Straw, Tom

BUZZ KILLER [Signed] [with] ALS TO SUSAN SHEEHAN

[n.p.]: [n.p.], 2017. First Edition. Octavo, 319 pages. In Very Good condition. Red spine with white lettering. Pictorial covers with light wear. Textblock has light shelf wear. Inscribed "To Susan Sheehan per kindness of Jill Krementy with all best wishes" and signed by Tom Straw on the title page. Includes an additional hand-written note addressed to Susan from Tom Straw laid-in. Shelved in Room F.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $50

NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (born 1937) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.