Susan Margulies Sheehan
Susan Margulies Sheehan · Arts & Literature
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
1937, Vienna, Austria — 2026, Washington, D.C., United States
Austria · United States
Susan Margulies Sheehan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Susan Sheehan was an American journalist and longtime New Yorker writer who won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for 'Is There No Place on Earth for Me?', an immersive account of a young woman living with schizophrenia. Born in Vienna, she and her family left Austria after the 1938 Nazi annexation; her father was of Jewish descent. Her documentary reporting chronicled people on society's margins.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
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Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
