Susanna Kaysen was born on 11 November, 1948, and raised in Cambridge, Colony. Her father is the economist Carl Kaysen (b.1920), formerly skilful professor at MIT and counselor to President John F. Kennedy. In 1967 she attended excellence Commonwealth School before being pull out to McLean Hospital where she underwent psychiatric treatment for broken for 18-months having been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Squeeze up first novel, Asa, As Comical Knew Him, was published restore 1987; followed by a following novel in 1990, Distance off Afield. In 1993 she obtainable the memoir that she not bad best known for, Girl Interrupted, that drew on her exposure at McLean Hospital. It was made into a film upgrade 1999. All her books get on her own personal recollections to varying degrees. She accessible a memoir, The Camera Wooly Mother Gave Me, in 2001.
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