Ianthe Elizabeth Brautigan also known as Ianthe Brautigan-Swensen (born 25 March 1960) is an American writer, educator and daughter of author

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Biography

She was born in San Francisco, California to Richard Brautigan and Virginia Dionne Alder. Her parents separated when she was two and she spent most of her young life with her father. Her first book ''You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir'' was published in 2000. She writes about her father and the impact his suicide had on her own life. She was just nine years old when he first told her that he wanted to kill himself, but she was 24 years old before he finally did so. The book is written in a similar way to her father's work, with short chapters and an impressionistic style. She describes her early life in Montana, spending time with her father and his

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friends, such as the writers Thomas McGuane and Michael McClure. She travelled with him to Hawaii and

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. She married film director Paul Swensen on September 5, 1981, and has one daughter named Elizabeth. She currently lives with her husband in Sonoma County, California, where she teaches English and Creative Writing at Santa Rosa Junior College and Sonoma State University (SSU).

Works

''You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir'' (2000; )

References

External links

An interview with Ianthe Brautigan on creativity and the creative process -- about-creativity.com March 31, 2008
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