F. Scott Fitzgerald: America's Drunkest Writer

The Daily Beast:

F. Scott Fitzgerald was kept in champagne in the '20s, already a crumbling alcoholic in the '30s, and dead by the end of '40. The great American novelist's boozy writings are compiled in a new collection reviewed by Jimmy So. Plus, other famous writings on drink.

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Comments

[Uncle Rico]

10:37 AM on 07/20/2011

What, no Hunter S. Thompson? He could drink hard, take a massive amount of drugs, and play with guns and explosives---a multiple threat.

[Ariel Bonzai]

01:15 AM on 07/20/2011

So Hemingway used to call him a rummy. He didn't hold it so well, so when he was liquored up he didn't write well I never got it.. His writing. Faulkner was the more interesting writer and drinker, had a coat w a bar inside. I am not kidding. A great book is The Thirty Muse. Glad I don't booze, what a wreck for writers

[Cynth Bage]

11:19 PM on 07/19/2011

Nah, John Steinbeck was worse: a drunk and a mooch. Word on the streets in Monterey, CA is that he used to order a beer, then pour the leftover beer from other drinkers' glasses into his own and drink free for the whole day. He owed hundreds of dollars in bar tabs before high-tailing it to NYC in order to avoid paying his debts.

Beat that, Fitzgerald!!

[Hypocrites are Watching]

04:05 PM on 07/19/2011

I dont know who is drunker me the writer or the moderator who hasnt posted my comment??

[Hypocrites are Watching]

03:33 PM on 07/19/2011

Oh yea im so drunk I aint even published. ....Hic....

[colonelsun68]

11:38 PM on 07/19/2011

Well, technically, you are now! Congratulations!

[Hypocrites are Watching]

01:14 PM on 07/20/2011

Where's my darned....hic....ad...hic...vance

[Bruce Forbes]

11:06 AM on 07/19/2011

Jack Kerouac not a candidate for this?

[Sir Guy Grand]

11:19 PM on 07/19/2011

My thought exactly.

[Ariel Bonzai]

01:20 AM on 07/20/2011

He died of drink, but I am not sure it was a burden on his talent. Plus he is a poly addicted sort, bennie, weed, whatever else, including Vicksburg enhalets.. But Jack was playing with new ideas and forms. His haku are brilliant. big Sur captures his melon hold. Fitzgerald was not so perceptive or as artful

[purplejesus]

10:48 AM on 07/19/2011

Sorry but Charles Bukowski would drink Fitz under the table and then take him outside for a good beating

[OnionHero]

11:46 AM on 07/19/2011

You read my mind....

[jokamachi]

11:47 AM on 07/19/2011

lol

[Timothy Schaiberger]

12:51 PM on 07/19/2011

Bukowski was a poet so I think there should be different categories :)

[bealebkk]

09:53 AM on 07/19/2011

Who cares? he had talent...

[DanielAdler]

02:48 PM on 07/18/2011

Just wait for me to get famous: http://danielryanadler.com/2010/10/16/the-hangover/