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7 Famous Female Alcoholic Authors: Women, Wine and Words 7 Famous Female Alcoholic Authors: Women, Wine and Words Published: 24th July, 2018 Categorized: Alcohol Rehab, Alcoholism, Celebrities, Depression, Mental Health, Suicide, Women and Addiction Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. John Cheever A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Cheever drank heavily partly to repress his bisexuality. Although he died in 1982, he did have some success in giving up drink thanks to therapy. Tennessee Williams Another alcoholic, Williams is one of the best playwrights America has ever seen. Turnabout: New Help for the Woman Alcoholic Turnabout, by Jean Kirkpatrick, was published in 1977, but remains as relevant today as when it was published almost 40 years ago. Dr. Kirkpatrick details her life as an active alcoholic, including her stays in psychiatric hospitals and her multiple failed attempts at achieving and sustaining sobriety.
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1. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker Image courtesy of Amazon If you've ever looked around the room and wondered why there is alcohol everywhere, then this is the book for you. ABSTRACT. This article addresses the intersection of femininity, shame, and alcoholism, considering the particular shame of the woman who drinks via a reading of Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight (1939) and Leslie Jamison's The Recovering (2018). Suggesting that any study of women writers and their relationship to, and representation of, alcoholism raises questions about female embodiment.
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Tennessee Williams, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, Berryman… Six giants of American literature - and all addicted to alcohol. In an edited extract from her new book, The Trip to. The alcoholic female modernist, when she is acknowledged to exist at all, has generally been excluded from the discourse--her voice silenced, ignored, like Jig's is, appropriately, in Hemingway's ―drunk narrative.‖. Goodwin, in making the case for an American ―epidemic‖ of alcoholic writers, offers this in his 1988 study:
