15 Writers With Lives More Interesting Than Fiction :: Erin Lenderts

Throughout history, writers have led interesting lives, with a lifestyle that offers room for exploration and adventure. These creative types often have a history of drug or alcohol abuse, tumultuous relationships, and even mental instability. Lovers of literature may enjoy learning about the interesting lives of writers that created the books they love, and we’ll explore a few of them here.

1. Ernest Hemingway: One of the members of the “Lost Generation,” Hemingway was an ambulance driver during World War I, bull runner, a heavy drinker all of his life and an American expatriate in Paris. He married four different women, and was almost killed in two different plane crashes while on safari in Africa. He ended his life by shooting himself with his favorite shotgun, and it’s believed that he had a genetic disease that causes mental and physical deterioration over time.
2. Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath is said to have been obsessed with death and deterioration, and it’s not surprising, given that her father died when she was eight, sparking her first attempt at suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. When she was 30 years old, she finally succeeding in killing herself by gas oven.
3. Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde’s life is most often noted for his notorious homosexuality, which was extreme in the Puritanical Victorian era. He was taken to trial three times for homosexuality, and was accused of sodomy, but acquitted, only to be sentenced to two years of hard labor at a new trial. At that point, his marriage Read more by Erin Lenderts

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