![]() ![]() ![]() Even Hemingway did not begin to drink in earnest until his writing career had more or less ended. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald (“too much champagne is just right”), or most of John Cheever’s output. Dozens of the twentieth century’s finest works were written by authors who were variously sozzled, sloshed, bladdered, or baked, and many others chart characters just as pissed, wrecked, tanked, or shitfaced. An interesting feature of some of this oeuvre is that the alcoholic author has very often been able to create cogent and coherent novels which offer no indication of his habit. See, for instance, Truman Capote, F. The debt owed by literary fiction to alcoholism and to alcohol more generally is too great to measure. ![]()
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