What Neuroscience Has To Say About The 'Tortured Genius' A photograph of American writer and poet Sylvia Plath on her grave in Heptonstall, England. Plath committed suicide in 1963. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Kurt Cobain performing with Nirvana in 1994. Cobain committed suicide in April of that year. Pam Dawber and Robin Williams in a 1981 episode of "Mork & Mindy." Williams took his own life in August 2014. 09/02/2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/creativity-mental-illness-health_n_5695887.html [with comments]