Scott Fitgerald vs. Britney

The second Tina Brown recommended article (see previous post) that I enjoyed is from Intelligent Life Magazine, and is entitled When Novelists Sober Up. I have always known that novelists can be a wild and unpredictable bunch, but this article really put things into perspective. Did you know that of America's 7 Nobel Laureates 5 were "lushes"? It is a pretty sobering statistic (couldn't help myself), but I do question how they came up with 7. They did not list the 7 so I am not sure who they counted, but I found at least 10, and 11 if you count Czeslaw Milosz, who is listed as United States/Poland. Anyhow, I knew about Hemingway (who doesn't!) and few of the others, but did not realize the extent of the situation. They describe William Faulkner and Scott Fitzgerald as the Paris and Britney of their day, and Hemingway as Amy Winehouse. Take a look at the article, you may learn a few things about your favorite authors.

FYI: American Nobel laureates in Literature are Sinclair Lewis (1930), Eugene O'Neill (1936), Pearl S. Buck (1938), William Faulker (1949), Ernest Hemingway (1954), John Steinbeck (1962), Saul Bellow (1976), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), Czeslaw Milosz (1980), Joseph Brodsky (1987), and Toni Morrison (1993).