Editing Susan Howatch (section)

==Later life==
According to her publisher Michael Korda, Howatch was never comfortable with publishing popular fiction, and felt that it didn't satisfy her intellectual and moral needs. He cites this as a reason for her shift away from popular fiction to more serious writing. For Korda, she became the only best-selling novelist to walk away from her own success or to leave her publisher because "he had sold too many copies of her books."<ref name=":0"/>

Howatch has used some of the profits from her novels to found an academic post with the title 'Starbridge Lecturer in Natural Science and Theology' in the Faculty of Divinity at [[Cambridge University]], devoted to linking the fields of science and religion. The first holder of this post was the Reverend Dr. Fraser Watts, a psychologist and theologian. Dr. Watts was succeeded in 2014 by the Revd Dr. Andrew Davison, who previously taught at [[Westcott House, Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-andrew-davison|title=Dr Andrew Davison|date=23 July 2013}}</ref>

Howatch is an Honorary Fellow of [[King's College, London]],<ref>[https://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/history/fellows.html Fellows of King's]</ref> the University of Wales at Lampeter, and [[Sarum College]] in Salisbury.<ref>[http://ferndalechurches.org.uk/news/story/graduation_in_sarum/ Graduation in Sarum]</ref> In 2012, Howatch was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from [[Hope College]].<ref>[http://hope.edu/2012/05/30/hope-college-presents-honorary-degree-author-susan-howatch Hope College Presents Honorary Degree to Author Susan Howatch] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606082427/http://www.hope.edu/2012/05/30/hope-college-presents-honorary-degree-author-susan-howatch |date=6 June 2012 }}</ref> She currently resides in [[Leatherhead]].<ref>Idem.</ref>