Susan Sheehan (nee Margulies) (born August 24, 1937), is a U.S. journalist.
Born in Vienna, 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 New York woman diagnosed with schizophrenia as she went in and out of a variety of treatment settings. Portions of the book were published in the The New Yorker, for which she has written frequentl...
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Susan Sheehan (nee Margulies) (born August 24, 1937), is a U.S. journalist.
Born in Vienna, 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 New York woman diagnosed with schizophrenia as she went in and out of a variety of treatment settings. Portions of the book were published in the The New Yorker, for which she has written frequently since the 1970s.
Sheehan is also known for "A Welfare Mother" in 1976; she returned to this topic in 1993, with a book, Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair, on the child welfare system. She is the wife of journalist Neil Sheehan, who also won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (in 1989) for "A Bright Shining Lie."
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