A Drinking Companion: Alcohol and Writers' Lives

In an effort to cut back on his drinking, F. Scott's Fitzgerald briefly limited himself to only one glass of beer--thirty times aday. Dashiell Hammett drank himself into a writer's block that lastedthirty years, and John Cheever conquered a decade-long addiction tocreate his greatest novel. Malcolm Lowry would drink anything fromgin to formaldehyde, while housewife/poet Anne Sexton always traveledwith a...