Several times she passed out on the floor and stayed there all night. It worked for a while, but she went back to drinking until she suffered from delirium tremens and endured falls and injuries. She told her sister that she hated to drink, that it made her unspeakably miserable but that she could not stop. If she went out to dinner, friends had to help her home. Her drinking progressed until "she hardly drew a sober breath," as a friend recalled. She started drinking in college, and in her twenties was sipping sherry in the morning while she wrote. David Roberts' just-published biography of novelist and journalist Jean Stafford reveals the harrowing details of her alcoholism. and the conquest of alcoholism," said her obituary. "Her personal triumphs were accompanied by tragedy. John, a very different kind of writer, a "sob sister" and author of romances, died. After being hospitalized for the fourth time, he turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and quit drinking." The same month, Adela Rogers St. "But that was also the year he began to drink heavily. "He began achieving recognition as a writer in 1967 when his story "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" was selected for the anthology "Best American Short Stories," his obituary said. Raymond Carver, acclaimed author of stories about America's working poor, died last August at the age of 50. Do writers drink more than other people? It would seem so.
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