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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean became a staff writer for the New Yorker in 1992 and has also written for Esquire, Vogue and Rolling Stone. She is the author of the novel The Orchid Thief.

Books by Susan Orlean

The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up

A hilarious and sparkling collection of essays on people, famous, infamous and obscure, told with the gloriously eccentric wit that have made Susan Orlean one of America's best-known journalists and The Orchid Thief into a bestseller.

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The Orchid Thief

Intrigued by the case of a Florida flower-thief, Susan Orlean enters the extraordinary world of orchid-obsessives.

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