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...SEASON IN HELL by PERCY KNAUTH 111 pages. Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus at Bay | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...with a doctor or a friend, or simply repeating to oneself that "tomorrow is another day." Many people push a burden of inexplicable sadrtess through half a lifetime like Sisyphus with his famous stone, and try to believe that they are happy just the same. But when Author Percy Knauth fell into a depression, none of these things worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus at Bay | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...Knauth is a veteran correspondent, editor and writer (the New York Times, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED). Returning from Europe a few years ago, he seemed, at 57, to be sitting on top of the world; he had a wife, a young family and a brightlooking future as a freelancer on a series of long-term projects. Yet he kept awakening (if he managed to sleep at all) with a sense of impending doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus at Bay | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

This book is a brief account of what happened before and after that moment. It suffers slightly from overwriting. But Knauth can be forgiven his occasional excesses because he confronts accurately and candidly a highly personal sickness that is too little understood, and writes informatively about its treatment. Word for word, A Season in Hell is one of the best-and most encouraging-books on mental illness yet written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus at Bay | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

Other Harvard entrants are Larry Zeitlin, Christy Knauth, Lee Cunningham, Al Masters, Steve Sharp, Bob Sweet, Chris Rutgers, Nate Berkowitz, Bill Engstrom, and Max Emmert of the B School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith to Run 3rd Annual Marathon | 4/18/1951 | See Source »

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