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Susan Q. Stranahan | |
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| Employer | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Writing career | |
| Alma mater | College of Wooster, 1968 [1] |
| Subject | Journalism |
| Notable awards | 1980 Pulitzer Prize |
| C-SPAN, April 15, 2014 | |
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 "After Words" |
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]
