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CRRL Picks: Authors Who Suffer from Mental Illness

You don't have to have a mental disorder to be a great author, but those lightning leaps of imagination and hours spent constructing fascinating stories, multi-layered in meaning and unique in style, can sometimes be linked to mental illness.

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  • Book, 2017New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, 2017. — 921 Hemin
  • Hemingway's Boat

    Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

    Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-
    Book, 2011New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2011], ©2011. — 921 Hemin
  • Book, 2007Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics, [2007], ©2007. — 921 Kafka
  • A Life of One's Own

    Nine Women Writers Begin Again

    Biggs, Joanna
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — 920 Bi
  • Red Comet

    the Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

    Clark, Heather L.
    Book, 2020New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — 921 Plath
  • Book, 2009Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2009. — 921 Plath
  • Three-martini Afternoons at the Ritz

    the Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton

    Crowther, Gail
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021. — 920 Cr
  • Book, 2005Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, Inc., [2005], ©2005. — 823.009 Woo