/lit/ - Literature

>>1592219

ya lol

ITT: "Interesting" facts about writers

Allen Poe married his cousin, was a drunk with night terrors.

Kit Marlowe was a spy, an atheist, and a homosexual.

Dickens cheated on his wife and padded his stories for money.

Norman Mailer was a drunk, drug-addled bastard who stabbed his wife at a party.

H.P Lovecraft was a racist of every race, married a woman yet they never had sex (He was still a virgin even after death), divorced her to live with his aunts, become extremely poor as he gets older, then died a horrible and painful death from intestinal cancer and malnutrition.

Robert E Howard was a narcissistic closet-case who lived with his mother and killed himself after she died.