Thought Catalog lists 99 writers who were drunks or addicts or both. The more I try to write the more I begin to understand. It’s frustrating to not be able to put your images on the page to your satisfaction. At least I know I’m in good company.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald*
- Ernest Hemingway*
- Dorothy Parker
- Jean Rhys
- Jean Stafford
- Aeschylus*
- Charles Bukowski
- Norman Mailer
- Stephen King*
- Lord Byron
- Anne Sexton*
- Percy Shelley
- Graham Greene
- Samuel Coleridge*
- William Faulkner
- J.D. Salinger
- Edgar Allen Poe*
- Samuel Johnson
- Raymond Carver
- David Foster Wallace
- Mary Karr
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Malcolm Lowry*
- Dylan Thomas*
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Robert Benchley
- John Cheever
- Tennessee Williams
- William Butler Yeats
- Li Po*
- Shirley Jackson
- Edward Albee
- O. Henry
- James Joyce
- Frederick Exley
- Harry Crews
- Oscar Wilde
- Grace Metalious
- Julie Powell
- Alan Watts
- James Frey*
- Lester Bangs
- Patrick Hamilton
- Tom Lux
- Martin Amis*
- L. Ron Hubbard*
- Christopher Hitchens
- Hunter S. Thompson
- James Thurber
- Raymond Chandler
- Patricia Highsmith
- Kingsley Amis
- Philip Larkin
- Truman Capote
- Carson McCullers
- Philip K. Dick
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Christopher Marlowe*
- Jacqueline Susann
- Flann O’Brian
- Edna St. Vincent Millay*
- Maeve Brennan*
- William S. Burroughs*
- Robert Lowell
- Adela Rogers St. John
- William Golding
- Jack London
- Stephen Crane
- Evelyn Waugh
- Hart Crane*
- Sylvia Plath
- Delmore Schwartz
- Herman Melville
- Djuana Barnes
- Theodore Roethke
- Thomas De Quincy
- Pete Hamill
- David Carr
- Caroline Knapp
- Augusten Burroughs
- Allen Tate
- Richard Yates
- Sinclair Lewis*
- Sherwood Anderson
- Eugene O’Neill
- John O’Hara
- Ring Launder
- Benjamin Franklin
- Charles Cros
- Koren Zailackas
- Caroline Gordon
- Conrad Aiken
- John Berryman*
- Edmund Wilson
- Joaquin Miller
- Rabelais*
- Rimbaud
- Verlaine
- Baudelaire…*