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Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors
(1999) by Mark Seinfelt and Paul West
Some of the greatest writers in the history of
the art-Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosinski, Sylvia Plath,
Anne Sexton, and Virginia Woolf - all chose to silence themselves by
suicide, leaving their families and friends with heartbreak and the
world of literature with gaping holes. Their reasons for killing
themselves, when known, were varied and, quite often, unreasonable.
Some were plagued by depression or self-doubt, and others by
frustration and helplessness in a world they could neither change nor
tolerate. Profoundly moving and morbidly attractive, "Final Drafts" is
a necessary historical record, biographical treatment, and
psychological examination of the authors who left this 'cruel world'
by their own hands, either instantly or over long periods of
relentless self-destructive behavior. It is also a devoted examination
of references to suicide in literature, both by those who took their
own lives and those who decided to live.
Mark Seinfelt has selected many well-known (mostly fiction) writers,
from those whose work dates to over a century ago - when the medical
community was ill-equipped to deal with substance abuse and depression
- to more recent writers such as Kosinski, Michael Dorris, and Eugene
Izzi, who have left a puzzled literary community with a sad legacy.
Seinfelt reveals that many authors contemplated ending their lives in
their work; were obsessed with destroying themselves; were unable-in
the case of the Holocaust-to live with the fact that their
contemporaries had been killed; believed death to be a freedom from
the horrors that forced them to create; and, sometimes, were simply
unable to withstand rejection or criticism of their work.
Other noted authors discussed in this volume include John Berryman,
Ambrose Bierce, Harry Crosby, John Davidson, William Inge, Randall
Jarrell, Arthur Koestler, T.E. Lawrence, Primo Levi, Jack London, Jay
Anthony Lukas, Tom McHale, Yukio Mishima, Henry de Montherlant, Seth
Morgan, George Sterling, Sara Teasdale, Ernst Toller, John Kennedy
Toole, Sergey Yesenin, and many others.
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