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Roberta Payne
Written from the crucible of one family’s life, My Mother’s Autobiography takes readers from the highs of the sweeping Colorado Rockies to the lows of a cold sanitarium. The outcomes are surprising.
ABOUT
The Author
Roberta Payne is a writer, translator, and artist. A National Merit Scholar, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford in Classics and received an MA in Italian from UCLA. Her second MA, from Harvard, was in Romance Languages. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Denver. She has taught Latin and Italian on the college level.
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"Speaking to My Madness" is a rare find – a memoir of madness and beauty that hums not just with the deep tremors of a difficult life lived bravely, but a ringing language forged fresh for its recollection. I can hardly overstate how much I admire this book.
David Dobbs
"Speaking to My Madness" describes the terror of Dr. Roberta Payne’s descent into madness. The name to the illness that plagued her: schizophrenia. …at the end of this richly textured account, Dr. Payne celebrates the “new-found delights” of her brain. She has made for herself a life well-lived.