Susan Crites Price is the author or co-author of six books including The Giving Family: Raising Our Children to Help Others and the just issued Washington, DC, Free and Dirt Cheap, a Frommer's guide. With her husband Tom, Susan co-authored The Working Parents Help Book (Peterson's, 1994, rev. ed., 1996), a practical guide to juggling kids and careers. It won a Parents' Choice Award and was a selection of the Scholastic Book Club. Susan has been interviewed about parenting issues on "Oprah," "Today" and a wide variety of other television and radio broadcasts and by many newspapers and magazines.Along with her writing career, Susan has worked with numerous philanthropic families through her current position as the vice president of the National Center for Family Philanthropy. She is a frequent keynote speaker to groups around the country. During an 18-year career as a freelance writer, she wrote for such publications as Working Mother, Family Life, The Washington Post and Washingtonian, and several Internet sites.