Susan Sheehan (née Sachsel; born August 24, 1937) is an Austrian-born

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writer.

Biography

Born in

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, Austria, she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1983 for her book '' Is There No Place on Earth for Me?'' The book details the experiences of a young

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woman diagnosed with

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. Portions of the book were published in ''

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'', for which she has written frequently since 1961 as a staff writer. Her work as a contributing writer has also appeared in ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 1986, Sheehan published in ''The New Yorker'' "A Missing Plane," a three-part series about the

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’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'',

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called the article "exhaustive and ultimately exhausting." Her husband was the journalist

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, who also won a

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for General Non-Fiction for '' A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam'' in 1989. Sheehan and her husband lived in

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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'' *2002 ''The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits'' (co-written with Howard Means)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sheehan, Susan 1937 births Writers from Vienna Hunter College High School alumni Living people Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners Wellesley College alumni 20th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers American women journalists 20th-century American journalists Austrian emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women

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