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Sam Sussman is the author of the debut novel Boy From the North Country, to be published by Penguin Press in September, 2025. Sam previously won the BAFTA New Writing Award and wrote the Harper’s Magazine memoir, “The Silent Type: On (Possibly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son.”

Boy From the North Country has received advanced praise from Tony Kushner, who says it is a work of “stunning poetic force, revelatory insight, heartbreak and wisdom” and David Yaffe, author of Like A Complete Unknown, who says, “This book is a monumental event for anyone who cares about Dylan. More meaningfully, the book transforms into an emotionally moving story of what it means to love a mother and be a son. Sussman has written one of the Great Millennial Novels and proved himself an inheritor of Dylan’s lyrical tradition.”

Originally from the Hudson Valley, Sam has lived in Jerusalem, Berlin, and the U.K. He graduated with a B.A from Swarthmore and M.Phil from Oxford. Sam has taught writing and literature seminars in the U.K, India, and Chile and participated in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature three times. He lives in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan and his native Hudson Valley.

Sam is represented by Peter Steinberg and Yona Levin at United Talent Agency in the U.S. and Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown in the U.K.

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