Susan Orlean is a writer for The New Yorker whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues.
Also author of books including The Orchid Thief, which formed the basis of the Charlie Kaufman-Spike Jonze film Adaptation. (Orlean was played by Meryl Streep.) She also wrote the Women's Outside article, "Life's Swell" (published 1998), which was the basis for the movie Blue Crush. The article was a feature on a group of young surfer girls on the island of Maui.
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