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Susanna Kaysen (born 11 November 1948) is an American author.
Kaysen was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1967, Kaysen attended the Commonwealth School before being sent to McLean Hospital to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression. It was there she learned she had borderline personality disorder. She was released after eighteen months. She later drew on this experience for her 1994 memoir Girl, Interrupted, which was made into a film in 1999, her role being played by Winona Ryder.
She is the daughter of the economist, Carl Kaysen, a professor at MIT and former advisor to President John F. Kennedy.
Literary works
- Asa, As I Knew Him, 1987
- Far Afield, 1990
- Girl, Interrupted, 1994
- Camera My Mother Gave Me, 2001
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1948 births | Living people | People from Massachusetts | American memoirists People diagnosed with clinical depression
"Susanna Kaysen"