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Appendix Table 1. Journalist-Literary Figures and Their Traumatic Experiences Raised w/ psychologically ill, alcoholic parent*/ Military from broken family#/ experience*/ Experience death of spouse, war reporting#/ as minority* Lost Abandonment*/ children, siblings war trauma+/ Suicide*/ and/or parent harsh, abusive while young+/ lost child or Mental Job trauma Alcohol suicide gay-bisexual or while rearing#/ traumatic divorce, sibling in health as journalists/ or drug attempt or dealing with young* sexual abuse+ marriage, affair^ military^ problem* writers* problem* Sanitorium* thoughts# rumors about# Henry Adams + * * # Joseph Addison * James Agee * * # * * * # Conrad Aiken * * * * * # Sherwood Anderson * * * * Maya Angelou * + * # * * # * Gertrude Atherton * # + Djuna Barnes * # + * * * * # # James M. Barrie * + * * * Brendan Behan * + * # Robert Benchley * # * + ^ * * Ambrose Bierce * + * + * * * # Lillie Devereux Blake * * + # Nellie Bly * * * James Boswell * * * Mary Elizabeth Braddon # * Jimmy Breslin * * * Vera Brittain + ^ * Heywood Broun * * * * Charles Bukowski # * * # Erskine Caldwell # * * * Truman Capote * # * # * * * # [44.204.164.147] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:51 GMT) Philip Caputo * # + * * Angela Carter * * Willa Cather * * # Raymond Chandler * * * * * * # Susan Cheever * * * Charles Chesnutt # * * G. K. Chesterton + * * # Lydia Maria Child * # * Samuel T. Coleridge * * * * * * Hart Crane * # * # * * * # Stephen Crane * + # * * Rebecca Harding Davis + * * Richard Harding Davis * # * * # Dorothy Day * ^ * # Daniel Defoe * * * Thomas De Quincey * * + * * * Peter De Vries * * + Charles Dickens * * * * Joan Didion * * * # John Dos Passos * # * * Frederick Douglass * # * * Theodore Dreiser * * * # W. E. B. Du Bois * * # * * Paul Laurence Dunbar * # ^ * * Finley Peter Dunne * * * * George Eliot * * ^ * * Gloria Emerson * # * * Emily Faithfull * * # Sui Sin Far * # * Table 1. (cont.) Raised w/ psychologically ill, alcoholic parent*/ Military from broken family#/ experience*/ Experience death of spouse, war reporting#/ as minority* Lost Abandonment*/ children, siblings war trauma+/ Suicide*/ and/or parent harsh, abusive while young+/ lost child or Mental Job trauma Alcohol suicide gay-bisexual or while rearing# / traumatic divorce, sibling in health as journalists/ or drug attempt or dealing with young* sexual abuse+ marriage, affair^ military^ problem* writers* problem* Sanitorium* thoughts# rumors about# Edna Ferber # * * Fanny Fern # * + ^ * * Henry Fielding * * * + * * E. M. Forster * * # # Philip Freneau * * + * * * Robert Frost * * + * * * # Margaret Fuller # # * * Martha Gellhorn # + * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * # ^ * * * Katharine Glasier * + * * Gail Godwin * * # * * Graham Greene * # * * * # Pete Hamill * * * Hutchins Hapgood * * * Joel Chandler Harris * # * * Bret Harte * * * * Eliza Haywood ^ * William Hazlitt ^ * * Ernest Hemingway * * # + * * * * * O. Henry * * * * * * Michael Herr # + * * * [44.204.164.147] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:51 GMT) John Hersey # + * Pauline Hopkins * * Wm. Dean Howells + * * Langston Hughes * * # * # * # Leigh Hunt * * * Zora Neale Hurston * * # + * * * Douglas Jerrold * * + Samuel Johnson * * * * # George Kaufman * + * * Jack Kerouac * + * * # Tracy Kidder * + * # Rudyard Kipling # ^ * Charles Lamb * * * * * Ring Lardner * * * Charlotte Lennox * * * Meridel Le Sueur # * Sinclair Lewis * ^ * * * * A. J. Liebling # * * * Jack London * * # * * * James Russell Lowell * * * # Norman Mailer * * * * Delariviére Manley * * ^ * Harriet Martineau * * John Masefield * * * Victoria Earle Matthews # # ^ * Mary McCarthy * * # * ^ * * H. L. Mencken * + # * * Margaret Mitchell * * * * H. H. Munro * * * # + * # Edith Nesbit * * ^ * Table 1. (cont.) Raised w/ psychologically ill, alcoholic parent*/ Military from broken family#/ experience*/ Experience death of spouse, war reporting#/ as minority* Lost Abandonment*/ children, siblings war trauma+/ Suicide*/ and/or parent harsh, abusive while young+/ lost child or Mental Job trauma Alcohol suicide gay-bisexual or while rearing# / traumatic divorce, sibling in health as journalists/ or drug attempt or dealing with young* sexual abuse+ marriage, affair^ military^ problem* writers* problem* Sanitorium* thoughts# rumors about# Frank Norris # # * Caroline Norton * ^ * Tim O’Brien * * * + * # John O’Hara * * * * # Eugene O’Neill * * * * # Margaret Oliphant * ^ + George Orwell * # + * + * Thomas Paine * + * * * Dorothy Parker * * # ^ * * * # Edgar Allan Poe * * # + * * * # Katherine Anne Porter * * ^ * * * # J. B. Priestley * + * * V. S. Pritchett # * * Mike Royko * * * Damon Runyon * * * * * John Ruskin # * * * Carl Sandburg * * * * # George Samuel Schuyler * * Agnes Smedley * * Tobias Smollett * * + * W. T. Stead * * [44.204.164.147] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:51 GMT) Richard Steele * * * * * Lincoln Steffens * * John Steinbeck # * * * Wallace Stevens * * * # Jonathan Swift * * * * * Ida Tarbell * William M. Thackeray * * ^ * * * Dylan Thomas * * Dorothy Thompson * * # ^ # ^ * * # Hunter S. Thompson * * * * * * James Thurber * * * * * * Mark Twain * * + * * * * # Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. * # * * + * # Auberon Waugh # * * + * Evelyn Waugh * # * * * # H. G. Wells * * * * # Ida Wells-Barnett * * Rebecca West * * ^ # * * * # E. B. White * * Walt Whitman * * * + * * # Elie Wiesel * * # + + * * Oscar Wilde ^ * * # Edmund Wilson * * * * * # P. G. Wodehouse * + * Mary Wollstonecraft * # * ^ * # Virginia Woolf * + * + * * * Richard Wright * # * # * * * * Table 2. Traumatic Experiences as Journalists and Writers Family Jailing, held journalism Humiliating hostage or trauma or Blocked Publication Fired/ job experience, detained for bad affairs/ publication died or told quit under press coverage, writing activities Mental health bad marriages Traumatic of articles to kill pressure/ or anonymity or indicted collapse on with other coverage on or sued publication lost column revealed or blacklisted job journalists job Henry Adams * Joseph Addison * James Agee * * Sherwood Anderson * * Djuna Barnes * * J. M. Barrie * Brendan Behan * Robert Benchley * * * Ambrose Bierce * * Lillie Devereux Blake * * Nellie Bly * James Boswell * * Mary Eliz. Braddon * * Jimmy Breslin * Heywood Broun * * Erskine Caldwell * * * * Truman Capote * * Philip Caputo * * Raymond Chandler * Charles Chesnutt * [44.204.164.147] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:51 GMT) Lydia Maria Child * Samuel T. Coleridge * Stephen Crane * * * Reb. Harding Davis * Rich. Harding Davis * Dorothy...