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    Trying To Understand 'What Made Maddy Run'

    Journalist Kate Fagan's new book digs into the life of a young woman whose suicide shocked the University of Pennsylvania, where she ran track. Madison Holleran's life seemed perfect, until it wasn't.
    by Ailsa Chang Aug 02, 2017 2 minutes

    Madison Holleran ran track at the University of Pennsylvania. She was popular, and beautiful — and raised in a big, supportive family in a New Jersey suburb. "By all accounts, Madison in high school was this young, happy, vibrant, wildly successful human being, who was destined — according to everyone around her — to do

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