for several years due to the dissolution of her marriage and her limited career options. In late 1952, she began starving herself, which, combined with her paralysis, led to chronic kidney infections and pneumonia. She died of ensuing health complications that year at age 31.

Life and career

19211939: Early life

Peters was born Suzanne Carnahan on July 3, 1921, in Spokane, Washington, the elder of two children born to Robert and

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