Sue Kaufman (August 7, 1926 – June 25, 1977) was an American author best known for the novel Diary of a Mad Housewife.
In 1953, she married a doctor named Jeremiah Abraham Barondess, with whom she had a son.
Her works appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Evening Post.
In 1967, she wrote Diary of a Mad Housewife, which was adapted as a movie in 1970.
[1] Having struggled with depression for years, and facing another stay in a mental institution the next day, she committed suicide on June 25, 1977 by jumping from her eighteenth-story apartment window at age 50.