Sue Kaufman (August 7, 1926 – June 25, 1977) was an American author best known for the novel Diary of a Mad Housewife.
BiographyEdit
Kaufman was born on Long Island, New York. She received her degree from Vassar College in 1947. In 1953, she married a doctor named Jeremiah Abraham Barondess, with whom she had a son. At Vassar, she did some editorial work. Her works appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her first novel came out in 1959. In 1967, she wrote Diary of a Mad Housewife, which was adapted as a movie in 1970. She died in Manhattan in 1977 at the age of 50 after a long illness.[1] The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction is named in her honor.
BibliographyEdit
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)
ReferencesEdit
^"Sue Kaufman, 50, Noted Novelist". The Washington Post. 1977-06-28. pp. C6. Retrieved 2011-08-15.
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