Source: Radar magazine - April 2008

The Writing Life
A sampling of little known tidbits about literary giants, from Secret Lives of Great Authors (Quirk, April).

=> Luisa May Alcott was addicted to opium.
=> Lord Byron collected the pubic hair of his female conquests.
=> Henry David Thoreau invented raisin bread.
=> Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde made out.
=> Gertrude Stein called orgasms "cows".
=> Franz Kafka went to nudist spas.
=> Jack London hated Asians.
=> F. Scott Fitzgerald had a foot fetish.
=> J.D. Salinger drank his own urine.