Susan Q. Stranahan

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Susan Q. Stranahan
Employer Philadelphia Inquirer
Writing career
Alma mater College of Wooster, 1968 [1]
Subject Journalism
Notable awards 1980 Pulitzer Prize
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Susan Q. Stranahan is a journalist and co-author of several books, who writes primarily about energy and the environment. [2] Stranahan was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1972 to 2000 [2] and served on the newspaper's editorial board. [3] She was one of the recipients of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for journalism as lead reporter for a Philadelphia Inquirer team that covered the Three Mile Island accident. [4] [5] [6] [7] She has taught environmental writing at the University of Pennsylvania. [4]

In addition to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Stranahan has been published in media including The New York Times , The Washington Post , [8] Smithsonian , [9] Mother Jones . [10] Columbia Journalism Review , [11] Los Angeles Times , Fortune , Time , and Rolling Stone . [2]

She has written or co-authored several books. Her first book, Susquehanna, River of Dreams (1993), [12] is described as a classic [13] in environmental history. [14] [15]

Beyond the Flames (2000, with Larry King) documents the subsequent lives of fire fighters, policemen and paramedics who were exposed to toxic fumes while fighting a fire at an illegal chemical dump in Chester, Pennsylvania on February 2, 1978. [16] [17]

With David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman she co-wrote Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (New Press, 2014). [18] [19] [20] [21] Stranahan is credited with the book's "lucid and gripping narrative". [22]

Susan Q. Stranahan is a daughter of Common Pleas Court President Judge John Q. Stranahan and his wife Carol Scott Stranahan. [23] [24] She attended the College of Wooster, graduating in 1968, and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the college in 1996. [1] Stranahan currently resides in Chebeague Island, Maine. [25]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Susan Stranahan". Yale E360. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  3. ↑ Morrison, John F. (September 15, 2014). "Tony Auth, 72, Inquirer political cartoonist for 40 years". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Susan Q. Stranahan". The New Press. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Gambardello, Joseph A. (May 30, 2017). "Three Mile Island, a name that will live on in history". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local General or Spot News Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  7. ↑ "Three Mile Island's shadow: after 25 years, few reforms". The Baltimore Sun . April 3, 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Susan Q. Stranahan". muckrack.com. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "Articles by Susan Q. Stranahan from Smithsonian Magazine". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "Susan Q. Stranahan". Mother Jones. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "Susan Q. Stranahan Archive". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  12. ↑ Wheeler, Timothy B. (October 18, 1993). "In tribute to bay's largest 2 tributaries". The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "Susquehanna, River of Dreams". Susquehanna Greenway. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  14. ↑ Roberts, Strother E. (1 October 2012). "Changes in the Genre: A Brief Survey of Early Mid-Atlantic Environmental Histories". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 79 (4): 345–356. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.79.4.0345. S2CID   141606451 . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  15. ↑ Stranahan, Susan Q. (1993). Susquehanna, river of dreams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   9780801851476.
  16. ↑ Stranahan, Susan Q.; King, Larry (April 30, 2000). "An ordinary call to duty exacts a horrific price". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  17. ↑ Stranahan, Susan Q. (2000). Beyond the flames : one toxic dump, two decades of sorrow. [Philadelphia, Pa.]: [Philadelphia Inquirer]. ISBN   978-1588220035.
  18. ↑ Moyer, Justin (14 March 2014). "'Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster' by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and the Union of Concerned Scientists". The Washington Post . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  19. ↑ Hiltzik, Michael (21 February 2014). "'Fukushima' sounds warning on nuclear energy". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  20. ↑ Peplow, Mark (20 February 2014). "Meltdown, Redux" (PDF). Nature. Vol. 506. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  21. ↑ Lochbaum, David A.; Lyman, Edwin; Stranahan, Susan Q. (2014). Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster. New York: New Press. ISBN   9781620970843.
  22. ↑ "This week's reviews in brief". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . 2014-02-26. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  23. ↑ "John Q. Stranahan". Chebeague Island News. September 1, 2000.
  24. ↑ "Carol Scott Stranahan". Chebeague Island News. October 10, 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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