Background
Mrs. Lydon was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, on November 14, 1943. She was a daughter of Sam (an electrician) and Eve Gordon.
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A former heroin addict describes writing for The New York Times, her role in the founding of Rolling Stone, how her twenty-five-year addiction alienated her from family, friends, and her talent, and her difficult recovery.
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1993
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From the author of the modern classic The Knitting Sutra comes an inspiring and colorful narrative on knitting through one’s darkest hours. Susan Gordon Lydon’s groundbreaking book The Knitting Sutra offered a new way for knitters to look at their craft—as a healing and meditative endeavor instead of a granny hobby or an indulgent pastime.
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Mrs. Lydon was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, on November 14, 1943. She was a daughter of Sam (an electrician) and Eve Gordon.
Susan Lydon was a graduate of Vassar College.
Mrs. Lydon had a promising journalistic career during the 1960s and 1970s. Mrs. Lydon worked as a freelance journalist for publications such as Ramparts, Ms., and New York Times. She was a contributor of articles to periodicals, including Ramparts, Ms., New York Times, and Rolling Stone; also author of the essay, "The Politics of Orgasm."
After approximately twenty-five years of drug abuse, Mrs. Lydon checked into Women Inc., a treatment program in Boston, Massachusetts, where she began her long road to recovery. Eventually, she grew well enough to write about her experiences — both while doing drugs and recovering from them — in her 1993 autobiography, Take the Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Survivor.
(A former heroin addict describes writing for The New York...)
1993(From the author of the modern classic The Knitting Sutra ...)
Since her adolescence in New York, Susan Lydon had used drugs, and carried bags of marijuana with her while a student at Vassar College. She eventually became addicted to heroin, resorting eventually to prostitution in order to support her habit.
Susan Lydon married Michael Lydon, a journalist. They later divorced. The couple had one daughter: Shuna.