Susan Wels
is the author of books including Titanic: Legacy of the World’s Greatest Ocean Liner, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller; Pearl Harbor: America’s Darkest Day; The Olympic Spirit: 100 Years of the Games; and Stanford: Portrait of a University.
She is also an award-winning editor and freelance writer and journalist who has worked on assignment around the world. A graduate of Stanford University, she and her husband have two daughters and live in San Francisco.
Trade Books
- San Francisco: Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932-2012
Heyday Books, 2013 - SFJAZZ: The First 30 Years—Setting the Stage
Chronicle Books, 2013 - California Academy of Sciences: Architecture in Harmony with Nature. Chronicle Books 2008.
- A Day in the Life of Africa (with David Elliot Cohen and Lee Liberman).
Tides, 2003. - Pearl Harbor: America’s Darkest Day. Time-Life, 2001.
- Domain Names for Dummies. Hungry Minds, 2001.
- Stanford: Portrait of a University. Stanford Alumni Association, 1999.
- Titanic: Legacy of the World’s Greatest Ocean Liner. Time-Life, 1997.
- The Story of Mothers and Daughters. Collins, 1997.
- Jerusalem: In the Shadow of Heaven (with David Elliot Cohen and Lee Liberman). Collins, 1996.
- The Olympic Spirit: 100 Years of the Games. Southern Living, 1995.
- A Day in the Life of Thailand (with David Elliot Cohen and Steve van Beek). Collins, 1995.
- Requiem for the Heartland (with David Elliot Cohen). Collins, 1995.
- A Day in the Life of Israel (with David Elliot Cohen and Lee Liberman).
Collins, 1994. - The African Americans (with David Elliot Cohen, Charles M. Collins, Cheryl Everette, and Evelyn C. White). Viking, 1993.
- America: Then and Now (with David Elliot Cohen). HarperCollins, 1992.
- Fifteen Seconds: The Great California Earthquake of 1989 (with David Elliot Cohen, Doug Menuez, and Ron Grant Tussy). The Tides Foundation, 1989.
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