A Gemini in every way, Susan Holloway Scott was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in northern New Jersey, in an area rich with colonial American history. She graduated from Northern Valley Regional High School, and after a brief sojourn in art school, she realized her talents lay more with studying other people's paintings than in creating her own. She graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in art history, which combined her three great loves -- history, writing, and art -- into one delightful package..