Among women: Flannery O'Connor and probably Jane Austen.

Given the number of our greatly renowned authors (John Milton, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christy Brown) who are known to have suffered from lifelong illness and/or disability, it is obvious that writing…
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Among women: Flannery O'Connor and probably Jane Austen. though literary historians have never definitely identified her illness.
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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.
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