Author

Books by Susannah Cahalan

Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author based in New York. She was a reporter and feature writer for the New York Post before and after her illness. Brain on Fire, published in 2012, was adapted into a Netflix film in 2016. Her second book, The Great Pretender, published in 2019, examines the history of psychiatric diagnosis through the story of the Rosenhan experiment. Cahalan has become an advocate for patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and related autoimmune neurological conditions.