Jim McIntosh's email has reminded me that Don Goodwin was the author, from Kansa City I believe. I still think 'The muse and the martini' was a better title.
Colin Brewer
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:30:26 -0500
Jim McIntosh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alcohol and the Writer by Donald W. Goodwin
>-Penguin, 1990 contains a chapter on eight authors, Poe,
>Fitzgerald, Hemingway, etc. with a theme of why so many
>American writers were alcoholics or hard drinkers.
> Thomas B. Gilmore wrote Equivocal Spirits - Alcoholism
>and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature - University
>of North Carolina Press 1987 offers an analysis of
>drinking as it appears in the literature of many
>different authors. cheers, Jim
> -- James R. McIntosh, Professor Department of Sociology
>& Anthropology Lehigh University 681 Taylor Street
>Bethlehem, Pa. 18015 Tel. 610 758 3809 Fax: 610 758 6552
>