Susanna Kaysen
Author of Girl, Interrupted
About the Author
Susanna Kaysen was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 11, 1948. Her memoir Girl, Interrupted is the harrowing account of her two year confinement in the McLean Psychiatric Hospital and was been adapted into a motion picture starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. She has also written show more several novels including Asa, As I Knew Him, Far Afield, and Camera My Mother Gave Me. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 452 copies
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- Kaysen, Susanna
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- 1948-11-11
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- Kaysen, Carl (father)
Wylie, Jonathan (husband | divorced)
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GIRL, INTERRUPTED by Susanna Kaysen
I've seen the movie tons of times and thought it was very good. I enjoyed the book a lot, as well. Though I must admit, while I can and have watched the movie many times, I just don't think I'll be able to read the book more than once.
Author Susanna Kaysen was having a bad day when a psychiatrist she'd never seen before referred her for hospitalization at McLean, the top-tier mental institution of the 1960s. In her memoir Girl, Interrupted, she remembers the almost two years she spent at McLean, along with the colorful characters she met there. This slight book delves into questions of sanity vs. insanity, free expression vs. control, and Thorazine vs. everything else. Was Kaysen mentally ill, or just a sensitive, nonconformist teenager growing up during a tumultuous time? The book leaves the question open. Recommended.… (more)
I couldn't put it down, read it straight through in one night. Absolutely fantastic.
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