Lockridge L
New York University, New York 10012, USA.
Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1995 Winter;25(4):429-36.
"Ross Lockridge, Jr. took his own life on March 6th, 1948, two months following publication of his best-selling novel, Raintree County. The thirty-three year old author from Indiana left his wife and four children. His second son, Larry Lockridge, five years old at that time, has undertaken a search for answers to what has been called the greatest single mystery in American letters. Here, he describes the psychology of survivorship as well as the convergence of factors that led to suicide-personality disorder (narcissistic), biological (possibly genetic) predisposition to depression, and cultural factors related to success in the United States. A merging of such interpretive methods may be more productive than a privileging of one over the other."
小罗斯·洛克里奇于1948年3月6日自杀，就在他的畅销小说《雨树县》出版两个月后。这位来自印第安纳州的33岁作家抛下了他的妻子和四个孩子。他的二儿子拉里·洛克里奇当时五岁，他一直在探寻被称为美国文学史上最大谜团的答案。在此，他描述了幸存者的心理，以及导致自杀的多种因素的交织——人格障碍（自恋型）、抑郁症的生物学（可能是遗传）易感性，以及与美国成功相关的文化因素。将这些解释方法结合起来可能比只偏重其中一种更有成效。
