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Susan Sheehan (1937-2026) Writer. Susan Sheehan was born in Vienna, Austria, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.

Full Name

Susan Maria Sachsel Sheehan

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1937

Birth

Susan Sheehan was born Susanna Maria Sachsel in Vienna, Austria, on August 24, 1937.

1954

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Sheehan graduated from Hunter College High School in 1954.

1967

Literary Work

Ten Vietnamese
Alfred A. Knopf
0394448154 / 978-0394448152
Collection of dispatches to The New Yorker.

1976

Literary Work

A Welfare Mother
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0395245052 / 978-0395245057
Nonfiction.

1978

Literary Work

A Prison and a Prisoner
Houghton Mifflin
039526684X / 978-0395266847
Nonfiction.

1982

Literary Work

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0395318718 / 978-0395318713
Nonfiction and winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

1986

Literary Work

A Missing Plane
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
0399131833 / 978-0399131837
Nonfiction.

1993

Literary Work

Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair
Pantheon
067941472X / 978-0679414728
Nonfiction.

2026

Death

Susan Sheehan died at her home in Washington, District of Columbia, on February 17, 2026.

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