“He could not explain how he came to be in such a condition.” He died several days later. *Poe was discovered on the streets of Baltimore, drunk, disheveled, starving, freezing, and wearing clothes that were not his own. *Coleridge: also an opium addict, which is how ‘ Kubla Khan‘ got written. *Anne Sexton also committed incest with her own daughter. He has said he doesn’t remember writing ‘The Shining’ because he was on so much coke at the time. *Stephen King was also a hu-uuuuge drug addict. Until, in our own despair, against our will,Ĭomes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
He wrote the following: “ Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget *Aeschylus has the honor of being the first recorded alcoholic writer in history, circa 525 B.C. He died by shooting himself, after first trying to kill himself by walking into the propeller of a plane. So it’s sort of the equivalent of him liking the trendy chocolate martini o’ the month, or something. But daiquiris were a new drink at the time, just introduced from exotic Cuba. …So, back to trivia! Hemingway’s favorite drink was a daiquiri, which is surprisingly wussy for a “man’s man” like Hem. There are many more alcoholic writers, duh, but I ran out of time to do research. *This is obviously only a (very) partial list.
At his funeral, his friend (and fellow alcoholic) Dorothy Parker showed up and said “The poor son of a bitch” over his grave the same words said over Gatsby’s grave in The Great Gatsby. *…This whole long list kinda makes you think, don’t it? …Anyway, Fitzgerald drank himself to death at around age forty. Here are ninety-nine writers who liked to throw a few drinks back, if you know what I mean often with disastrous results, if you know what I mean… Matte
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