Susan Q. Stranahan

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]

C-SPAN, April 15, 2014
"After Words"

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]