Michelle lamarche marrese biography of william shakespeare

Upper East Side scholar Dr. Michelle Lamarche Marrese seemingly had it all. She was beautiful and brilliant, a Russian historian with several advanced degrees and the author of an acclaimed academic book on women’s property rights.

But when Marrese, 52, was found dead in bed in her multimillion-dollar Upper East Side condo on Oct.

30, her friends weren’t wholly surprised. They figured she was depressed and committed suicide over her unraveling marriage.

“Thirty years of lies. I cannot live this way,” she had written ominously on Facebook days earlier.

But I know what really killed Marrese, and it wasn’t her failing relationship.

It was her hidden battle with misophonia — or “selective sound sensitivity syndrome.”

I know this because she emailed me last February, desperately seeking advice after I wrote a story on the mysterious condition for the New York Times, and we corresponded extensively.

“Unfortunately, the battle