Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

Susanna Maria Sheehan (née Sachsel; born August 24, 1937, in Vienna, Austria) was an American nonfiction writer and staff writer for The New Yorker since 1961. She won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Is There No Place on Earth for Me?, which chronicled the life of a woman with schizophrenia, and authored other works like Ten Vietnamese (1967), A Welfare Mother (1976), and Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair (1993). Married to journalist Neil Sheehan, she contributed to the Pentagon Papers story and passed away on February 17, 2026. Read more →