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Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She writes for the New York Post. Her work has also been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.

The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia

Susannah Cahalan on the Disappearing Acts and Unseen Influences of Timothy Leary’s Wife

April 23, 2025 By Susannah Cahalan

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

Nellie Bly Committed Herself to the Infamous Blackwell Island Asylum Just to Get the Story

November 7, 2019 By Susannah Cahalan

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