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Author Strauss, Alix.

Title Death becomes them : unearthing the suicides of the brilliant, the famous, and the notorious / Alix Strauss.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  362.28092 STRAUSS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  362.2809 STRAUSS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages301-322).
Contents Introduction: unearthing greatness -- Grave intentions -- The art of the suicide note -- Authors -- Virginia Woolf -- Ernest Hemingway -- Hunter S. Thompson -- Sylvia Plath -- Anne Sexton -- Authors unearthed -- Actors -- Spalding Gray -- Peg Entwistle -- Dorothy Dandridge -- David Strickland -- Actors unearthed -- Musicians -- Ian Curtis -- Kurt Cobain -- Elliott Smith -- Michael Hutchence -- Musicians unearthed -- Artists -- Vincent van Gogh -- Diane Arbus -- Mark Rothko -- Artists unearthed -- Powerful people -- Adolf hitler -- Sigmund Freud -- Alan Turing -- Abbie Hoffman -- Powerful people unearthed -- Fascinating facts -- Ten questionable deaths you've heard of-- and ten you might not have -- Tan cases of suicide-- or murder? -- Not the suite life : ten hotel suicides -- Ten most notable suicides of sports figures -- Ten of the most bizarre & gruesome suicides -- A great love : the suicides of Cleopatra and Mark Antony -- Grave matters -- Attempted suicides.
Subject Celebrities -- Suicidal behavior.
Celebrities -- Death.
Entertainers -- Suicidal behavior.
Entertainers -- Death.
ISBN 9780061728563
006172856X
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