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Sue Kaufman


Born
in New York, The United States
August 07, 1926

Died
June 25, 1977


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 Vasser 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.[1] The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction is named in her honor.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 2,006 ratings · 214 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
Diary of a Mad Housewife
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3.79 avg rating — 1,950 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions
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Falling Bodies
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The Master, and Other Stories
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The Headshrinker's Test
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Green Holly
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The Happy Summer Days
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“O porque cumplí treinta y seis años a principios de agosto: sería de lo más oportuno. Treintaiseiscitis.”
― Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife
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“Los violentos placeres que se derivan de una relación sadomasoquista han sido ampliamente documentados por los expertos.”
― Sue Kaufman, Diary of a Mad Housewife
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“...debo reconocer que algo en la línea de "he sentido pasar sobre mí el viento del ala de la locura" de Baudelaire se acerca bastante a lo que tengo en mente”
― Sue Kaufman
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