Susan Orlean Quotes


When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.


Citations

Orlean, Susan. Free-Range Susan. The New Yorker, Condé Nast, 2011.

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Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean
  • Born: October 31, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Author

Susan Orlean is a journalist and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside.