Susanna Kaysen was born in Cambridge, MA in 1948 and spent most of her childhood there. She attended the Commonwealth School in Boston and The Cambridge School of Weston. Kaysen earned fame for her 1993 memoir, Girl, Interrupted, about her experiences in McLean Psychiatric hospital as a young woman. It was later adapted into a film starring Winona Ryder. Kaysen has also written two novels: Asa, as I knew Him and Far Afield. She was a Fellow at MacDowell in both 1988 and 1991. Today, she is divorced and residing in Cambridge, as she has for most of her life.
Discipline:
Literature
Susanna Kaysen
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988, 1991
Studios
Star
Susanna Kaysen worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…