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Birth—January 30, 1985
Raised—Summit, New Jersey, USA
Education—Washington Uiversity
Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain that affected her at the age of 24.

Cahalan writes for the New York Post. Her work has also been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American Magazine, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn. (From the publisher.)

Read this account of Cahalan's own illness.