Susan Sheehan

Susan Sheehan (née Sachsel; born August 24, 1937)[1] is an American writer.

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 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. In About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, Ben Yagoda called the article “exhaustive and ultimately exhausting.”[4]

Works

Her other works include:

Family

She is the wife of journalist Neil Sheehan, 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 live in Washington, DC.[3]

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
  2. 1 2 "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes -- Columbia University. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
  3. 1 2 "Susan Sheehan Books, Author Bio, Book Review & More at Alibris Marketplace". Alibris. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=GZF_q0jnoJcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=yagoda+%22about+town%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjujobutbbJAhUH8x4KHbTRCcwQ6AEIFDAA#v=onepage&q=exhausting&f=false


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