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Austrian-born American writer (born 1937)
Susan Sheehan (née Sachsel ; born August 24, 1937)
[1] is an Austrian-born
American writer.
Biography
Born in
Vienna , Austria,
[1] she won the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1983 for her book
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
[2] The book details the experiences of a young
New York City woman diagnosed with
schizophrenia .
[1] Portions of the book were published in
The New Yorker , for which she has written frequently since 1961 as a staff writer.
[1] Her work as a contributing writer has also appeared in
The New York Times and
Architectural Digest .
[3]
In 1986, Sheehan published in The New Yorker "A Missing Plane," a three-part series about the
U.S. Army 's attempt to identify the remains of the victims of a 1944 airplane crash.
Her husband was the journalist
Neil Sheehan , whom she urged to copy what became known as the
Pentagon Papers for the Times with her help,
[4] and who also won a
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
[1] for
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam in 1989.
[2] Sheehan and her husband lived in
Washington, D.C.
[3]
Works
Her other works include:
1967 Ten Vietnamese
1976 A welfare mother
1978 A prison and a prisoner
1984 Kate Quinton's days
1986 A missing plane
1993 Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
[1]
2002 The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits (co-written with Howard Means)
Further reading
References
^
a
b
c
d
e
f Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999).
"Profiles of the winners: General non-fiction" .
Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners . pp.
268–269 .
ISBN
1-57356-111-8 .
^
a
b
"Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" . The Pulitzer Prizes -- Columbia University. Retrieved 2008-02-28 .
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a
b
"Susan Sheehan Books, Author Bio, Book Review & More at Alibris Marketplace" . Alibris. Retrieved 26 April 2013 .
^ Sanger, David E.; Scott, Janny; Harlan, Jennifer; Gallagher, Brian (June 9, 2021).
" 'We're Going to Publish': An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers" . The New York Times . Archived from
the original on June 13, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2023 .
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