About the author
Susan Anthony-Tolbert, a native of Scranton, Pa., received her doctorate in Social Psychology from Temple University and served as a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Undergraduate Psychology Program during a tenure of thirty years at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She has numerous publications in psychology journals as well as having authored textbooks in personality, social psychology, cross-cultural psychology and observational methods. Music has always played an important part in her life. Currently, she is a free-lance harpist and marimbaist with CDs selling both locally and nationally. As a lifelong equine enthusiast, Susan continues to pursue equestrian activities on her two horses: News Flash and Harmony.
In addition to “A Modern American Christmas,” Susan has written other works of fiction. . Her novel, “When the Red Jacket Sings,” is a mystery involving musicians and missing persons as well as a Basset hound, named Sophie, and two cats, Brahms and Bartok. This story is set in Lake Wallenpaupack, Pennsylvania and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A second novel, “Harmonic,” explores a love story also set in the world of classical music. These two novels are available on line as eBooks for such e Readers as: Nook, Kindle, iPad, Kobo, and Copia . She has also written fiction for young people and the young at heart. Readers might enjoy: Ranger: Tales of the Yellow Tavern Cat; Snow Prince: The Magical Christmas Pony of Heathsville, Virginia; Keeokee: The Beautiful Swimmer; Fanny-Grace: Herself the Harp; And The Purple Pig Played Piccolo; The Adventures of McCue, My Wonder Horse; Paula: The Perfectly Pleasing Pigeon; and Merlin: The Magic Marimba. These are available through her website: www.singingcatandmule.com.
Susan has found a new passion in history. With her husband, Dorian Tolbert, she has co-authored: “The Home Front: Northumberland County, Virginia in World War II” and “Menominee, Lost Lights! The Sinking of the Unarmed Tug and its Barges off the Virginia Cast in World War II.” This last book is the third that they have co-authored together. Their first joint project was “A Quiet Glory: The Life and Times of Dr. James Skelton Gilliam of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, Virginia.” Susan has written several articles for the Bulletin of the Northumberland County Historical Society and serves on the Board of that Society. She has also written “The Mare with Mysteries, Robert E. Lee’s Other Warhorse, The Story of Lucy Long for Young Adults.” This has been written for youth and for easy reading. Susan’s other more inclusive volume, “Lucy Long, Robert E. Lee’s Other Warhorse: The Mare with Mysteries” contains more complete and detailed historical information and more biographical accounts of the important persons in the mare’s life. These are available through the Northumberland County Historical Center in Heathsville, VA.
CDs by Susan Anthony –Tolbert available from CD Baby on line or at SingingCatand: Basically Baroque, Music Enjoyed by the Colonists; Miskimon Double Concerto for Harp and Cello; Chesapeake Bay Christmas: Bells, Stars and a Little Harp; Twinkle, Twinkle Little Harp; Chesapeake Bay Suite, Songs of the Chesapeake, With Every Beat of My Harp; Chesapeake Lighthouse Sketches, Life Songs from the Depths of My Harp; Chesapeake Bay: Wind in My Strings; Women Composers Across the Centuries (Piano Music); Marimba Moments, A Musical Mosaic (featuring Ribbon of Steel composed to celebrate breast cancer warriors); When Wood Sings(Christmas Music on the Marimba); and Ye Olde Sweet Songs of Christmas Past: From My Heart and Harp (featuring both harp and marimba).