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Susan Cain P ‘28
Crown Publishers
2012

Susan Cain’s award-winning New York Times bestseller is currently being translated into over thirty-five languages and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine.

Cain’s book was the subject of a TIME magazine cover story, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Cain has also spoken at Microsoft, Google, the U.S. Treasury, Harvard and West Point. Her record-smashing TED talk has been viewed over 5 million times, and was named by Bill Gates as one of his all-time favorite talks.

Cain is the recipient of several awards, including the Toastmasters International Golden Gavel Award for Communication and Leadership, and Harvard Law School’s Celebration Award for Thought Leadership. She is an honors graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. She lives in the Hudson River Valley with her husband and two sons, one of whom attends D-E.

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