Sue Kaufman

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

Life

She graduated from Vassar College in 1947. In 1953 she married a doctor named Jeremiah Abraham Barondess with whom she had a son. At the Vassar she did 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. In 1967 she wrote Diary of a Mad Housewife , which was also made into a film . She died in 1977 after a long illness.

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

Works

  • 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sue Kaufman, 50, Noted Novelist . In: The Washington Post , June 28, 1977, p. C6. Retrieved August 15, 2011. 
personal data
SURNAME Kaufman, Sue
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH long Island
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1977
Place of death New York City