Susanna Kaysen
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Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted.
Background
Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Annette (Template:Nee) and economist Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Her family is Jewish.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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.Template:Citation needed
Bibliography
- Asa, As I Knew Him, 1987, Template:ISBN
- Far Afield, 1990, Template:ISBN
- Girl, Interrupted, 1993, Template:ISBN
- The Camera My Mother Gave Me, 2001, Template:ISBN
- Cambridge, 2014, Template:ISBN
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American memoirists
- Writers from Boston
- People with borderline personality disorder
- 20th-century American novelists
- American women memoirists
- 20th-century American women novelists
- Commonwealth School alumni
- Novelists from Massachusetts
- McLean Hospital patients
- 21st-century American women
- Jewish American memoirists
- Jewish American novelists
- Jewish American women writers