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    Who were four authors that committed suicide?

    Question #24242. Asked by hello.

    Ernest

    Hemingway is one...

    Nov 15 02, 5:06 AM
    Dunc

    Virginia Woolf
    Sedagh Hedayat
    Primo Levi
    John Kennedy Toole

    Nov 15 02, 7:34 AM
    quaxo

    Sylvia Plath is another.

    Nov 15 02, 7:55 PM
    Andy

    Also Vachel Lindsay, who decided to end it all by drinking a bottle of Lysol.

    Nov 17 02, 2:36 PM
    AbbyAdams

    John Berryman: Confessional poet, author of The Dream Songs, jumped off a bridge.

    Jerzy Kosinski: author of 'Being There' and 'The Painted Bird,' purposely ODed on depressants when he became sick in his 50s.

    Eleanor Marx: Karl Marx's daughter, wrote political and Marxist works, took cyanide when she found out her long-term lover secretly married someone else.

    Anne Sexton: another Confessional poet, best known for her play 'Mercy Street,' killed herself in a locked garage through carbon monoxide poisoning.

    Hunter S. Thompson: wrote 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' shot himself in the head.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kosinski

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Marx

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sexton

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

    [Five links added -- Zb]

    Jan 01 09, 6:44 PM

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