Marbles by Ellen Forney

December 15, 2014 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Gotham, 2012. 256 pgs. Library copy. Subtitled “Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me”, Forney’s memoir chronicles her diagnosis with bipolar disorder, her attempts to find the right formula of medication, and her struggles to reconcile the source of her creativity (which Forney believes to be her manic phases) with her identity as an artist. She spends some time detailing the famous artists who were either diagnosed with or believed to have bipolar disorder – Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Comics, Nonfiction, North America, United States • Tags: Ellen Forney