1. Obituary Note: Norah Vincent - Shelf Awareness
Sep 1, 2022 · Norah Vincent, whose 2006 book, Self-Made Man, made her "a media darling" but "cost her psychologically," died July 6, the New York Times ...
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2. Norah Vincent, Who Chronicled Passing as a Man, Is Dead at 53
Aug 18, 2022 · Ms. Vincent died on July 6 at a clinic in Switzerland. She was 53 ... It was my suicide note.” Getting dangerously lost in her work was ...
Her best-selling 2006 book about that experience, “Self-Made Man,” made her a media darling. But it cost her psychologically.
3. On the Subject of my Suicide - Literary Hub
Apr 23, 2015 · Norah died July 6, 2022 by assisted suicide at a clinic in Switzerland after tolerating a lifetime of depression and anxiety that she could no ...
There is no time. That is what I tell everyone who asks, and sooner or later everyone asks (it was my psychiatrist’s first question); why I didn’t call them, or someone, anyone for help on that Mar…
4. Norah Vincent, 53, chronicled passing as a man in New York - Buffalo News
Aug 21, 2022 · Vincent died July 6 at a clinic in Switzerland. She was 53. Her death, which was not reported at the time, was confirmed Thursday by Justine ...
In the winter of 2003, Norah Vincent, a 35-year-old journalist, began to practice passing as a man.
5. Norah Vincent Kills Herself - Richard Geib
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I read of the death of the author Norah Vincent last week. It was unusual in that she actually died in early July of this year, but the news of her passing was released only a few weeks ago. I enjoyed Norah’s work earlier in this century. She was a lesbian tending towards the libertarian with unconventional and interesting views, and as such I read her work with interest and pleasure. I appreciated the slant of Norah’s mind. I remember reading her best known book about passing for a male, “Self-Made Man,” listening to the audiobook on my way driving north through Santa Barbara on the 101 Freeway to an overnight work conference in Palo Alto sometime around 2007 or 2008. Particularly interesting passages of that book have stayed with me over time, which is always the mark of a book which leaves a lasting impression. I remembered Norah overall claiming that it was “really hard to be a man” because of suffocating gender roles and harsh expectations which supposedly make it difficult or impossible to be comfortable in your own male skin – – I saw it otherwise and sort of chuckled to myself in disagreement. I also read her next non-fiction book “Voluntary Madness” about Norah committing herself to various lockdown psychiatric hospitals. Perhaps the subject should have been a warning that Norah’s story would not end well. Then she disappeared. I heard next to nothing about Norah for almost a decade and a half. I had no idea what had happened to her. Until I heard she had died. Then things got even more confusing and unclear. Norah died in Switzerland in a “clinic” in Basil. Switzerland is (in)famous for “suicide tourism,” whereby the terminally ill travel abroad in search of legal euthanasia. But Norah was not in the last stages of a terminal illness, it seems. Switzerland also has euthanasia for the long-term disabled who earnestly desire to die, but Norah was not “disabled.” After some research, I suspect Norah was a long-term depressive who simply wanted to die. And she found a clinic in Basil, Switzerland which gave her what she wanted: assistance in “shrugging off this mortal coil” for those who struggle long-term with depression. Norah killed herself: in her obituary they said it without saying it, or at least I am pretty sure. Norah wrote two other minor novels since 2008 which I never even heard had been published, and that is it. One of those of course, was about Virginia Wolfe, another depressive and suicide. Norah’s mental health struggles seem to have taken over and she began to close herself off from the world. The last seven years have been silent, as far as I can tell. Oh, Norah! You were so wrapped up in the drama of your dark unhappiness that you could not give your audience what they wanted. I mourn the books and columns you never wrote. I would have read them with attention and pleasure. I mourn the fact that your family and friends could not enjoy sunnier days with you. The darkness became the predominant, and finally it took you entire. It would appear you were immobilized for years by your mental health struggles before finally you succumbed to them and died – before you killed yourself. You could have done that here in North America with so much less fuss and expense. Why travel to Basil, Switzerland? But no matter. The deed is done. The world is less varied and interesting without you in it, Norah, and more conventionally drab. There was no other way than this? Rest in peace, Norah Vincent! May you find in death the peace which escaped you in life – a respite from the unremitting heavy and the dark. In my mind’s eye I bequeath to you a quiet veranda to sit and enjoy the gentle afternoon sun while you read, think, and write. Equanimity. You deserve no less. We all do.
6. Woman Who Pretended To Be A Man Dies By Assisted Suicide Years ...
Sep 1, 2022 · 53-year-old journalist Norah Vincent opted for assisted suicide on July 6, 2022, years after experiencing what it was like to live as a man.
53-year-old journalist Norah Vincent opted for assisted suicide on July 6, 2022, years after experiencing what it was like to live as a man.
7. Book News: Obituary Note: Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent, whose 2006 book, Self-Made Man, made her "a media darling" but "cost her psychologically," died July 6, the New York Times reported. She was ...
Obituary Note: Norah Vincent - book and publishing news stories
8. A Self-Made Man - ABC News
Jan 20, 2006 · 20, 2006 -- Norah Vincent has lived as a man. She didn't undergo a sex change or radical hormone treatments. She simply went undercover.
Jan. 20, 2006 -- Norah Vincent has lived as a man. She didn't undergo a sex change or radical hormone treatments. She simply went undercover. In an extraordinary feat of acting, disguise and guts, Vincent lived among men -- as a man -- for 18 months to see what life was like on the other side of the gender divide.
9. Norah Vincent: The Woman Behind 'Self-Made Man' - NPR
Jan 25, 2006 · Writer Norah Vincent went undercover as a gender spy. She dressed as a man, glued bits of stubble to her jaw, joined an all-male bowling ...
Writer Norah Vincent went undercover as a gender spy. She dressed as a man, glued bits of stubble to her jaw, joined an all-male bowling league, went to strip clubs, a monastery and even went on dates. Vincent talks about the book that resulted: Self-Made Man.
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What disease did Norah Vincent have? ›
In Voluntary Madness, Vincent details her decade-long history with treatment-resistant depression, saying: "...my brain was never quite the same after I zapped it with that first course of SSRIs."
Is Self-Made Man book real? ›The true story of Norah Vincent's audacious gender-bending experiment, Self-Made Man is a fascinating account of a year and a half spent discovering how the other half lives.
What happened to the author of Self-Made Man? ›The woman, journalist Norah Vincent, died by suicide in July 2022, several years after undergoing this experience and writing about it in her book The Self-Made Man.
Who was the girl who lived as a man? ›Her best-selling 2006 book about that experience, “Self-Made Man,” made her a media darling. But it cost her psychologically. In the winter of 2003, Norah Vincent, a 35-year-old journalist, began to practice passing as a man.
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