THE COLUMNIST
New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2012. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo, 99 pages. In Very Good condition. White spine with black titling. Covers have light soiling, and creasing to the front bottom corner. Textblock has a pencil mark to page 44. Contains a hand-written ink letter addressed to "Mr. Sheehan" and signed by "Steve". Shelved in Room F.
1413595
Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $75
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David Auburn (b.1969) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director. He is best known for his 2000 play Proof, which won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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.