Plagiarism

Thomas Chatterton (1770), English poet and forger, arsenic poisoning

Heinrich von Kleist (1811), German author, poet and journalist, gunshot

Manuel Acuña (1873), Mexican poet, ingestion of potassium cyanide

Amy Levy (1889), British writer, inhaling charcoal gas

Per Sivle (1904), Norwegian poet and novelist, gunshot

Sergei Yesenin (1925), Russian and Soviet poet, hanging

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1927), Japanese writer, overdose of barbital

Kostas Karyotakis (1928), Greek poet, gunshot

Charlotte Mew (1928), English poet, Lysol poisoning

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1930), Russian and Soviet poet, gunshot

Vachel Lindsay (1931), American poet, poison

Hart Crane (1932), American poet, jumped off ship

Austra Skujiņa (1932) Latvian poet, jump from a bridge

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935), American writer, chloroform overdose

Robert E. Howard (1936), American author, gunshot to the head

Horacio Quiroga (1937), Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, drank a glass of cyanide

Alfonsina Storni (1938), Argentine poet, drowning

Walter Benjamin (1940), German-Jewish literary critic and culture theorist, morphine overdose

Walter Hasenclever (1940), German poet and playwright, overdose of Veronal

Marina Tsvetaeva (1941), Russian poet, hanging

Virginia Woolf (1941), English author, essayist, and publisher, drowning

Stefan Zweig (1942), Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, barbiturate overdose

Osamu Dazai (1948), Japanese author, drowning in the Tamagawa Aqueduct

Cesare Pavese (1950), Italian author, overdose of barbiturates

Sadegh Hedayat (1951), Iranian writer, carbon monoxide poisoning

Ernest Hemingway (1961), American writer and journalist, gunshot to head

Sylvia Plath (1963), American poet, novelist, children’s author, gas inhalation

Charles R. Jackson (1968), American writer, barbiturate overdose

José María Arguedas (1969), Peruvian novelist and poet, gunshot

John Kennedy Toole (1969), American novelist, carbon monoxide poisoning

Paul Celan (1970), Romanian poet, drowning in the Seine

Yukio Mishima (1970), Japanese author, poet, playwright, film director and activist, ritual seppuku disembowelment

John Berryman (1972), American poet, jumped off the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Yasunari Kawabata (1972), Japanese writer, gas inhalation

Alejandra Pizarnik (1972), Argentine poet, secobarbital overdose

William Inge (1973), American writer, carbon monoxide poisoning

B. S. Johnson (1973), English novelist, poet, literary critic, sports journalist, television producer and filmmaker, cut his wrists

Anne Sexton (1974), American poet, carbon monoxide poisoning

Jens Bjørneboe (1976), Norwegian novelist, hanging

Frank Stanford (1978), American poet, gunshot

Jean-Louis Bory (1979), French writer, gunshot to the chest

Breece D’J Pancake (1979), American short story writer, gunshot

Wally Wood (1981), American comic book writer and artist, gunshot

Arthur Koestler (1983), Hungarian-British author, novelist, barbiturates

Richard Brautigan (1984), American writer, gunshot

Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.) (1987), American writer, gunshot

Hai Zi (1989), Chinese poet, lying down on railroad tracks

Jerzy Kosinski (1991), Polish-born American writer, suffocation with plastic bag

Charles Crumb (1992), American comics writer and artist, overdosed on pills

Gu Cheng (1993), Chinese poet, hanging

John O’Brien (1994), American novelist, gunshot to the head

Walter M. Miller Jr. (1996), American writer, gunshot

Hunter S. Thompson (2005), gonzo journalist, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, gunshot

Thomas M. Disch (2008), American writer, gunshot

David Foster Wallace (2008), American author, hanging

Ned Vizzini (2013), American author of young adult fiction, leapt from a building

Mark Fisher (2017), English writer and political theorist, hanging

Anthony Bourdain (2018), American chef, author, and television personality, hanging

Victor Heringer (2018), Brazilian novelist and poet, winner of the 2013 Prêmio Jabuti, self-defenestration

David Berman (2019), American musician and poet, hanging