Sue Kaufman
Sue Kaufman (born in Long Island on August 7, 1926; died June 25, 1977) is an American author best known for Diary of a Mad Housewife.
Life and works
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 Vasser she did some editorial work and went on to writing. 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 would be filmed as Diary of a Mad Housewife. She died in 1977 after a long illness.[1] The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction is named in her honor.
Bibliography
- 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
References
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