Famous folks from Belmont

James Taylor James Taylor's song ''Knockin' Round the Zoo'' is about his stay at McLean Hospital as a teenager. The psychiatric hospital is based in Belmont and has had many famous visitors . Some former patients include Zelda Fitzgerald, David Foster Wallace, John Nash, Rick James, Steven Tyler, and Ray Charles. Mclean also inspired Sylvia Plath's novel 'The Bell Jar'' and Susanna Kaysen's 'Girl, Interrupted.''
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James Taylor

James Taylor's song '"Knockin' Round the Zoo'' is about his stay at McLean Hospital as a teenager.

The psychiatric hospital is based in Belmont and has had many famous visitors .

Some former patients include Zelda Fitzgerald, David Foster Wallace, John Nash, Rick James, Steven Tyler, and Ray Charles.

Mclean also inspired Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar'' and Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted.''