Scott Marshall
Writer and Artist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Born to a poor Alabama sharecropper in 1951, Scott Marshall pulled himself out of poverty by creating a successful door to door waxing business. After losing his fortune in a series of unwise instant water investments, he married the heiress to the world's second-largest piano wire manufacturer. He died as he lived, of autoerotic strangulaton with custom heavy-gauge piano wire in 2007.