Susannah Cahalan is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. Brain on Fire has sold over a million copies and has been translated into over 20 languages. She devotes a great deal of her time to advocacy work. She was a founding member of the Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance and is an international ambassador for the UK's Encephalitis Society. Her newest book "The Great Pretender" investigates a famous study about undercover psychiatric patients. NPR wrote that "The Great Pretender" "cements Cahalan's place in the ranks of the country's sharpest writers of nonfiction," Nature called it an "engrossing, dismaying book," and Psychology Today named it "the book of the decade." Her work has appeared in the New York Post, the New York Times, The New Scientist, Elle Magazine, and various academic journals including The Lancet and Biological Psychiatry.

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