Ernest Hemingway

Author (1899-1961)

'Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks.'

References to absinthe appear in many of Pulitzer & Nobel Prize winning Hemingway's writings, including Death In The Afternoon and For Whom The Bell Tolls. He was a great fan and a bad drunk, especially with his love of guns and knives.

Hemingway drank absinthe long after it was made illegal in most parts of the world. In Spain, he would have a few before running with the bulls in Pamplona, while it is also rumoured that he managed to have a few bottles around him while living in the United States.

Hemingway committed suicide in 1961.