Stephen Boone - 2007-10-02 20:50:05
perhaps you don't consider phil ochs a poet, who hung himself in his garage. If, like many others, you know only his pathetic protest music, I don't blame you.

Cornelia Shields - 2007-10-06 06:49:40
You might check out the Bronte sisters as well. I think two sisters and the brother died in a row, at age 27, 28, and 29, of consumption. Charlotte Bronte was a little older - 38 - and not sure whether she died just of consumption or of that and something else.

Angry Net Guy - 2007-10-06 11:34:16
Weldon Kees (1914-1955?) American author, musician, and painter - Car found next to Golden Gate Bridge. Presumed to have jumped off it.

J Bazin - 2007-10-07 13:26:28
John Kennedy Toole, blew his brains out in a car because he couldn't get his book published. Won Pulitzer Prize.

shannon - 2007-10-08 18:57:31
Hello, I was directed to your Literary Deaths page today & noticed that you were looking for the birth/death dates for John O'Brien. His date of birth is May 21 1960. Date of death is April 1994, either the 11 or the 13. I've seen both listed.

alea - 2007-10-24 12:40:00
What about Jack Keruoac?

Kevin - 2008-01-27 20:04:27
Anne Sexton (1928-74), truth-telling autobiographical poet, committed suicide by running a garden hose from a car tailpipe into her garaged car just before the publication of her last (and perhaps best) book, probably because she claimed in a poem that her father had raped her (a lie).

Karl Kahler - 2008-02-18 02:11:10
Kurt Cobain [1967-1994] American Poet - The most influential musician of the 1990s, the 27-year-old father of grunge and the gifted lyricist of the dark side ("It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings") filled his veins with heroin and used his toe to shoot himself in the head with a shotgun. "And I swear that I don't have a gun...."

C. Riley - 2008-03-22 02:33:41
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) - Shot himself while on the phone with his wife.

tam - 2008-03-24 03:27:20
Kurt Cobain didn't kill himself, don't feel bad, it is a common misconception. The truth is he was murdered by Courtney Love, his wife. He was going to divorce her and leave her with nothing, so she shot him and got everything. But seriously do you really think someone could shoot them self with their toe and with a shotgun of all things? It is physically impossible.

Seth - 2008-03-31 01:34:17
Don't forget Aeschylus [c525-c456 B.C.] Greek Poet who, according to legend, was killed when a vulture dropped a tortoise on his bald head, thinking it was a rock.

Anonymous - 2008-04-01 12:47:33
Kurt Cobain was a musician not a poet. And yes- you can shoot yourself using your toe.

concerned citizen - 2008-04-28 09:05:12
some of these events seem to be exaggerated....just to name one, Seth Morgan ran his motorcycle into a wall in New Orleans, he did not drive it off the Golden Gate Bridge into the SF Bay!

Mark Western - 2008-05-20 12:55:00
John Kennedy Toole did not "blow his brains out", he drove to Biloxi, parked in the woods and ran a section of hose from tailpipe to inside car. Death from carbon monoxide poisining.

3 mopre authors - 2008-08-15 19:07:55
must not forget Gerard De Nerval French author who went clinically insane and was famous for walking lobsters around town on leashes, he hung hiself from grating in paris, also check into Russian Poets Mayakovsk (suicide) and Yesenin (suicide)