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1. This author suffered the death of his daughter (and her husband) in a drowning accident and the institutionalization of another daughter for madness.
2. This author apparently didn't allow his marriage to his wife - and his thirteen children with her - to deter him from relationships with other women.
3. This author's wife became insane a few years after their marriage.
4. This author virtually confined himself voluntarily to a small room where he wrote his masterpiece.
5. Chekhov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Dowson and Novalis all suffered from this affliction.
6. This author lost his father at an early age, later ran off to sea, and was captured by a tribe of cannibals.
7. This author had the misfortune of never attaining a height in excess of four and one half feet.
8. This author died at the tender age of 37 after suffering an attack of rheumatic fever.
9. This author gave up writing novels (in favor of poetry) partly due to the outcry against one of his novels.
10. This author ended his career as a writer of poetry at age 18 or 19, then wandered through Europe and Africa. He had a leg amputated before his early death at age 37.
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