Susan Brind Morrow is an author, translator, and linguist living in New York State. She was born in 1958 to David and Shirley Brind. The family, which included two brothers and a sister, lived in Geneva, New York, in the Finger Lakes region. At 16, Morrow enrolled in Barnard College where she studied Greek and Egyptian hieroglyphs. She later attended Columbia University where she continued her studies in classical literatures and languages. She married journalist Lance Morrow in 1998. She was a Fellow of the Crane-Rogers Foundation in Egypt from 1988-1990. Her books include The Names of Things (1997) and Wolves and Honey (2004). These two memoirs describe her experiences as an archeologist and linguist in Egypt, her extensive travels, and her family life in New York, including the deaths of two of her siblings.
A list of her publications includes:
- Morrow, Susan Brind. The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert. New York: River Head Books,
1997.
- Morrow, Susan Brind. Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
From the guide to the Susan Brind Morrow Collection, R28. 1., 1925-2005 and undated, (Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University)
