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Susan Sheehan

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13 picks · 1966–1996

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KID, TWELVE
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Brian Lee Tomberlind, the child of a lower middle-class family. The writer followed Brian to school and home with his family for a …

A LOST MOTHERHOOD
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about a multi-generational black family and the welfare system that supported them. Tells about the lives of Crystal Taylor (pseud.), …

THE RIGHTFUL OWNER
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the consequences of not having a will and the search for an heir. On Mar. 22, 1984 Edward Devlin died without a will. On Nov. 12, …

KATE QUINTON'S DAYS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the ailing 80-year-old Kate Quinton (pseud.) Although she lived with her daughter Claire, she needed a caretaker to assist her at …

I-KATE QUINTON'S DAYS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the ailing 80-year-old Kate Quinton (pseud.) & her treatment for the first half of 1982. She was a patient at Lutheran Medical …

The Patient
a reporter at large ·

Writing in 1981, Susan Sheehan reports on the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, a state-run mental institution serving the people of Queens.

A WELFARE MOTHER
profiles ·

PROFILE of Carmen Santana (fictitious name), a welfare mother. She lives in a 4-room apt. in the Williamsburg section of Bklyn., with the 4 children she …

LEE QUANG
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Le Quang, a thirteen-year old orphaned Vietnamese ice-cream vender. He was born about forty miles from Danang, in the village of …