Arts Extra: Writers On Depression. Published Mar 07, 2001 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM EST. ... The medication is great when you have the right medication at the right level.

Sanora Babb spent her life dealing with all the multifarious daily perils that prevent writers from writing. She was raised in poverty by a mother who was only 16 when she gave birth to her and an ...

Many writers are recalled for the great things they achieved in life apart from their living of it; but Babb’s greatest genius may have been her ability to produce lasting work without leaving ...

Jobless rate spikes to 14.7 percent, highest since Great Depression. ... better known as Will Rogers, an entertainer, humorist, political commentator and writer, died in a plane crash in Alaska.

The Great Depression was a devastating and prolonged economic depression that followed the crash of the U.S. stock market in 1929. It ended as the Second World War began.

In the 1930s during the Great Depression, cash was tight for working-class and middle-class Americans – so money toward nonessentials, including the arts, dried up as people saved what they could.