Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner

Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

by Susan Sheehan

Summary

A detailed and compassionate year-long study of a single patient's journey through the American mental health system, documenting her struggle with schizophrenia.

Historical Context & Significance

Sheehan utilized a "deep immersion" style of journalism, spending hundreds of hours with her subject to expose the failures of deinstitutionalization.