A writer whose novel was his suicide note
‘For the first time in his life Rudd found himself wishing for death, hoping (praying?) that the walls came down before the liquor ran out, that they were stormed, bombed or shot in some truculent surprise attack, some irresistible force, divine intervention’ from The Assault on Tony’s
American author, John O’Brien’s first novel Leaving Las Vegas published in 1990 by Watermark Press was also a hugely successful movie of the same name starring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. On April 10, 2010, O’Brien committed suicide by gunshot two weeks after learning that his novel was to be made into a movie. He was only 33 years old at that time. His father later said the novel was his suicide note…
