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Riese’s Team Pick – Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts

Posted byriese

on January 30, 2010

Life Magazine Presents Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts. Ayn Rand on speed, Burroughs on heroin, Dorothy Parker & Jack Kerouac drinking the drink, Louisa May Alcott on Opium and more! Also - who said, "I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius." (and no it wasn't Internicaine KC Danger).

6 responses to “Riese’s Team Pick – Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts”

Megan
January 30, 2010 at 7:44 pm Permalink Reply

Ah, I enjoyed this! I didn’t know about some of the addictions.

Hunter S. Thompson: Everything.

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Emily (member)
January 30, 2010 at 9:33 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Truman Capote? Was that a trick question? Interesting team pick, anyway. So much good stuff was written on drugs/alcohol.

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DemiArianna (member)
January 31, 2010 at 4:59 am Permalink Reply Report user

Stephen King looks like such a CREEPER.
A mousey one at that.

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1. brown bear
  January 31, 2010 at 12:21 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Truth.
  
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Harry Binswanger
January 31, 2010 at 12:35 pm Permalink Reply

I knew Ayn Rand very well, visiting her weekly in her apartment in her last couple of years. Ayn Rand did not take “speed,” and the small daily dose of Dexedrine she took, under doctor’s prescription, had no visible effect. Addiction? I remember in 1981 when she was in the hospital for what turned out to be heart trouble, she was still given those daily Dexedrine pills, but she chose not to take them.

Ayn Rand had many unique and colorful attributes, but addiction was not one of them.

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Lindsey P (member)
February 1, 2010 at 3:59 am Permalink Reply Report user

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