John Patrick

Biography: John Patrick Goggin (1905-1995) was an American Pulitzer Prize winner, playwright and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his 1953 play and subsequent screenplay of "Teahouse of the August Moon".  He followed up with screenplays for the hit films The President's Lady, Three Coins in a Fountain, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, the screen version of The Teahouse of the August Moon,  High Society, The Philadelphia Story, Les Girls and in 1960 The World of Suzie Wong.
He died at the age of 90 at an adult-care center in Delray Beach, Florida, where he had lived for two years. He was found with a plastic bag over his head, leaving behind a poem titled "A Suicide Note".  His poem read,
"I won't dispute my right to die;I'll only give the reasons why; You reach a certain point in timeWhen life has lost reason and rhyme."