Susannah Cahalan is an award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and public speaker. Her 2012 memoir, Brain on Fire has sold over a million copies and was made into a Netflix original movie. Her second book, The Great Pretender, made an array of "Best-Of" lists and was shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society's Science Book Award. She has written for The New York Times, The New York Post , Elle , The New Scientist , and BBC's Focus , as well as academic journals The Lancet and Biological Psychiatry.