Susan Sheehan

This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of schizophrenia—now reissued with a new postscript—follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness. “Sylvia Frumkin” was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizophrenia in her teens. She spent the next seventeen years in and out of mental institutions. In 1978, reporter Susan Sheehan took an interest in her and, for more than two years, became immersed in her talking with her, listening to her monologues, sitting in on consultations with doctors—even, for a period, sleeping in the bed next to her in a psychiatric center. With Sheehan, we become witness to Sylvia’s her psychotic episodes, the medical struggle to control her symptoms, and the overburdened hospitals that, more often than not, she was obliged to call home. The resulting book, first published in 1982, was hailed as an extraordinary harrowing, humanizing, moving, and bitingly funny. Now, some two decades later, Is There No Place on Earth for Me? continues to set the standard for accounts of mental illness.

On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State’s foster-care system—a sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000 children.Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair is the story of what happened to Crystal and Daquan, as well as to Crystal’s mother, who herself had grown up in various foster homes. It is a story of three generations of poverty, addiction, and abuse—and also a story of astonishing human resilience. And Susan Sheehan tells it with the same flawless observation, humor, and compassion that she brought to her classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

An in-depth account of the discovery of a crashed American bomber missing for thirty-eight years and the painstaking identification of the plane's passengers

A humorous study of American leisure explores a wide variety of unusual activities and hobbies, from swimming the Great Lakes to growing bonsai trees. 35,000 first printing.

Book by Sheehan, Susan

Vietnam

The Pulitzer-Prize winning author reports on the daily existence of the elderly, focusing on a high-spirited Irish-born woman and her responses to aging, illness, and dependency on others

extremely rare,very good condition

Featuring stories Amy Argetsinger, Leon Dash, Eddie Dean, David Finkel, Marc Fisher, Linda Greenhouse, Walt Harrington, Wil Haygood, Philip Kennicott, Howard Means, Luke Mullins, Maureen Orth, John Pekkanen, David Remnick, James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Roxanne Roberts, and Josh Swiller.Like many residents of our nation’s capital, Susan Sheehan is an accidental Washingtonian.Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1937, she survived the Blitz in London as a very young girl and then settled with her parents into an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It wasn’t until 1966, when her husband, Neil Sheehan, took a job at the DC Bureau of The New York Times, that she became a Washington resident, but there she would raise their two daughters and remain for the next sixty years.By then, Susan was a correspondent for The New Yorker, on her way to writing eight books. One of them, Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1983. Neil was himself a well-known foreign and war correspondent. After becoming world-famous for his role in surfacing the Pentagon Papers (for which The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service), he would win his own Pulitzer (also for General Nonfiction), in 1989, for his monumental history of the War in Vietnam: A Bright Shining Lie.From the earliest age, Susan says, she was a “print junkie.” Having grown up reading The Times instead of children’s books, she says she has always interacted with the world through the filter of great reporting and writing. From this point of view comes her idea of painting a portrait of her adopted hometown with a collection the stories that left strong enough impressions to stick with her through the years.Of course, when you reside in Washington, DC, it’s not all about politics. As a local resident, the backdrop of your daily life just happens to be the most powerful city on earth. In describing their hometown, these fine writers bring their residency and feelings to bear.While it was statedly not Susan’s idea to turn out a political book, experience tells us that a random sample can often yield universal truths. Published in chronological order, the seventeen stories in Our Washington, DC begin in 1963 with James R. Reston’s eyewitness account of Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic and hopeful “I Have a Dream” speech on the National Mall . . . and features, antepenultimately, a Linda Greenhouse column from 2022 decrying the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Row v. Wade.America’s hometown is today in a period of rapid transition. The future is yet to be seen. A free and lively press, dedicated to fact-based reporting, will always be the best window.

New York, Susan Sheehan, Inc., 1987. Bound gallery catalog for exhibition dated October 27- December 19, 1987, price list bound-in. Softcover. Unpaginated [72 pp.] exhibition catalog including 90 b/w illustrated works by John Storrs, Louis Lozowick, Charles Sheeler, Howard Cook, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Josef Albers, and many others. Index, Biblography.

extremely rare,very good condition

You do not have to live with the brain you were born with. RESET, Fast Track Your BRAIN for Ultimate Success will simply explain what you need to do to change your brain to achieve better results in business and life. Written especially for readers who want to make more money and live a better life, keep your mind sharp and resilient, stave off the mental effects of overwhelm and stress, this book presents a complete outline of how to build a better brain and consists of real world tips and methods that will tell you exactly what you need to do on a regular basis Your brain is flesh and blood and needs to be nurtured BUT it is also a genius brain and this book will you let you know what the brain needs to function at peak performance. Get mentally prepared to create wealth, change the information in your brain and get started being the person you were born to be and living the life you were born to live. FAST TRACK YOUR BRAIN POWER FOR ULITMATE SUCCESS.

138 prints are described and illustrated.

45 prints are described, of which 33 are illustrated.

Exhibition June 1-30, 1988. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers. 12 pp, 14 b/w illustrations.