Susan Sheehan, an American writer and author of Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, died on February 17, 2026.
Born Susanna Maria Sachsel in Vienna, Austria, on August 24, 1937, she won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for the book, which described the experiences of a young New York City woman diagnosed with schizophrenia. Sheehan wrote frequently for The New Yorker as a staff writer beginning in 1961, and her work also appeared there in later years.
In 1986, she published “A Missing Plane,” a three-part New Yorker series about the U.S. Army’s effort to identify the remains of victims of a 1944 airplane crash.
Susanna Maria Sheehan (née Sachsel; August 24, 1937 – February 17, 2026) was an American writer.