# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susannah-cahalan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:53:57.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susannah-cahalan"
name: "Susannah Cahalan"
slug: "susannah-cahalan"
description: "Susannah Cahalan is an American writer and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, about her hospitalization with a rare autoimmune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. Her second and third books, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness and The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, were published in 2019 and 2025, respectively. She also works as a writer for the New York Post. Cahalan's work has raised awareness for her brain disease, making it more well-known."
tagline: "American journalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Susannah_Cahalan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1985"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.308324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "scahalan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5584882/"
    handle:    "nm5584882"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.susannahcahalan.com/"
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    title: "سوسنہ کاہلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سوزانا كاهالان"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susannah_Cahalan"
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    title: "Susannah Cahalan"
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    title: "Սյուզաննա Կահալան"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump