Susan Sheehan (née Sachsel; born August 24, 1937)[1] is an Austrian-born American writer.
Born in Vienna, Austria,[1] she won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
[2] The book details the experiences of a young New York City woman diagnosed with schizophrenia.
[3] In 1986, Sheehan published in The New Yorker "A Missing Plane," a three-part series about the U.S. Army's attempt to identify the remains of the victims of a 1944 airplane crash.
Her husband was the journalist Neil Sheehan, whom she urged to copy what became known as the Pentagon Papers for the Times with her help,[4] and who also won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [1] for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam in 1989.