Susan Playfair
Susan Roberta Playfair was an American author, who wrote two books on the industry and food of the US region of New England.
Biography
Playfair was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on August 23, 1940, and grew up in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where she was a lifeguard and came to love the land and the sea of New England. She attended Bard College, and got a degree in fine arts. She attended a number of schools for design and fashion, and after working on Wall Street and in Boston as a stockbroker, she opened up a clothes store in Gloucester, Massachusetts, before becoming a fashion designer. She designed clothes under the name Playfair, and sold them to Bergdorf Goodman and others. In the 1980s she moved into interior design for commercial clients.Later in life, Playfair wrote two books on the landscape, seascape, and industry of New England. Both were published by the University Press of New England: Vanishing Species: Saving the Fish, Sacrificing the Fishermen, and America's Founding Fruit: The Cranberry in a New Environment. She died on February 7, 2021, at the age of 80, after a brief illness.