Most Disturbed Writers 20 items ranked
It's said that most great writers have a dark side. Here are examples that reinforce that theory.
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Franz Kafka
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Edgar Allan Poe
Poe's unstable state of mind led him to incoherently wander the streets of Baltimore and die shortly after.
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Virginia Woolf
Woolf was tortured throughout her life, which ended in 1941 when she filled her pockets with stones and jumped into a river.
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Philip Dick
Dick was diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered from nervous breakdowns.
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Truman Capote
Heavy drug and alcohol use led Capote to become a moody recluse.
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Jack Kerouac
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Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy suffered from frequent and increasingly strong depressive episodes.
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Richard Brautigan
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Ernest Hemingway
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Patricia Cornwell
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Charles Dickens
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Sylvia Plath
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Marquis de Sade
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Jonathan Swift
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Stephen Fry
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Allen Ginsburg
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Graham Greene
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Dylan Thomas
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