Committed to McLean Hospital to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression; suffers from borderline personality disorder (1967).
Attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. Her mother was of Austrian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
Paternal granddaughter of Samuel Kaysen and Elizabeth Resnick Kaysen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Daughter of Carl Kaysen, an academic, policy advisor, and international security specialist, at MIT, and Annette Neutra Kaysen. Stepdaughter of Ruth Butler. Sister of Jesse Kaysen. Paternal niece of Flora Kaysen Penaranda.
Attended and graduated from the Cambridge School in Weston, Massachusetts (1967).