Program Randomly Chosen from the Collection:
Judy Collins on Faith and Her Son's Suicide | |
| Speaker(s): Judy Collins | |
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| Series: | UMCom Interviews |
| Length: | 20:55 |
| Record Date: | 2003 |
| Audio Quality: | Good / Few Difficulties |
| Venue: | UMCom Studios / Collins's home in NY State |
| Source: | United Methodist Communications |
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Description: Judy Collins (1939-) is interviewed by Susan Passi-Klaus. The singer / songwriter's son, Clark Taylor, a recovering alcoholic, was 33 when he killed himself on a January day in 1992, leaving behind a wife, 4-year-old daughter and his mother, Judy Collins. Collins poured her grief into her journals. Those journals evolved into "Sanity and Grace: A Journal of Suicide, Survival, and Strength," published in 2003 by Tarcher / Penguin. Interview recorded in 2003.