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Susan Ruth Nussbaum (December 12, 1953 – April 28, 2022) was an American actress, author, playwright, and disability rights activist. Early life and education. Nussbaum was born in Chicago and raised in nearby Highland Park, the daughter of Mike Nussbaum and Annette Brenner Nussbaum. Her ...
12 de may. de 2022 · Susan Nussbaum, a playwright and novelist whose work reflected her concern for the rights of people with disabilities, died on April 28 at her home in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. She was 68.
29 de abr. de 2022 · In person, on stage or on the page, Susan Nussbaum was a delight, a ferociously talented actor, writer and passionate disability activist. She could be, when appropriate, deadly serious, but she ...
30 de may. de 2013 · Susan Nussbaum’s next act. The celebrated playwright and disability rights activist put down her pen for nearly a decade. But in a new novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, she picks back up where she ...
12 de may. de 2022 · Circle Stories: Susan Nussbaum by Riva Lehrer (1998). "I painted Susan on her balcony, amid a rain of falling objects—a shoe, a compact, a pencil, a burning wheel—each a symbol of who she was ...
22 de may. de 2013 · ABOVE: SUSAN NUSSBAUM. PHOTO COURTESY OF SUZANNE PLUNKETT “The least they could do is to take care of us and make sure nobody gets beat up or raped or left in the shower by mistake and killed,” says Yessenía Lopez, perhaps the most charismatic of the eight narrators in Susan Nussbaum’s debut novel, Good Kings Bad Kings (Algonquin).
8 de sept. de 2013 · Susan Nussbaum’s first novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, pursues a similar undertaking in detailing the specifics of abuse endemic to contemporary nursing homes for children and youth with disabilities. Such state-sponsored spaces of exclusion did not disappear from the social landscape, but have gone underground, so-to-speak, in the for-profit warehousing of human beings industry.
