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Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling [1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Susana Kaysen is 18 years old at the beginning of her memoir. She is a bright but troubled teenager with a surprising breadth of life experience. At this age, Kaysen has already abandoned school, had an affair with her high school English teacher, and half-heartedly attempted suicide.
May 22, 2023 · “Time is very weird,” says Susanna Kaysen, best known for her first memoir, Girl, Interrupted. “It just seems impossible that it’s 30 years ago that it came out.
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Mar 20, 2023 · Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient. She...
Jan 1, 1993 · Girl, Interrupted is 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills.
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Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Susanna Kaysen, is the daughter of Harvard economist Carl Kaysen—once an advisor to President John F. Kennedy. Kaysen is the author of several books of fiction and memoir, of which Girl, Interrupted is by far her most well known.
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Jun 27, 2018 · Susanna Kaysen, the author of the 1993 best seller ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ feels readers misunderstood the book she’d intended to write.
