Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1 appearances
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Edition 24 (1983) Winner
Susan Sheehan
スーザン・シーアン
Susan Sheehan
Aliases:
Sachsel
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1937-08-24 （Vienna, Austria）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Washington, D.C. → New York City
Career
- Occupations
- journalist, nonfiction writer
- Active Years
- 1961-2024
- Affiliations
- The New Yorker
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction | Is There No Place on Earth for Me? | General Nonfiction | Columbia University | Winner |
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1983
Work:
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Category:
General Nonfiction
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
1982 Nonfiction 341 pagesDetails the experiences of a young New York City woman diagnosed with schizophrenia.
mental illnesshealthcare systemsocial stigma
Bibliography
- Ten Vietnamese (1967)
- A Welfare Mother (1976)
- A Prison and a Prisoner (1978)
- Kate Quinton's Days (1984)
- A Missing Plane (1986)
- Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair (1993)
- The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer (2002)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- in-depth reportage styleimmersive objective narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- lives of social outcastspersonal and social strugglesinstitutional failures
Legacy
Pulitzer Prize winner in General Nonfiction in 1983. Long-time staff writer for The New Yorker since 1961. Husband Neil Sheehan also won a Pulitzer Prize.
Trivia
- Born Susan Sachsel.
- Her husband Neil Sheehan won the Pulitzer for 'A Bright Shining Lie' in 1989.
- She urged her husband to copy the Pentagon Papers.
- In 1986, published a three-part series in The New Yorker about U.S. Army's identification of 1944 plane crash victims.