She had four entries in the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series, plus an entry in volume 137 of the "Children's Literature Review" series..

Many of her books were about teenage(?) girls in the Middle East.

She lived some of her later years in Tennessee.

The Scranton Times had a paywall, but here's another obit.

https://www.lawrenceeyoungfuneralhome.com/obituary/suzanne-f-staples
(with photo)

Newbery Honor Award-Winning Author Suzanne Fisher Staples Dies, Age 76

Award-winning author and journalist Suzanne Fisher Staples died at her home in Nicholson (Pennsylvania), on April 29, 2022 from complications due to pancreatic cancer. She was 76 years old.

Born August 27, 1945 in Philadelphia to Robert and Helen Fisher, Staples worked as a news reporter and editor for United Press International in Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, New York, and Washington DC. She later worked as foreign news editor for the Washington Post.

She returned to Pakistan with USAID (United States Agency for International Development) to help design a literary project for poor rural women.

Staples’ experience with those young women was the basis for her award-winning young adult novels set in Asia. Her first book, Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind, was published in 1989 and earned the author a Newbery Honor Award, as well as several other international and national literary awards.. Her follow-up novels, Haveli, Shiva’s Fire, Under the Persimmon Tree, and The House of Djinn also garnered many literary accolades. Staples also penned Dangerous Skies and The Green Dog, both set in the US.

Following her time in Asia, Staples returned to the US and settled in Nicholson, PA, near where she was raised on Chapman Lake. She graduated from Lakeland High School, and attended Keystone College, LaPlume, PA before receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA.

Staples worked throughout the world as a writing teacher and mentor, sat on the boards of several national literary organizations, and founded The Gathering literature conference at Keystone College.

The recipient of many awards and citations, including The Margaretta Belin Chamberlin Award, the Keystone College Distinguished Scholar Award, and the Keystonian Award for Outstanding Keystone College Alumnae, Staples was a trustee of her alma mater, where she served as Scholar in Residence, and was a member of the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania.

She is survived by her husband, Wayne Harley, her sister Karen Bifano of Terre Haute, IN, several nieces and nephews, and her beloved poodles...

(snip)

https://www.legacy.com/funeral-homes/obituaries/name/suzanne-staples-obituary?pid=202346318&v=batesville&view=guestbook
(some condolence notes)

https://us.macmillan.com/author/suzannefisherstaples
(brief autobiographical essay)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/scholarly-magazines/staples-suzanne-fisher-1945-suzanne-fisher
(resume, with an article about her books)

https://www.google.com/search?q=Suzanne+Fisher+Staples+books&sca_esv=581771196&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoqoCQtb-CAxX1FFkFHR_7D6sQ0pQJegQIAxAG&biw=1920&bih=925&dpr=1
(book covers)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/suzanne-fisher-staples/
(seven Kirkus reviews)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128454.Suzanne_Fisher_Staples
(reader reviews)

WRITINGS:

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind, Knopf (New York, NY), 1989.
("Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family’s honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart?")

Haveli, Knopf (New York, NY), 1993.
("The world of...Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law.")

Dangerous Skies, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1996, published as Storm, Julia MacRae (London, England), 1998.
("Along the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like brother and sister, they are bound by surname, but not by skin color. And just as Buck has come to rely on Tunes, Tunes has come to trust that even in a place where race can mean so much, their friendship will remain as dependable as the tides....But then the horrifying events of one spring afternoon tear them apart—and change their world forever. Desperate to hang on to the thing that he values most, Buck struggles to uphold their friendship—without realizing that his efforts are pushing Tunes farther and farther away.")

Shiva's Fire, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2000.
("In India, Parvati, a talented dancer with supernatural powers, is invited to Madras to study with a great master and sacrifices friends and family for her art.")

The Green Dog: A Mostly True Story, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2003..
("All Suzanne can think of is her dream dog -- black-and-tan, with long silky fur and deep chocolate eyes. So when the perfect dog shows up one day, she is overjoyed. But Jeff, the dog, has a nose for trouble, and keeping him will be more difficult than Suzanne ever imagined.")

Under the Persimmon Tree, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2005.
("Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman, Elaine, whose Islamic name is Nusrat, is also on her own. She waits out the war in Peshawar, Pakistan, teaching refugee children under the persimmon tree in her garden while her Afghan doctor husband runs a clinic in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan."...)

Under the Same Stars, 2007;

The House of Djinn, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 2008.
("It has been ten years since Shabanu...spoiler")
Callie's Paradox, 2012
("Callie loves her dog Lulah, soccer, star-gazing, her friend Mariette, and her far-from-perfect family. But she is struggling to discover what she believes in. Her parents and her church tell her there are right and wrong answers to everything – all she has to do is believe. Callie knows from being a soccer player that life is more complicated than that: the truth is more often made up of things that contradict each other...")