Suzy Hansen

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Suzy Hansen
Born1978 (age 4546) [notes 1]
Education University of Pennsylvania (BA)
OccupationJournalist
Notable workNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World
Website suzyhansen.com

Suzy Hansen (born 1978) is an American writer. Her book Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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Early life and education

Hansen was born in Wall Township, New Jersey, to parents of Danish, Italian, and Irish descent. [2] She attended Wall High School [3] and the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate degree. [4]

Career

After earning her degree, she worked as an editor at The New York Observer until 2007, when she received a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to conduct research in Turkey. [5] While in Istanbul, she realized many misconceptions of how Americans view themselves versus how outsiders view them. This was the basis for her 2017 book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World. [6] Her debut book about American misconceptions post 9/11 was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [7]

She also visited Greece, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan to investigate how American influence caused trouble and misfortune for civilians in these countries. [8] [9]

In 2020, she accepted a visiting professorship position at Princeton University as their Ferris Professor of Journalism. [10]

She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and Practitioner-in-Residence at New York University’s Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. [11]

Bibliography

Books

Articles

Notes

  1. In 2007, Hansen was reported to be 29 [1]

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