Name Sue Kaufman Role Author | Education Vassar College Movies Diary of a Mad Housewife | |
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Died June 25, 1977, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Books Diary of a Mad Housewife, Falling Bodies, The master, and other stories, Life with Prudence, The headshrinker's test Similar People Carrie Snodgress, Frank Perry, Eleanor Perry, Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella | ||
Allan Gurganus Addresses Graduates of the Bennington Writing Seminars Class of January 2019
Sue Kaufman (August 7, 1926 – June 25, 1977) was an American author best known for the novel Diary of a Mad Housewife.
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- Allan Gurganus Addresses Graduates of the Bennington Writing Seminars Class of January 2019
- Biography
- References
Biography
Kaufman was born in 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 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 Manhattan in 1977, at the age of 50, after a long illness. The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction is named in her honor.
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