Author

Susannah Cahalan

4 books, mostly biography, for Canongate Books and Grand Central Publishing, 2019–2025

Susannah Cahalan is an award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author and journalist whose writing blends personal narrative, investigative reporting, and science. Her memoir Brain on Fire recounts her experience with a rare autoimmune brain disease, while The Great Pretender investigates a landmark psychiatric study and The Acid Queen is a biography of counterculture figure Rosemary Woodruff Leary. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The New York Post.