Background
Sheehan, Susan was born on August 24, 1937 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1946. Daughter of Charles and Kitty C. (Herrmann) Sachsel.
(We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, wher...)
We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections and amateur sports to which we devote so much of our lives. "The Banana Sculptor, the Pur...
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The steep mountains and dense jungles of New Guinea swallowed up the wreckage of about 350 crashed Allied aircraft during World War II and few have been found. This story of the discovery, excavation, and identification of the remains of the pilots and crew of one B-24 tells in understated fashion the ripples of anguish sent out by this isolated tragedyfrom the effect on the recovery team and the Army forensic specialists in Hawaii who carefully assemble the few weathered bones to reveal their identity, to the victims' families, drawn again 39 years later into mourning. A slim though affecting look at a facet of war too easy to overlook. Mel D. Lane, Sacramento, Cal.
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Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 204 pages; Signed, inscribed and dated by the author. Ten Vietnamese give their views on, and experiences of, the Vietnam conflict.
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Sheehan, Susan was born on August 24, 1937 in Vienna, Austria. Arrived in the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1946. Daughter of Charles and Kitty C. (Herrmann) Sachsel.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1958. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Lowell, Massachusetts, 1991.
The book details the experiences of a young New York woman diagnosed with schizophrenia. Portions of the book were published in The New Yorker, for which she has written frequently since 1961 as a staff writer Her work as a contributing writer has also appeared in The New York Times and Architectural Digest.
In 1986, Sheehan published in The New Yorker “A Missing Plane,” a three-part series about the United States. Army’s attempt to identify the remains of the victims of a 1944 airplane crash.
In About Town: The New Yorker and the World lieutenant Made, Ben Yagoda called the article “exhaustive and ultimately exhausting.”.
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Member literature panel District of Columbia Commission on Arts and Humanities, 1979-1984. Member public information and education committee National Mental Health Association, 1982-1983. Member advisory committee on employment and crime Vera Institute Justice, 1978-1986.
Chair Pulitzer Prize nominating jury in general non-fiction for 1988, 1994, member, 1991. Juror Parkman Prize Committee, Society of America Historians, 2008. Board directors Brides Against Breast Cancer, since 2006.
Member of Society of America Historians, Authors Guild, Lansdowne Club (London), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Neil Sheehan, March 30,1965. Children— Maria Gregory, Catherine Fair.