Payne, Roberta

Roberta Payne has studied at some of the nation's top universities, earning a BA in classics from Stanford, an MA in Italian from UCLA, an MA in romance languages from Harvard, and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Denver -- but it is from her personal life that she's gained the knowledge most pertinent to her recent memoir, Speaking to My Madness: How I Searched for Myself in Schizophrenia. While experiencing alcoholism, schizophrenia, and cancer, Payne sustained a peripatetic career teaching college English, Latin, and Italian, and this brings unique perspective to her b...