# Susannah Sheffer

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**Susannah Sheffer** is an author, editor, and activist, focusing on issues of [education](/source/Education), [prisons](/source/Prison), and the [death penalty](/source/Capital_punishment). She is a leader in the [unschooling](/source/Unschooling), [deschooling](/source/Deschooling), and [homeschooling](/source/Homeschooling) movement.[1] She served on the board of Holt Associates, edited the newsletter *[Growing Without Schooling](/source/Growing_Without_Schooling)* (*GWS*) for many years, and edited the book A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of [John Holt](/source/John_Holt_(American_educator)).[2][3][4] She is currently a staff member of North Star, an alternative to middle school and high school in [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts).[5]

Her books include *A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls*, *Writing Because We Love To: Homeschoolers at Work*, *In a Dark Time: A Prisoner's Struggle for Healing and Change*, and *Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experiences of Capital Defense Attorneys*. She has also published numerous articles, essays, and book chapters on related issues.[6]

## External links

- [Personal website](https://www.susannahsheffer.com/)
- [Susannah Sheffer](https://m.imdb.com/name/nm7248480/) on [IMDb](/source/IMDb)

## References

1. Lewin, Tamar (November 29, 1995). ["In Home Schooling, A New Type of Student"](https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/29/us/in-home-schooling-a-new-type-of-student.html). *The New York Times*. [Archived](https://archive.today/20221020181925/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/29/us/in-home-schooling-a-new-type-of-student.html) October 20, 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved December 2, 2018.

1. Growing without Schooling in Hern, M. (Ed.). (2008). *Everywhere all the time: A new deschooling reader*. AK Press.

1. "Reflections". *Growing Without Schooling*. **143**: 2. November–December 2001.

1. [Publishers Weekly review of A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, Sept 4, 1005, https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780867093575](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780867093575)

1. ["PEOPLE — North Star"](http://www.northstarteens.org/people/). *North Star*. Retrieved 2018-12-02.

1. ["SusannahSheffer"](https://www.susannahsheffer.com). *SusannahSheffer*. Retrieved 2018-12-02.

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