Writers who committed suicide

(Ana Cristina César) * A Teus Pés ...more on Wikipedia about "Ana Cristina César"

Anne Sexton ( November 9, 1928– October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anne Sexton"

Arthur Adamov ( 23 August 1908 - 15 March 1970) was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Adamov"

Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake ( March 26, 1866 - found dead May 10, 1892) was an Australian poet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barcroft Boake"

Joseph Daniel 'Danny' Casolaro ( 1947 - 1991) was a journalist who carried out a lengthy investigation of a broad-ranging conspiracy related to the Inslaw affair. He believed he was uncovering evidence pointing to a massive, global conspiracy that he began to call "The Octopus". As he learned of more and more mysterious deaths related to the affair, Danny warned his brother, "If anything happens to me, don't believe it's an accident." ...more on Wikipedia about "Danny Casolaro"

Ernest Miller Hemingway ( July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted a significant influence on the development of twentieth century fiction. Hemingway's protagonists are typically stoic male individuals, often interpreted as projections of his own character, who must master "grace under pressure". Many of his works, like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, are now considered classics in the canon of American literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ernest Hemingway"

Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov ( 18 February 1924— 21 March 1979) was a Marxist author and renowned Soviet philosopher who did important original work on the materialist development of Hegel's dialectics. His works include Dialectical Logic (1977), Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism (1982) and The Dialectics of the Abstract and Concrete in Marx's Capital (1982). The latter two works were published posthumously as Ilyenkov committed suicide in 1979. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evald Ilyenkov"

Gary Webb ( August 31, 1955 – December 10, 2004) was a celebrated and controversial American investigative journalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gary Webb"

Gherasim Luca (or Gherashim Luca) ( July 23 1913, Bucharest - February 9, 1994, Paris) was a Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet, frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gherasim Luca"

Harold Hart Crane ( July 21, 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio, United States – April 27, 1932, in the Gulf of Mexico) was a U.S. poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote poetry that was traditional in form, difficult and often archaic in language, and which sought to express something more than the ironic despair that Crane found in Eliot's poetry. Though frequently condemned as being difficult beyond comprehension, Crane has proved in the long run to be one of the most influential poets of his generation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hart Crane"

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist ( October 18, 1777 - November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist and novelist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heinrich von Kleist"

Hunter Stockton Thompson ( July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He was known for his flamboyant writing style, most notably in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and nonfiction. He is the creator of gonzo journalism and, as such, is widely imitated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hunter S. Thompson"

Iris Shun-Ru Chang ( Traditional Chinese: 張純如, Simplified Chinese: 张纯如; Pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was a freelance Chinese American historian and journalist. She was best known for her popular but controversial account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide in 2004 after suffering from depression. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iris Chang"

Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote You Can't Win, a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an honorable outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight but is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book. Jack Black was writing from experience, having had plenty of experience in petty crime himself for which he did time in jail. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Black (author)"

Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki ( 1761- 1815) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic), capitan, engineer of the Crown Army, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, and author. His colorful life led him across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, where he embroiled himself in political intrigues, flirted with secret societies, contributed to the birth of ethnology (he was one of the first to study the relationship of the Slavic peoples from a linguistic and historical point of view), and even rode the first hot air balloon in Poland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jan Potocki"

Jean Améry ( October 21, 1912 - October 17 1978) was an Austrian of Jewish descent. He was born in Vienna, Austria as Hans Maier. He lived in Hohenems, a small resort city in the state of Vorarlberg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean Améry"

John Berryman (originally John Smith) ( October 25, 1914 - January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He is one of the figures acting as a bridge between the formally loose, socially aware poetry of the Beats and the personal, grieving poetry of Sylvia Plath. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which are playful, witty, and morbid. Berryman died by suicide in 1972. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Berryman"

John O'Brien ( May 21, 1960 – April 10, 1994) was an American author. His first novel Leaving Las Vegas was published in 1990 by Watermark Press and made into a film in 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "John O'Brien (novelist)"

John William Polidori ( September 7, 1795 - August 24, 1821) is credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess. He had three brothers and four sisters. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Polidori"

Karin Boye is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Sw. "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Sw. "I rörelse") from her collections of poems "The Hearths" (Sw. "Härdarna"), 1927, and "For the tree's sake" (Sw. "För trädets skull"), 1935. She was also a member of the Swedish literary institution Samfundet De Nio (chair number 6) from 1931 until her death in 1941. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karin Boye"

Kevin Carter ( September 13, 1961- July 27, 1994) was a South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kevin Carter"

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Osamu Dazai (太宰治 Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 in Aomori Prefecture - June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Osamu Dazai"

Paul Celan ( November 23, 1920, in Cernăuţi, then in Romania – approximately April 20, 1970, in Paris), was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel (a pseudonym composed of an anagram of the Romanian spelling of his surname, Ancel), one of the few major poets of the post- World War II era. Celan is widely considered the finest European lyric poet of the latter half of the 20th century: certainly, he is one of the most astonishingly profound, powerful, innovative and original poets of the century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Celan"

Penelope Delta (Πηνελόπη Δέλτα) ( 1874– 27 April, 1941) is a Greek author of books for older children. ...more on Wikipedia about "Penelope Delta"

This article is about the Roman author Petronius. For other uses of the name, see Petronius (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Petronius"

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