“‘The maddening thing about Bill Faulkner,’ recalled Random House founder Bennett Cerf in his memoir At Random, ‘was that he’d go off on one of those benders, which were sometimes deliberate, and when he came out of it, he’d come walking into the office clear-eyed, ready for action, as though he hadn’t had a drink in six months. But during those bouts he didn’t know what he was doing.'”
A look at William Faulkner’s “liquor legacy.”