Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is The New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including "The Library Book," "Rin Tin Tin," "Saturday Night," and "The Orchid Thief," which was made into the Academy Award–winning film, Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in Los Angeles.
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Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, California Book Award, Marfield Prize
Girlhood: Memory and Myth
Join Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Joy Harjo and Susan Orlean as they explore the path from girlhood to self‑defined womanhood, where memory, art and ancestral stories shape identity.
Student Union North Ballroom (Seats 670)
Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area South Ballroom (following presentation)
Panelists:
Rachel Eliza Griffiths,
Joy Harjo,
Susan Orlean
Moderator: Gay Vernon
Books:
Joyride
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
October 2025
ISBN 9781982135164
336 pages
On Animals
Nature / Environment
Simon and Schuster
June 2022
ISBN 9781982181543
256 pages
