Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted.
Susanna Kaysen
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- 1948 · Cambridge.
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- United States
- Occupation
- writer · novelist · screenwriter
- Education
- Commonwealth School · The Cambridge School of Weston
- Languages
- English
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Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Annette (née Neutra) and economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Her family is Jewish. Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston, and the Cambridge School of Weston, before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for clinical depression. While there, she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was released after 18 months. She drew on this experience for her memoir Girl, Interrupted in 1993, which was adapted into a film in which she was portrayed by actress Winona Ryder. 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.
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Susanna Kaysen, recorded as a writer, was born on 11 November 1948. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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- 1.Cf. Library of Congress catalog entry for Susanna Kaysen.
- 2.Fisher, Franklin M., "Carl Kaysen: 5 March 1920 - 8 February 2010" , Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 156, No. 3, September 2012
- 3.Sittenfeld, Curtis. Problem Child. The New York Times. 23 May 2014.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Asa, As I Knew Him, 1987,
- Far Afield, 1990,
- Girl, Interrupted, 1993,
- The Camera My Mother Gave Me, 2001,
- Cambridge, 2014,
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