Famous literary drunks
Famous literary drunks and addicts. I wonder if drinking helped them write so great books or that writing so great books made them drink?
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
Stephen King (1947 - present)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Richard Brautigan (1935 - 1984)
Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
John Cheever (1912 - 1982)
John Berryman (1914 - 1972)
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
James Agee (1909 - 1955)
Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)
Flann O'Brien (b. Brian O'Nolan, 1911 - 1966)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
Charles baudelaire (1821-1867)
Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974)
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