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Susan Orlean

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Susan Orlean has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992 and has also written for Outside, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue. She graduated from the University of Michigan and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Orlean now lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York with her husband and son.

Books by Susan Orlean
My Kind of Place
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The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up
Susan Orlean

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
Susan Orlean

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

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