Talk:S. S. Van Dine
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That's a weird-sounding drug addiction. If he *was* addicted, why would he go to bed for two years? To just lie there and shoot himself up? Or to just lie there and *not* do dope? Both of them seem rather unlikely. Is there more info about this in the bio? If so, it might go into the article also.... Hayford Peirce 20:18, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
Check the biography; it goes into more detail. If I remember the details right, the “going to bed for two years” was just a fiction to cover up the fact that he had to recover from drug addiction. He moved in fast circles when he was editor of “The Smart Set”, and they were the ones to introduce him to drugs. This was too scandalous for the 1920s (no one would have touched his books had they known this); hence the story of being confined to bed for two years. I don’t think he was actually confined to bed. But it was while he was recovering that he started reading mysteries, and that part is true. [the one who posted about the drug addiction]
[edit] Similar text
A lot of the text is similar to that on IMDB, at [[1]]. I am unable to determine which is the earlier text, since that page is not present in the Internet Archive. Quatloo 00:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pothead, of sorts
Somewhere I've read that Wright was a heavy marijuana user for a long time. Any info on that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.27.73.102 (talk) 23:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
