Susan Southard
Susan Southard’s first book, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, received the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize in Nonfiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. It was also named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, the Economist, and the American Library Association. Southard’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, TomDispatch, and Lapham’s Quarterly.
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