Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe
was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money
to keep a woman's name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could
still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of
incest. Do you still want to a writer - and if so, why? ~~~ Bennett Cerf