comfortable being Laurie. She wasn't happy with herself. Her mother died by suicide at 25, and so did she." Legacy Garfunkel's 1975 album Breakaway features Bird on the cover. Garfunkel's 1981 album Scissors Cut states in its credits that it was "dedicated to you, Bird", and carried a partial photograph of her on its back cover. Bird's relationship with Garfunkel was referred to in the liner notes of the latter's 1988 album Lefty and his collection of prose poems Still Water. Hellman dedicated his 2010 film Road to Nowhere to Laurie Bird. Tim Kinsella's novel Let Go and Go On and On (2014) is subtitled Based on the roles of Laurie Bird. In the foreword, he writes, "This book by no means intends to convey any truth beyond one possible solution to the puzzles of her life and work." Natural Snow Buildings named one of their many 2008 releases after Bird. Credits References Bibliography External links 1953 births 1979 suicides People from Glen Cove, New York 20th-century American actresses American film actresses Suicides in New York City Drug-related suicides in New York City Burials at Flushing Cemetery 20th-century American women photographers 20th-century American photographers Drug-related deaths in New York City Female suicides