Bipolar Geniuses: Lord Byron
“She walks in beauty like the night.” We’ve all heard that poem. It was written by Lord Byron, the 19th-century English poet, a man who also struggled with manic depression.
SoberHeroes: Stephen King
There’s blood on his typewriter. Dope-nose blood. Stephen King, the master of horror, is binge-writing and binge-snorting cocaine.
Bipolar Geniuses: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Author of nine novels, six short story compilations, and 14 nonfiction books, Woolf is one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. And she was very self-aware of her mental illness.
Bipolar Geniuses: Edgar Allan Poe
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank – God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
