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 <<a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind0903%26L%3DADHS%26E%3D8bit%26P%3D17302%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Diso-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>> 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 
>