Novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer has passed away. She was 71-years-old.
Her best known titles include Anya (1974), The Madness of a Seduced Woman (1984) and Buffalo Afternoon (1989). For that last title, she interviewed Vietnam War veterans; the novel received great critical acclaim. Schaeffer (pictured, via) served as an English professor at Brooklyn College for three decades.
Here’s more from The New York Times: “‘I did not find it difficult to write about men in war,’ she wrote in a statement for her publisher, W. W. Norton. ‘Everyone believed it could not be done by a woman — as if men would somehow be alien beings to a member of the opposite sex. I have never understood that attitude.'” (via Dumbo Books of Brooklyn)