Susan Charlotte Faludi is an American feminist, journalist, and author. Born on April 18, 1959, she is acclaimed for her impactful writings and journalism. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991 for her report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores, Inc., which the Pulitzer Prize committee praised for depicting the "human costs of high finance".

Faludi was born to a Jewish family in Queens, New York, and grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York. Her mother was a homemaker and journalist, while her father, a photographer, emigrated from Hungary and survived the Holocaust. Susan graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson. She has worked as a journalist for prominent publications such as The New York Times and Miami Herald.

In 2016, she was awarded the Kirkus Prize for her book In the Darkroom, which was also a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.