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6 — PLUS! — Saturday, April 1, 1989
FITNOTES
  by KIM UPTON_______________________________
    WRITERS AND BOOZE — The image of the writer with a glass of alcohol in his fist is a common, almost romantic vision of the American novelist. But do writers really sip an abundance of booze? Psychiatrist Donald W. Goodwin, M.D., says there is evidence suggesting this is true. And he has written a book about it called Alcohol and the Writer.
    "Of the seven American Nobel laureates in literature, four of them — Sinclair lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner — were clearly alcoholic and a fifth, John Steinbeck, was probably alcoholic. Five of seven, 71 percent, is a pretty high rate of alcoholism, surely the highest rate in any precisely defined group known to exist," Goodwin told American Medical News. “When you add all the other 20th-century writers who were alcoholic you have (an) epidemic.”
    Why does he think this occurs? While history tells us the psychological profiles of each of the writers is unique, one thing they had in common was their profession. Goodwin suggests that this may be the link, and that writing and booze make understandable bedfellows.
    "Writing is a form of exhibitionism;; alcohol lowers inhibitions and prompts exhibitionism in many people. Writing requires an interest in people; alcohol in-; creases sociability and makes people; more interesting. Writing involves fantasy; alcohol promotes fantasy. Writing requires self-confidence; alcohol bolsters confidence. Writing is lonely work; alco-
  hol assuages loneliness. Writing demands intense concentration; alcohol relaxes."
    Goodwin, who has spent 20 years studying alcoholism, does not suggest that drinking alcohol is a constructive endeavor, only one that is in some ways not surprising for a writer.
    He concludes: “Creative writing requires a rich fantasy life; loners have rich fantasy lives — the ultimate loner is the schizophrenic who lives in a prison of fantasy. Alcohol promotes fantasy."
    (Kim Upton is editor of the Health & Fitness News Service.)
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    Name: Kerry McDonald Sport: Volleyball, this week.
    Team: Sight and Sound League: Prince George mixed volleyball league. What do you do with the rest of the year? Sight and Sound’s softball team in the Pine centre league, wallyball, waterskiing, downhill skiing, camping, fishing, hunting, past vice-president of1 Big Brothers - Big Sisters.
    How do you support this lifestyle? Radio advertising sales for CKPG.
    Is there room for anything else in your life? Married, two cats — Simon and Simon, and reading books by people like Stephen King and James Clavel. photo by Dave Milne