Re: Famous people with ADD & other Brain Chemistry Imbalances

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Continuing with my list of famous ADDErs (or people with Brain Chemistry Imbalances)…

River asked if I had a list of ADD Artists.

Of COURSE I do. <vbg>

I’ll do that next. Here we go:

WRITERS, POETS, ARTISTS & ENTREPRENEURS:

Ansel Adams Photographer

Louis Althusser (1918-1990) Philosopher, Writer

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) Photographer

Samuel Becket (1906-1989) Writer

Clifford Beers (1876-1943) Humanitarian

John Berryman (1914-1972) Poet

L. Brent Bozell (d. 1997) Attorney, Writer

Richard Brautigan (d. 1984) Writer

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890)Explorer, Writer

Truman Capote (1924-1984) Writer

Thomas Carlyle Scottish historian, critic, writer

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Industialist

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Author of Alice in Wonderland

Neal Cassady (1926-1968) Writer

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) Author

Hart Crane(1899 1932) Poet

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Artist

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Inventor/Artist

Emily Dickinson Poet

Terence Donovan (1936-1996) Photographer

Michael Dorris (1945-1997) Writer

James Farmer (1920-1999) Civil Rights Activist

Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) Inventor of Television

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) Author

Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) Magazine Publisher

Andre Franquin (1924-1997) Cartoonist

Arshille Gorky (1904-1948) Artist

Phil Graham Owner, Washington Post

Graham Greene (1904-1991) Writer

Philip Guston (1913-1980) Artist

Valerie Hardin Gothic poet, Artist, Children’s Author

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) Newspaper Magnate

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) Writer

Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) Writer

Milton Hershey (1857-1945) “The Chocolate King”

Herman Hesse (1877-1962) Writer

Edward Hopper 1882-1967 Artist

Eugene Izzi (1954-1996) Writer

William James (1842-1910) Philosopher, Writer

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) Poet

Samuel Johnson Author

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Writer

Jane Kenyon (1940-1995) Poet

William Kurelek (1927-1977) Artist

Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) Explorer(Lewis & Clark Expedition)

Ross Lockridge, Jr. (1914-1948) Writer

Jack London (1876-1916) Writer

Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) Writer

J. Anthony Lukas (1933-1997) Writer

Peter McWilliams (1949-2000) Writer, Activist

Claude Monet (1840-1926) Artist

Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) Writer

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Poet, Soldier

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Writer, Poet

Walker Percy (1916-1990) Writer

Pierre Peladeau (1925-1997) Entrepreneur

Murray Pezim (1920-1998) Financier

Pablo Picasso (1882-1973) Artist

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) Writer

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Author/Poet

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Artist

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Founder, Standard Oil

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Artist

August Rodin (1840-1917) Artist/Sculptor

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) Writer

Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) Poet

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) Artist

Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983) Writer

May Sarton (1913-1995) Poet, Diarist, Novelist

Charles Schulz (1922-2000) Artist, Cartoonist

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) Poet

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) Poet

George Bernard Shaw Author

Socrates (469-399 B.C.) Philosopher

George Stephanopoulos Political Advisor, Educator

August Strindberg (1849-1912) Writer

Dylan Thomas Irish Author

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Author

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Russian Author

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Artist

Mark Twain Writer

Joseph Vasquez (1963-1996) Writer, Director

Vincent Van Gogh Artist

Russell Varian (1899-1959) Inventor

Jules Verne (1828-1905) Author

Kurt Vonnegut Writer

Mary Jane Ward (1905-1981) Writer

Norman Wexler (1926-1999) Screenwriter, Playwright

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) Writer

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Physician, Writer, Poet

Bill Wilson (1895-1971) Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous

F. W. Woolworth (1852-1919) Department Store Innovator

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) Architect

William Wrigley, Jr. Chewing Gum Maker

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Writer

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Irish Author

How’s that?

Cheers,

GN

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