![]() ![]() ![]() She now splits her time between Los Angeles and the Hudson Valley of New York, with her husband, son, and menagerie of animals. Her meticulously researched and artfully crafted book about the Los Angeles Public Library and the arson fire there in 1986, The Library Book, was published in October, 2018, by Simon and Schuster, and catapulted her into the ranks of the most loved authors in the nation. These days, she lectures teaches, and writes pieces for The New Yorker and other magazines, while working on books. Four years later, she moved to New York, wrote The Orchid Thief, became a staff writer at The New Yorker, got married, and added a Welsh Springer Spaniel to her family. She moved to Boston in 1982, and wrote for the Boston Globe, starting her first book, Saturday Night, in that historic city. After college, she decided to abandon her plans to go to law school to fulfill her dream of being a writer, living in Oregon and writing for an alternative newsweekly in Portland, then for Rolling Stone and The Village Voice. ![]() ![]() Long before she became an award-winning and distinctly American author and beloved writer for The New Yorker, Susan Orlean spent her childhood in Cleveland, Ohio and studied literature and history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. ![]()
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