Susannah Cahalan is an award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and public speaker. Her 2012 memoir, Brain on Fire has sold over a million copies and was made into a Netflix original movie. Her second book, The Great Pretender, made an array of “Best-Of” lists and was shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society’s Science Book Award. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Post, Elle, The New Scientist, and BBC’s Focus, as well as academic journals The Lancet and Biological Psychiatry.
“Cahalan is nothing if not tenacious, and she perfectly tempers her brutal honesty with compassion and something like vulnerability” - NPR
