I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
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Hemmingway, his battle with mental illness, addiction, physical injury ultimately ended in his suicide and is a tragic story all on its own.
He was a mans man who died as no man should.
Herman Melville. I know he’s loved by everyone but his life was pretty sad. He had a whole crush on this dude and it went no where, and his book barely sold any copies when it came out.
Rushdie.
Stephenie Meyer.
People treated her like she single-handedly destroyed civilization. I knew her cousin, and things were pretty horrible for her. She couldn’t leave the house. She tried wigs, but they didn’t always work. People always expected her to sign their books. Not to mention the fact that she was so viciously HATED. Like damn.
Joan Didion
In 2003, Didion’s daughter Quintana Roo Dunne developed pneumonia that progressed to septic shock and she was comatose in an intensive-care unit when Didion’s husband suddenly died of a heart attack on December 30. She wrote The Year of Magical Thinking, in response to all that.