WRITER

Susanna Kaysen

1948 - Today

Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen (born November 11, 1948) is an American author, best known for her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susanna Kaysen has received more than 997,942 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Susanna Kaysen is the 3,954th most popular writer (up from 4,940th in 2019), the 5,161st most popular biography from United States (up from 7,309th in 2019) and the 422nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

1.0M
Page Views (PV)
50.38
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
4.03
Effective Languages (L*)
2.58
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Camera My Mother Gave Me

2001

Une vie volée

2000

Girl, Interrupted

1995

Asa, as I knew him

Fiction

Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the "happy, handsome man" who, in her words, "was born to stomp on my heart."Witty and sexy, funny and immediate, Asa, As I Knew Him is a a seductive dialogue between love and memory, obsession and illusion.From the Trade Paperback edition.

1987

Far Afield

1990

Girl, interrupted

Mental health, Psychiatric hospital patients, Biography

1993

Asa, as I knew him

Fiction, Fiction, general, Man-woman relationships

1987

Girl, interrupted

Mental health, Psychiatric hospital patients, Biography

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.

1993

Girl, Interrupted

Mentally ill, biography, Women, mental health, Psychiatric hospitals

1995

GIRL, INTERRUPTED

New York Times reviewed

1993

Cambridge

Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, Cambridge (mass.), fiction

2014

The Camera My Mother Gave Me

Sexual disorders, Women, biography, Health

"The Camera My Mother Gave Me takes us through Susanna Kaysen's often comic, sometimes surreal encounters with all kinds of doctors - internists, gynecologists, "alternative health" experts - as well as with her boyfriend and her friends, when suddenly, inexplicably, "something went wrong" with her vagina."--BOOK JACKET.

2001