Susanna Kaysen

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Susanna Kaysen
Born	(1948-11-11) November 11, 1948 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948)^{[citation needed]} is an American author, best known for her memoir Girl, Interrupted.

Life

Susanna Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and his wife Annette Neutra Kaysen. Kaysen has one sister and is divorced. She lived for a time in the Faroe Islands, upon which experience her novel Far Afield is based.

Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston, and the Cambridge School before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression. It was there she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was released after eighteen months. She later drew on this experience for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted, which was adapted into a film in 1999. She was portrayed by Winona Ryder.

Bibliography

Asa, As I Knew Him, 1987, ISBN 978-0-679-75377-3
Far Afield, 1990, ISBN 978-0-679-75376-6
Girl, Interrupted, 1993, ISBN 978-1-85381-835-6
The Camera My Mother Gave Me, 2001, ISBN 978-0-679-76343-7

External links

Austin Chronicle interview with Kaysen, via the Wayback Machine
Susanna Kaysen, with photo of the author and synopses of her books, on the site of her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 88222694 LCCN: n86109794 ISNI: 0000 0000 8162 3429 GND: 138166773 BNF: cb12231238w

Persondata
Name	Kaysen, Susanna
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Short description	American writer
Date of birth	November 11, 1948
Place of birth	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of death
Place of death

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