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Susan Ertz was an Anglo-American writer born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England in 1887.
* She moved back and forth between both countries during her childhood but chose to live in England when she was 18.
* She married British Army soldier, Major John Ronald McCrindle in London in 1932.
* She is known for her "sentimental tales of genteel life in the country."
* A common theme running through her work involves a female character "who is thrust out on her own from a sheltered environment into a vaguely hostile external world with which she is initially unprepared to cope. Her coming to terms with this hostile world provides the fictional interest of [her] novels."
* The Proselyte, the story of a London woman who marries a Mormon missionary and moves with him to Utah, was one of her most highly praised books.
* Ertz's Woman Alive is a science fiction novel set after all women other than the titular heroine have perished in a plague.
* One of her later works, In the Cool of the Day, was the source of an eponymous movie in 1963, starring Jane Fonda, Peter Finch, and Angela Lansbury.
* Ertz died in Kent, England in 1985 at the age of 98.