Heroes Who Have Struggled With Depression
Public Figures
Barbara Bush - Former First Lady
Garnet Coleman - Texas legislator
Kitty Dukakis - Former First Lady of Massachusetts
Thomas Eagleton - Lawyer, former U.S. Senator
Lynn Rivers - U.S. Congresswoman
Sol Wachtler - Judge
Phil Graham - Owner of the Washington Post
Abble Hoffman - Writer and political activist
Robert McFarlane - Former National Security Adviser
Athletes
Ilie Natase - Tennis player and politician
Jimmie Piersall - Baseball player and announcer
Muffin Spencer Devlin - Pro golfer
Bert Yancey - Pro golfer
Scientists
Buzz Aldrin - Astronaut, second man to walk on Moon
Kad Paul Link - Chemist
Steven Hawking - Physicist, developed the Big Bang creation theory
Salvador Luria - Scientist of bacterial genetics, Nobel Laureate
Entertainers
Francis Ford Coppola - Director of The Godfather
Patty Duke - Actor on The Patty Duke Show
Linda Hamilton - Actor from The Terminator movies
Alvin Alley - Dancer and choreographer
Dick Clark - Host of New Year's Rockin' Eve
Drew Barrymore - Movie actor and director
Writers
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own
Jules Feiffer - cartoonist for the New Yorker and the Village Voice
Composers/Musicians
Irving Berlin - "White Christmas" and "God Bless America"
Cole Porter - Anything Goes
Hector Berlioz - Symphonic Fantastique
Kurt Cobain - Former musician for the band Nirvana
Sting - Formerly of The Police and now a solo performer
Tom Waits - Experimental, progressive musician
Brian Wilson - Former member of the Beach Boys
Axl Rose - Singer for rock band Guns n' Roses
Ray Charles - Legendary R&B performer
Eric Clapton - Blues-rock musician
Sheryl Crow - Rock musician
Sarah McLachlan - Pop singer and creator of Lilith Fair
Robert Schumann - German classical composer
Poets
T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"
Anne Sexton - Live or Die
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Artists
Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night, Sunflowers
Michelangelo - Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculptor of David
Edvard Munch - The Scream
Mark Rothko - Modern, color-block painting pioneer
Research by Amanda Druckman and Cheryl Maday
Art Buchwald has been called the "Wit of Washington" for his celebrated column in the Washington Post and nearly 50 years of political humor writing.
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