Suzy Becker

Suzanne "Suzy" Becker (born 1962) is an American author and illustrator known for books such as All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat. As of 2023, she was illustrating for The New Yorker.

Early life Becker grew up near Philadelphia. She graduated from Brown University in 1984 with bachelor's degrees in economics and international relations, and spent her first summer out of college biking across the United States. After a brief period as a second grade teacher at the American School of Barcelona, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to start her writing career.

Career Becker is best known for her 1990 internationally bestselling book All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, which sold two million copies and spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, with several at #1.

Becker began as an advertising copywriter in Boston. The job allowed her to hone her talents for insightful and irreverent writing, which would later become her trademark in her books and cartoons. In 1987, she founded her greeting card company, the Widget Factory, she founded Ride FAR, the first U.S. HIV/AIDS bike-a-thon, which has occurred biannually since its inception.

Books Becker wrote her first book, All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat , at age 27. The book made The New York Times best-seller list, where it remained for eight months. As of 2006, the book had sold 1.6 million copies. Her second book, The All Better Book, was inspired by her work in elementary schools and children's solutions to problems. Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (1999–2000) Work has been commissioned by the National Audubon Society, American Museum of Natural History, National Geographic Society, and the Environmental Defense Fund.