Susanna Kaysen

Author of Girl, Interrupted

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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 several novels including Asa, As I Knew Him, Far Afield, and Camera My Mother Gave Me. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Girl, Interrupted… (more)

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Works by Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Interrupted 7,407 copies, 118 reviews

The Camera My Mother Gave Me 275 copies, 9 reviews

Girl, Interrupted [2000 film] (Original book) 183 copies, 4 reviews

Cambridge 146 copies, 8 reviews

Asa, as I Knew Him 133 copies, 2 reviews

Far Afield 131 copies, 3 reviews

Inocencia interrumpida 1 copy

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Also by Susanna Kaysen

Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (Contributor) 484 copies, 8 reviews

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 447 copies, 3 reviews

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