Susan Orlean

Quick Facts

Full Name	Susan Orlean
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Oct 31, 1955(1955-10-31)
Age	69
Birthplace	Cleveland
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Libra

Susan Orlean Biography

Susan Orlean is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on October 31, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. New Yorker staff writer and non-fiction author best known for her novel The Orchid Thief, with it being the basis for the film Adaptation. She has also published in the magazines Esquire as well as Rolling Stone.

Meryl Streep portrayed a fictionalized version of Orlean in Adaptation, a role that earned her a Golden Globe. portrays a fictionalized character of Orlean in Adaptation in a part which earned her an award of a Golden Globe.

Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is a journalist and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside.

She graduated from the University of Michigan with honors in 1976, studying literature and history. After college she moved to Portland, Oregon, and was planning on going to law school, when she began writing for the Willamette Week. She married lawyer Peter Sistrom in 1983, and they divorced after 16 years of marriage. She was introduced by a friend to author and businessman John Gillespie, whom she married in 2001, and she gave birth to their son Austin in 2004.

The couple was together for a time Peter Sistrom from 1983-1999. She got married to John Gillespie in 2001 and has a step-son and a son.

Susan Orlean Net Worth

Susan Orlean is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Susan Orlean 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student of literature and history in the University of Michigan, after when she began working for Willamette Weekly in Oregon. Her first book was published, Saturday Night, in 1990.

An article from 1998 on a group of surfing girls, was the an inspiration to create Blue Crush. Her academic achievements include the Nieman Fellow at Harvard and the honorary degree of a doctor from Michigan as well as an honorary Guggenheim Fellowship.

Orlean was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the daughter of Edith (née Gross 1923–2016) and Arthur Orlean (1915–2007). She has a sister, Debra, and a brother, David. Her family is Jewish. Her mother’s family is from Hungary and her father’s family from Poland. Her father was an attorney and businessman.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Susan Orlean Dating?

According to our records, Susan Orlean married to John William Gillespie, Jr.. As of December 1, 2023, Susan Orlean’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1999, she co-wrote The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows About Dieting (And Won’t Tell You!) under her married name, Susan Sistrom. Her previously published magazine stories have been compiled in two collections, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People and My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere. She also served as editor for Best American Essays 2005 and Best American Travel Writing 2007. She contributed the Ohio chapter in State By State (2008), and in 2011 she published a biographical history of the dog actor Rin Tin Tin titled Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend.

Facts & Trivia

Susan Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Susan Orlean celebrates birthday on October 31 of every year.

Is Susan Orlean real?

No, the true story reveals that in real life Susan Orlean did not develop any sort of intimate relationship with the orchid thief, John Laroche.

Where did Susan Orlean go to college?

University of Michigan

Where is Susan Orlean from?

Cleveland, OH

How old is Susan Orlean?

66 years (October 31, 1955)

Did Susan Orlean sleep with John Laroche?

Orlean said. She swears she never slept with Mr. Laroche , never took drugs with him, never tried to kill anyone and never met Mr. Kaufman while he was working on the script.