Turnbull, Andrew

ANDREW TURNBULL | POSTCARD TO SUSAN BLACK [SHEEHAN]

Postcard. Dated " June 25, 1962". From Andrew Turnbull addressed to Susan Black [Sheehan]. Typed inscription: "Dear Susan Black: Thank you for your appreciative words about my book. As you are a writer yourself, I don't have to tell you how gratifying it is to get that sort of response to one's labors. Sincerely," and signed by Andrew Turnbull. Has light age toning overall. Shelved in Room A General Ephemera.

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Special Collections

Price: $100

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.