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What are some good authors who commited suicide?

>> No.1081378

There's a wiki category for this you could look up.

More interesting: Why do you want to know good suicidal authors?

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>> No.1081383
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rip ;_;

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>> No.1081402

>>1081383
troll harder

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>>1081375
Probably my favorite.

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This motherfucker.

>> No.1081420

>>1081419
good?

>> No.1081426

>>1081419
lol so randum xd

>> No.1081444

Yasunari Kawabata did the deed in his 70's.

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Koestler

Darkness at Noon is awesome

>> No.1081464

>>1081378
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_who_committed_suicide

>> No.1081467

John Kennedy Toole up in this.

Captcha: blueng "Empfindungen".... I kid you not...

>> No.1081471

>>1081402
You have to admit he's doing a good job committing career suicide by taking so long over ADWD. Guy's flushing away millions of dollars.

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I agree with OPs choice.

>> No.1081659

>>1081464

The fact that this necessitates a wikipedia category worries me. Why are writers so suicide prone?

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>>1081659

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_portraying_paedophilia_or_sexual_abuse_of_minors

>> No.1081670

df wallace.
plath.
j.k. toole.
r. akutagawa.
hemingway.
and of course mishima.

these are the ones i could think of.

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>>1081659

>> No.1081690

>>1081659
Ever tried writing a novel? Do it and you'll see.

>> No.1081697

Tor Ulven

>> No.1081709

Hart Crane.

>> No.1081717

>>1081670

authors commit suicide because their profession is so boring and trivial, they wish they could've been scientists or engineers and done something meaningful with their lives

im generalizing this is only true 52% of the time

>> No.1081722

Hunter S. Thompson.

>> No.1081742

>>1081659

they're not.. they're just more available to the public eye and thus their suicides are easily recorded.

i'm sure bank managers are more prone to suicide

>> No.1081755

>>1081404

He was murdered you fucking idiot. You think that he'll just die randomly so young you piece of shit?

>> No.1081872

>>1081722
i lol'd

>> No.1081878

Yukio Mishima was murdered too.

murdered by liberalism

>> No.1081886

Primo Levi

>> No.1081994

Anne Sexton
Osamu Dazai
and Kurt Vonnegut tried it

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>>1081401