They intoxicate writers, don’t they?
They intoxicate writers, don’t they?

Summary/Abstract: A partial register of hard-drinking celebrities in the literary field will include James Agee, Sherwood Anderson, W.H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Benchley, John Berryman, Louise Bogan, James Boswell, Robert Burns, William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, John Cheever, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Gould Cozzens, Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, ee cummings, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Eugen Ionescu, Samuel Johnson, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Charles Lamb, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Robert Lowell, Malcolm Lowry, John Phillips Marquand, Carson McCullers, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, Alfred de Musset, John Henry O’Hara, Charles Olson, Eugene O’Neill, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, William Sydney Porter (O’Henry), Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nichita Stanescu, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Dylan Thomas, James Thurber, Mark Twain, Paul Verlaine, Evelyn Waugh, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Wolfe. pp. 3–4

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