Susannah Cahalan is an award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and public speaker. Her 2012 memoir, Brain on Fire has sold over a million copies and was made into a Netflix original movie. Her second book, The Great Pretender was shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society's Science Book Prize. She has written for The New York Times, New York Post, Elle, The New Scientist, and BBC's Focus, as well as academic journals The Lancet and Biological Psychiatry. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and twin toddlers.
"The best reporters never stop asking questions, and Cahalan is no
exception...The result is a kind of anti-memoir, an out-of-body
personal account of a young woman's fight to survive one of the
cruelest diseases imaginable. And on every level, it's
remarkable.....Cahalan is nothing if not tenacious, and she
perfectly tempers her brutal honesty with compassion and something
like vulnerability. It's indisputable that Cahalan is a gifted
reporter, and Brain on Fire is a stunningly brave book. But even
more than that, she's a naturally talented prose stylist --
whip-smart but always unpretentious -- and it's nearly impossible
to stop reading her, even in the book's most painful
passages....Brain on Fire comes from a place of intense pain and
unthinkable isolation, but finds redemption in Cahalan's
unflagging, defiant toughness. It's an unexpected gift of a book
from one of America's most courageous young journalists."--
"NPR.org"
"Compelling...a New York Post reporter recounts her medical
nightmare."-- "Mental Floss"
"The bizarre and confounding illness that beset the 24-year-old New
York Post reporter in early 2009 so ravaged her mentally and
physically that she became unrecognizable to coworkers, family,
friends, and--most devastatingly--herself... She dedicates this
miracle of a book to 'those without a diagnosis'... [An]
unforgettable memoir."-- "Elle"
"This fascinating memoir by a young New York Post
reporter...describes how she crossed the line between sanity and
insanity...Cahalan expertly weaves together her own story and
relevant scientific information...compelling."-- "Booklist (starred
review)"
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