This book, discarded of course at the English Department, came home with me and sat leadenly on the bedside table for years. Once I finally got past the introduction, it was a fairly readable biography in bottles of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, and O'Neill. Good description of the clinical mysteries of alcoholsm and discussion of how in twentieth-century America fetishized hard drinking and breakdowns in writers. I'd never really thought about it but that was true.

effects of alcoholism on careers of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and O'Neil (who quit)