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Susan Q. Stranahan
EmployerPhiladelphia Inquirer
Writing career
Alma materCollege of Wooster, 1968[1]
SubjectJournalism
Notable awards1980 Pulitzer Prize
C-SPAN, April 15, 2014
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Susan Q. Stranahan is a journalist and co-author of several books, who writes primarily about energy and the environment.[2] Stranahan was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1972 to 2000[2] and served on the newspaper's editorial board.[3] She was one of the recipients of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for journalism as lead reporter for a Philadelphia Inquirer team that covered the Three Mile Island accident.[4][5][6][7] She has taught environmental writing at the University of Pennsylvania.[4]

In addition to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Stranahan has been published in media including The New York Times, The Washington Post,[8] Smithsonian,[9] Mother Jones.[10] Columbia Journalism Review,[11] Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Time, and Rolling Stone.[2]

She has written or co-authored several books. Her first book, Susquehanna, River of Dreams (1993),[12] is described as a classic[13] in environmental history.[14][15]

Beyond the Flames (2000, with Larry King) documents the subsequent lives of fire fighters, policemen and paramedics who were exposed to toxic fumes while fighting a fire at an illegal chemical dump in Chester, Pennsylvania on February 2, 1978.[16][17]

With David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman she co-wrote Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (New Press, 2014).[18][19][20][21] Stranahan is credited with the book's "lucid and gripping narrative".[22]

Susan Q. Stranahan is a daughter of Common Pleas Court President Judge John Q. Stranahan and his wife Carol Scott Stranahan.[23][24] She attended the College of Wooster, graduating in 1968, and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the college in 1996.[1] Stranahan currently resides in Chebeague Island, Maine.[25]

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  1. ^ a b "Distinguished Alumni Award". The College of Wooster. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Susan Stranahan". Yale E360. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  3. ^ Morrison, John F. (September 15, 2014). "Tony Auth, 72, Inquirer political cartoonist for 40 years". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Susan Q. Stranahan". The New Press. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  5. ^ Gambardello, Joseph A. (May 30, 2017). "Three Mile Island, a name that will live on in history". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  6. ^ "The 1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Local General or Spot News Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Three Mile Island's shadow: after 25 years, few reforms". The Baltimore Sun. April 3, 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Susan Q. Stranahan". muckrack.com. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Articles by Susan Q. Stranahan from Smithsonian Magazine". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Susan Q. Stranahan". Mother Jones. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Susan Q. Stranahan Archive". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  12. ^ Wheeler, Timothy B. (October 18, 1993). "In tribute to bay's largest 2 tributaries". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Susquehanna, River of Dreams". Susquehanna Greenway. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  14. ^ Roberts, Strother E. (1 October 2012). "Changes in the Genre: A Brief Survey of Early Mid-Atlantic Environmental Histories". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 79 (4): 345–356. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.79.4.0345. S2CID 141606451. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  15. ^ Stranahan, Susan Q. (1993). Susquehanna, river of dreams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801851476.
  16. ^ Stranahan, Susan Q.; King, Larry (April 30, 2000). "An ordinary call to duty exacts a horrific price". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  17. ^ Stranahan, Susan Q. (2000). Beyond the flames : one toxic dump, two decades of sorrow. [Philadelphia, Pa.]: [Philadelphia Inquirer]. ISBN 978-1588220035.
  18. ^ Moyer, Justin (14 March 2014). "'Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster' by David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman, Susan Q. Stranahan, and the Union of Concerned Scientists". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  19. ^ Hiltzik, Michael (21 February 2014). "'Fukushima' sounds warning on nuclear energy". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  20. ^ Peplow, Mark (20 February 2014). "Meltdown, Redux" (PDF). Nature. Vol. 506. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  21. ^ Lochbaum, David A.; Lyman, Edwin; Stranahan, Susan Q. (2014). Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster. New York: New Press. ISBN 9781620970843.
  22. ^ "This week's reviews in brief". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2014-02-26. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  23. ^ "John Q. Stranahan". Chebeague Island News. September 1, 2000.
  24. ^ "Carol Scott Stranahan". Chebeague Island News. October 10, 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  25. ^ Stranahan, Susan Q. (29 July 2020). "Not Aging, But Thriving In Place". Island Journal. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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