Girl, Interrupted
The best-known and most accessible introduction to Kaysen's memoiristic writing.
Author guide
Susanna Kaysen Books in Order
Susanna Kaysen is an American author whose fiction includes Asa, as I Knew Him, Far Afield, and Cambridge, and whose memoirs include Girl, Interrupted and The Camera My Mother Gave Me. Her writing often explores memory, identity, illness, sexuality, family, and belonging.
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Novels (3)
- Asa, as I Knew Him
novel · 1987
Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth,…
- Far Afield
novel · 1990
- Cambridge
novel · 2014
Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings…
Nonfiction (2)
- Girl, Interrupted
memoir · 1993
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric…
- The Camera My Mother Gave Me
memoir · 2001
