Susannah Cahalan | |
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![]() Cahalan in 2014 | |
Born | January 30, 1985 |
Citizenship | USA |
Education | Washington University in St. Louis |
Occupation(s) | journalist, author |
Notable work | Brain on Fire |
Spouse |
Stephen Grywalski (m. 2015) |
Children | 2 |
Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American writer and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.[1][2][3] She published a second book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, in 2019. She also works as a writer for the New York Post. Cahalan's work has raised awareness for her brain disease, making it more well-known and decreasing the likelihood of misdiagnoses.[citation needed]