Susan Orlean (born 1955) is an American journalist and author, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include The Orchid Thief, which inspired the film Adaptation, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Rin Tin Tin, The Library Book, about the 1986 Los Angeles Central Library fire, and the memoir Joyride.
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Susan Orlean (born 1955) is an American journalist and author, a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include The Orchid Thief, which inspired the film Adaptation, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Rin Tin Tin, The Library Book, about the 1986 Los Angeles Central Library fire, and the memoir Joyride.
