[Tart Cherry Jam]

I want to create a reading / audiobook listening 🎧 list that consists of workers by writers and poets who either have manic depressive illness or to whom, in the past, this illness is ascribed based on their diaries and other evidence.

I will start: I have read someplace that Hermann Hesse had bipolar.

Your turn.

When the thread dies out, I will collect all the contributions and produce and post the long list.

[MuddyBoots]

(most of these will not be proven)

Ernest Hemingway
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Virginia Woolf
Mark Vonnegut

I gotta say, Halsey (real name Ashley Frangipane I believe) is more of a pop star, but she wrote a pretty decent book of poetry. She claims to have bipolar, but her writing screams BPD a little more overall.

[June08]

I'm currently reading "That's Mental: Painfully Funny Things That Drive Me Crazy About Being Mentally Ill" by Amanda Rosenberg, who has bipolar II.

I also enjoyed "Puppy Chow is Better Than Prozac: The True Story of a Man and the Dog Who Saved His Life" by Bruce Goldstein. I'm not sure if he has bipolar I or II (not that it matters).

[Blueberrybook]

Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher; before that she wrote: Wasted (which is more a memoir of anorexia/bulimia, I can't remember how much it goes into her bipolar if she had the diagnosis when the book was writeen (read it long ago) though EDs often are linked with bipolar in particular; Wasted is triggering though if you have an ED history.

[unaluna]

Wasnt there some famous writer in the 80s got depressed and acted like he invented it? William Sturgis maybe? Something like that? I will check.

ETA - William Styron. He wrote Sophie's Choice.

So this old brain is still working!

There is a reddit with a lot of suggestions.

[Tart Cherry Jam]

Originally Posted by unaluna

Wasnt there some famous writer in the 80s got depressed and acted like he invented it? William Sturgis maybe? Something like that? I will check.

ETA - William Styron. He wrote Sophie's Choice.

So this old brain is still working!

There is a reddit with a lot of suggestions.

I watched the movie several years ago.

[MuddyBoots]

Ellen Forney also wrote this book called Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
I only saw it on the college campus library bookshelf and never read it, but I guess it's a memoir that talks about finding inspiration from other writers and artists with mood disorders like Vincent Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath.

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by Blueberrybook

Madness: A Bipolar Life By Marya Hornbacher; before that she wrote: Wasted (which is more a memoir of anorexia/bulimia, I can't remember how much it goes into her bipolar if she had the diagnosis when the book was writeen (read it long ago) though EDs often are linked with bipolar in particular; Wasted is triggering though if you have an ED history.

I have both these books! Love them.

[Nammu]

There’s Carie Fisher, all her books were like Plath’s. Semi autobiographical.