The Great American Authors Test
November, 1972
Everybody Knows writers are crazy. They jump off bridges and boats, finally, or drown in gutters, and before that they shoot themselves in the legs with machine guns, stab their wives on purpose and are pretty much the heaviest juicers at the cosmic party.Since the debaucheries and the general misfortune of spirit that it takes to be a truly great American writer aren't the sorts of things you can measure in journalism classes, we've devised a snappy quiz that should protect you from the agony o...