[quote=walterwhite]One interesting fact about Sinclair Lewis is that he was really, really into fasting. Wait, maybe it was upton sinclair. anyway, one of those guys fasted a lot, and a long time, and even wrote a very popular at the time book about it. And lived to his 80s[/quote]
Not Sinclair Lewis. He was 65 when he died in Rome (how awesome is that?!). He was in an advanced state of alcohol-related liver disease about which he was, apparently, in complete denial. And why the hell not?!
However, Upton Sinclair, who fastidiously abstained from drinking alcohol, wrote a book about his fellow writers who were liberal imbibers. Object of said book was, ostensibly, to warn young people about the evils of liquor. He had no shortage of literary figures from which to choose. A quote about Sinclair Lewis is particularly touching: “…never had anybody gotten so blind drunk as Sinclair Lewis”.
Now there’s an epitaph for one’s tombstone….and so much more personal than all that crap about winning Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes.
