Married to a Novelist: Spouses of fiction writers might corroborate the thesis that most novelists have a normal version of multiple personality.

I don’t know if any spouse of a novelist has paid attention to whether the novelist has multiple personality—defined as more than one personality plus memory gaps—and if they did find that the novelist has multiple personality, has written about it.

The only thing I have in a past post that inadvertently addresses this is quotations from the memoir of actress Claire Bloom about her former spouse, novelist Philip Roth, in which she describes occasional changes in his behavior, and his claim of having had amnesia (a memory gap). Of course, you might discount what people say about each other when they are divorced, but the things she says do not sound like typical vindictiveness.

Do you know of any other relevant memoirs of spouses of novelists? Or, if you, yourself, are a spouse of a novelist, any comments?