later wrote about his experience in the autobiographical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Sylvia Plath, American writer and poet Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression; he was 57. Bud Powell, American jazz musician Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer Peggy S. Salters, from South Carolina, in 2005 became the first survivor of electroshock treatment in the United States to win a jury verdict and a large money judgment ($635,177) in compensation for extensive permanent amnesia and cognitive disability caused by the procedure Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol superstar William Styron, American author Gene Tierney, American actress Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter David Foster Wallace, American writer Mike Wallace, American journalist Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones Louis Althusser, French marxist philosopher References Electroconvulsive therapy Physical psychiatric treatments Electroconvulsive therapy