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Norah Vincent
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| Born | September 20, 1968 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | July 6, 2022 (aged 53) Switzerland |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Alma mater | Williams College |
| Notable works | Self-Made Man |
| Spouse |
Kristen Erickson
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Norah Mary Vincent (September 20, 1968 – July 6, 2022) was an American writer. She was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a quarterly columnist on politics and culture for the national gay and lesbian news magazine The Advocate. She was a columnist for The Village Voice and Salon.com. Her writing appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, New York Post, The Washington Post and other periodicals.
Early life
Norah Mary Vincent was born in Detroit, and grew up both there and in London where her father was employed as a lawyer for the Ford Motor Company. She attended Williams College, where she graduated with a BA in philosophy in 1990, before undertaking graduate studies at Boston College. She also worked as an editor for Free Press.
Career
Voluntary Madness
Vincent's book Voluntary Madness (2008) relates her experiences as an inpatient in three institutions for mentally ill patients: "a ward in a public city hospital, a private Midwestern institution, and a pricey New Age clinic." She criticized doctors who she claimed were unapproachable, noting that too many relied on drugs as therapy, while others addressed only symptoms instead of their underlying causes.
Vincent's book also addresses the question of pseudopatients and those who remained ill because of their lack of willingness to cooperate in their therapy.
Later work
Vincent later wrote two novels: Thy Neighbor (2012), described by The New York Times as "a dark, comic thriller", and Adeline (2015), which imagines the life of Virginia Woolf from when she wrote To the Lighthouse until Woolf's death in 1941.
Personal life, views, and death
Vincent, a lesbian, was briefly married to Kristen Erickson, but soon divorced.
Vincent was described as a libertarian who was critical of postmodernism and multiculturalism.
Vincent died via at a clinic in Switzerland on July 6, 2022, aged 53.
