DREAMWalker Group
Where creativity and spirit converge

 

 

 
To assist you in finding books you enjoy reading, you can search this site for authors or artists and look at their profile pages:
 

By first name

By last name

By subjects

 

 

SPONSORS

A bridge supporting dialog

 

Michael Walker's Blog
(Awakened Man's World)

Our DREAMTeam

Email Us

 

 

Affiliates

Spiritual Cinema Circle

 

General Community:

Suicide

Sites on this page are related to the subject matter of this page or contain links to other sites offering additional  information.

Writers Who Write About Suicide

If an author does not presently have a link to a profile at DREAMWalker Group, kindly use the Amazon search box in the border to the left of this page to search for her or his (or related) books.

     
(We need your help! 
Let us know if you have related links for us to add!
Write us at dreamwalkergroup@me.com)

See also:

  • 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.

Writers Who Took Their Own Life

If an author does not presently have a link to a profile at DREAMWalker Group, kindly use the Amazon search box in the border to the left of this page to search for her or his (or related) books.

Ambrose Bierce
Anne Sexton
Arthur Koestler
David Foster Wallace
Ernest Hemingway
Ernst Toller
Eugene Izzi
George Sterling
Harry Crosby
Hart Crane
Henry de Montherlant

 

Hunter S. Thompson
Jack London
Jay Anthony Lukas
Jerzy Kosinski
John Berryman
John Davidson
John Kennedy Toole
Michael Dorris
Primo Levi
Randall Jarrell
Sara Teasdale
Sergey Yesenin

 

Seth Morgan
Sylvia Plath
T.E. Lawrence
Tom McHale
Ty Geltmaker (Italy)
Virginia Woolf
William Inge
Yukio Mishima

(We need your help! 
Let us know if you have related links for us to add!
Write us at dreamwalkergroup@me.com)

 

 

Websites Related to Suicide

  •  

(We need your help! 
Let us know if you have related links for us to add!
Write us at dreamwalkergroup@me.com)

Related Topics

General
Community Index

•Suicide

-- arts
-- disability
-- gay/lesbian/bi
-- general
-- literary
-- recovery
-- seniors
-- spirit
-- transgender

DREAMWaker Group is not incorporated as a non-profit organization.

Your donations help defray the cost of running this site but are not tax-deductible
as charitable expenses
.  See your tax consultant for more information.

Site Design and
Copyright © 2002-21 by
DREAMWalker Group
Email Us

Proprietor - Michael Walker  

Editorial - Catherine Groves  Michael Walker 

Layout & Design Michael Walker