Susan Sheehan (née Sachsel; born August 24, 1937) is an Austrian-born American writer. Biography Born in Vienna, Austria, she won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1983 for her book Is There No Place on Earth for Me? The book details the experiences of a young New York City 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 U.S. Army’s attempt to identify the remains of the victims of a 1944 airplane crash. In About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, Ben Yagoda called the article "exhaustive and ultimately exhausting." Her husband was the journalist Neil Sheehan, who also won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam in 1989. Sheehan and her husband lived in Washington, D.C. Works Her other works include: 1967 Ten Vietnamese 1976 A welfare mother 1978 A prison and a prisoner 1984 Kate Quinton's days 1986 A missing plane 1993 Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair 2002 The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits (co-written with Howard Means) Further reading References 1937 births Writers from Vienna Hunter College High School alumni Living people Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners Wellesley College alumni 20th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers American women journalists 20th-century American journalists Austrian emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women