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Dorothy Parker: the Life of an Attempted Suicide (IN: Why Women Kill Themselves, ed. by D Lester)
Lester D
This article presents a biography of writer Dorothy Parker, who attempted suicide twice, but never completed suicide. The author discusses possible psychological features which prompted the attempts. He also compares Parker’s life with 2 other famous women, Virginia Woolf & Marilyn Monroe, both who committed suicide. He concludes both Woolf & Monroe had mental disorders, but Parker was not as psychiatrically disturbed. (VM)