Bill's Fans (8)

Bill Clegg

Author profile

gender

male

website

http://portraitofanaddict.com/

genre

Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

About this author

edit data

Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life.

What is it that leads an exceptional young mind to want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life — and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. He also explores th...more

combine editions
Books by Bill Clegg

Average rating: 3.59 · 1,002 ratings · 248 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir 3.53 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves by Sarah Moon, James Lecesne, Armistead Maupin 4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson, Bill Clegg 3.60 avg rating — 1,184 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	My rating: