Bullying May Have Been Factor In Virginia Quarterly Review Editor's Suicide

TheWrap has been looking into the suicide of Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey, and it would appear that Morrissey had to contend with an extremely hostile working environment — so hostile, in fact, that some surviving family members and colleagues are wondering whether this ill-treatment may have been a factor in his death.

At the center of the speculation is the literary magazine’s editor in chief Ted Genoways, whose treatment of Morrissey has been described as “egregious.”

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