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From: Charleston Gazette
Date: 20071119
Author:Gzedit
THE DEATH of hard-boozing author Norman Mailer - who stabbed one of his wives while tipsy - spotlights a troublesome fact: Many great writers are alcoholics. A 1989 Washington Post analysis said famous drunken authors include Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, John O'Hara, Adela Rogers St. John, Truman Capote, Jack London, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Hart Crane, Herman Melville, Ring Lardner, Sherwood Anderson, Dylan Thomas, John Cheever and others. A writer's lonely life inside the mind, ...
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