--- Apparently I have a life span of sixty-six years.
Interesting. My life is apparently half gone because of my chosen profession.
Kaufman has also studied poets and mental illness. "What I found was pretty consistent with the death finding
actually, female poets were much more likely to suffer from mental illness (e.g., be hospitalized, commit suicide, attempt
suicide) than any other kind of writer and more likely than other eminent women," he said.
"I've dubbed this the 'Sylvia Plath Effect."'
Sylvia Plath was a poet and novelist who killed herself in 1963 at the age of 30.
So, if female poets are subject to the Sylvia Plath effect, why can't female novelists be subject to the Agatha Christie effect?
Or do you, as a writer, only get to live to a ripe old age of eighty-five if you write mysteries?
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