What is the name of the famous writer who is said to have "died of fame"

Many others have sought the answer to no avail:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&safe=off&th=778778ae3b846cd&rnum=1

One poster mentions that all the other answers are easily found on the
web. Another points out that it is Fame with a capital F.

I think the best suggested solution is:

John Lennon, died from being famous, co-wrote "Fame" with David Bowie

... but it's a bit too convoluted.

Correct me if I am wrong, but that is a question from a Terry Deary
(the author of "Horrible Histories" books) quiz.
I own his "Horrible Huge Quiz Book", and it contains the following
question:
"What is the name of the famous writer who is said to have died
'exhausted by fame'?"
Answer: Charles Dickens.
Maybe this is the right one?

Scriptor

Alcoholism was the immediate cause of death of Jack Kerouac, author of
"On the Road," the chronicle of the "beat generation," but it is often
suggested that his downward spiral and ultimate death was caused by
the fame that was thrust upon him.  Here's just one source that states
that proposition:

http://www2.uol.com.br/speakup/collection/186_kerouac.shtml

markj-ga

I'm pretty sure it's Dickens....he was working on "Edwin Drood",
giving theatrical readings of his work, and writing articles for all
anmd sundry. He seems to have been a writer obsessed with the fact
that fame is transitory....so much so that he actually did "work until
he dropped".

willie-ga

yes this is the answer to a horrible histories question. I need a reference

i thought of john lennon aswell but do not think this is right

poet John Keats?

I agree with Scriptor and Willie about Dickens, who was a celebrity as
well as a novelist.

"1866 brought another series of public readings, this time in various
locations in England and Scotland, and still more public readings, in
England and Ireland, were undertaken in 1867. Dickens was now really
unwell but carried on, compulsively, against his doctor's advice. Late
in the year he embarked on an American reading tour, which continued
into 1868. Dickens's health was worsening, but he took over still
another physically and mentally exhausting task, editorial duties at
All the Year Round.
During 1869, his readings continued, in England, Scotland, and
Ireland, until at last he collapsed, showing symptoms of mild stroke.
Further provincial readings were cancelled, but he began upon The
Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Dickens's final public readings took place in London in 1870. He
suffered another stroke on June 8 at Gad's Hill, after a full day's
work on Edwin Drood, and died the next day."
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensbio1.html

""He performed (his writings) flat out and in character[....]He was
famous for his voices. He was a great mimic and had a fantastic sense
of theater." Indeed the obsessive Dickens threw so much passion into
his character portrayals his doctors advised him to stop for his
health's sake and Ackroyd maintains it hastened his death in 1870."
[Ackroyd, one of his biographers]
http://www.arabia.com/life/article/english/0,11827,28339,00.html

"He died in his study at Gad's Hill at the age of 58, still a young
man but exhausted by a life of extreme exertion, having written
novels, papers and articles at a feverish pace for nearly forty years.
The home is a museum today, a shrine to the most famous man of letters
in England."
http://www.meridianmagazine.com/bestbooks/001205dickens3.html

"To raise money for charity, Dickens would read to crowds and
sometimes act out scenes of his novels. People enjoyed Dickens' acting
because he was so passionate. His blood pressure would soar (once he
even fainted and had to be carried off the stage), people would
applaud, and critics praised him. The stress killed him. Dickens died
of a stroke at the age of 58.."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/737140/posts

type "died of fame" into google search slot and see what comes up