title: Susan Duncan
text: # Susan Duncan
  
  Susan Elizabeth Duncan (born 1951) is an Australian author, a former journalist and former editor of The Australian Women's Weekly and New Idea.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999, Duncan had a mastectomy and chemotherapy. A cancer survivor, she is an active supporter of breast cancer awareness.
  
  She has been married twice. Her first husband died from a brain tumour. Duncan lives in New South Wales with her current husband, Bob. They have homes at Pittwater and the mid-north coast of NSW. The Pittwater home, on Lovett Bay, is called Tarrangaua and was built for poet Dorothea Mackellar in 1925.
  
  