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She contributed the Ohio chapter in State By State (2008), and in 2011 she published a biographical history of the dog actor Rin Tin Tin titled Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend. She also served as editor for Best American Essays 2005 and Best American Travel Writing 2007.

Her previously published magazine stories have been compiled in two collections, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People and My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere.

In 1999, she co-wrote The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows About Dieting (And Won't Tell You!) under her married name, Susan Sistrom. That article, a feature on a group of young surfer girls in Maui, was the basis of the film Blue Crush. She also wrote the Women's Outside article "Life's Swell", published in 1998. The movie portrayed her becoming Laroche's lover and partner in a drug production operation, in which orchids were processed into a psychoactive substance. Orlean (portrayed by Meryl Streep, who won a Golden Globe for the performance) was, in effect, made into a fictional character. The book formed the basis of Charlie Kaufman's script for the Spike Jonze film Adaptation. Orlean authored the book The Orchid Thief, a profile of Florida orchid grower, breeder and collector John Laroche. She started contributing to The New Yorker in 1987 and became a staff writer in 1992. Her first book, Saturday Night, was published in 1990, shortly after she moved to New York City from Boston and began writing for The New Yorker magazine. In 1982, she became a staff writer for the Boston Phoenix and later a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Orlean has published stories in Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vogue, Outside and Spy. After college she moved to Portland, Oregon, and was planning on going to law school, when she began writing for the Willamette Week. Orlean graduated from the University of Michigan with honors in 1976, studying literature and history. Her father was an attorney and businessman. Her mother's family is from Hungary and her father's family from Poland. Orlean was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the daughter of Edith (née Gross 1923–2016) and Arthur Orlean (1915–2007). Meryl Streep received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Orlean. Orlean authored the 1998 non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, which was adapted into the film Adaptation (2002). In 2021, Orlean joined the writing team of HBO comedy series How To with John Wilson. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is a journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.