Susan Orlean is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of multiple bestselling books, including The Orchid Thief, which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation.

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The next book from Susan Orlean (Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief) is officially on the way, EW can announce exclusively. After years and years of research, the best-selling author has written The ...

When author Susan Orlean moved to Los Angeles, people asked her if she had visited the beautiful library downtown. She didn’t even know there was a downtown. But soon she learned about the history of ...

Orlean (The Orchid Thief ) hasn't so much been everywhere as she's been everywhere no one else has thought to go. In this collection, she focuses not on cities but on singular locales and events. She ...

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And now, the game where we ask interesting people about things that do not interest them at all. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: Susan Orlean is one of the most successful nonfiction authors in America ...

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Susan Orlean had recently moved to Los Angeles and was taking a tour of the main branch of that city’s public library when the man guiding her around took a book off a shelf, cracked it open, and ...

That was the opening salvo author and journalist Susan Orlean tweeted at 8:46 p.m. Friday. Less than two hours later, she would be a top trend on Twitter. “WHO IS SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYTHING,” Orlean ...

After nearly a decade of research, animal lover and famed author Susan Orlean has written a comprehensive biography of arguably America's most loved dog, Rin Tin Tin. Found by a young American soldier ...

Author Susan Orlean was inspired by 1980s rocker Jon Bon Jovi when writing about a prize-winning pooch. When penning her 1995 essay about show dog Biff Truesdale — included in her new collection, “On ...