Sue Kaufman

Sue Kaufman ( born August 7, 1926 in Long Iceland, New York, † June 25, 1977 in New York City ) was an American author, known for Diary of a Mad Housewife.

Life and work

She graduated from Vassar College in 1947. 1953 she married a doctor named Jeremiah Abraham Baron Dess with whom she had a son. At Vassar she made ​​some editorial work and began to write. Her work has appeared in magazines The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her first novel was published in 1959. 1967 she wrote Diary of a Mad Housewife, which was made ​​into a movie. She died in 1977 after a long illness.

The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction was named after her.

Bibliography

  • The Happy summer days, 1959
  • Green Holly, 1961
  • Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1967
  • The Headshrinker 's test, 1969
  • Falling Bodies, 1974
  • The Master and other stories, 1976
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