’s social commentary has appeared in Vanity Fair, on OurChart.com and in I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from the NPR Story Project edited by Paul Auster. Suzanne is also a field medic and wilderness first responder reporting from her east coast base in the northern Virginia countryside. Her entertaining blog The Gear Loft offers independent product reviews and advice for backcountry adventurers, outdoor enthusiasts and savvy travelers.