Author: Elizabeth Barron
Alternate names: Susan Bowden; Elizabeth Barron; Lynda Hargrave
Born: 1936
Bio: Susan Bowden was born in 1936 in Dorset, England and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Susan's formal university training was interrupted by a writing career. She primarily works in the genres of historical and suspense fiction, although she has written romance novels and a young adult novel. 

Susan has been a speaker at conferences for the Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Canadian Authors Association. She has also served as a mentor in the Manitoba Writers' Guild mentorship program. 

She has done several interviews with Peter Gzowski on "CBC Morningside," and on "Arts Tonight" with Eleanor Wachtel and has appeared as a regular opera quiz panelist on CBC's "Saturday Afternoon at the Opera."