Susan Sheehan facts for kids
Susan Sheehan, born on August 24, 1937, is an American writer. She was born in Austria and later moved to the United States.
About Susan Sheehan
Susan Sheehan was born in Vienna, Austria. She became a very successful writer in the United States. In 1983, she won a special award called the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. This award is given for excellent non-fiction books.
She won the prize for her book Is There No Place on Earth for Me?. This book tells the story of a young woman in New York City who was dealing with serious mental health challenges. Parts of her book were first published in The New Yorker magazine. Susan Sheehan has written for The New Yorker often since 1961. She has also written for The New York Times and Architectural Digest.
In 1986, Susan Sheehan wrote a three-part series for The New Yorker called "A Missing Plane." This series was about the U.S. Army's efforts to identify people from a 1944 airplane crash.
Her husband was a journalist named Neil Sheehan. Susan helped him with his important work, including documents that became famous as the Pentagon Papers. Neil Sheehan also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his book A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Susan and Neil Sheehan lived in Washington, D.C.
Her Books
Here are some of the books Susan Sheehan has written:
- 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
- 2002 The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits (This book was written with Howard Means.)
