William Seabrook AKA William Buehler Seabrook Born: 22-Feb-1886 Birthplace: Westminster, MD Died: 20-Sep-1945 Location of death: Rhinebeck, NY Cause of death: Suicide
Gender: Male Religion: Cult Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Thoroughly sodden traveling author Military service: French Army (WWI) "So long as any man drinks when he wants to and stops when he wants to, he isn't a drunkard, no matter how much he drinks or how often he falls under the table. The British upper classes were constantly and consistently mildly stewed, from father to son, in Parliament and Pall Mall for nearly the whole of the eighteenth century." -- William Seabrook, Asylum
"What do drunkards do? They... drink... themselves... to... death." -- William Seabrook, No Hiding Place
"The swine-dog W. B. Seabrook has killed himself at last, after months of agonized slavery to his final wife." -- Aleister Crowley, diary entry Father: (Lutheran minister) Wife: Katherine Pauline Edmondson (m. 1912, div. 1934, married his next wife's ex-husband) Wife: Marjorie Worthington (novelist, m. 1935, div. 1939) Wife: Constance Kuhr (m. May-1942) Son: William
High School: Mercersburg Academy, PA University: Roanoke College University: MA, Newberry College University: Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland (1908)
Cannibalism Croix de Guerre Risk Factors: Alcoholism
Author of books:
Adventures in Arabia: Among the Bedouins, Druses, Whirling Dervishes and Yezidee Devil Worshipers (1927, travelogue) The Magic Island (1929, travelogue) Jungle Ways (1931, travelogue) The White Monk of Timbuctoo (1934, biography) Asylum (1935, memoir) These Foreigners (1938, social studies) Witchcraft: Its Power in the World Today (1940, social studies) Doctor Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory (1941, biography) No Hiding Place: An Autobiography (1942, memoir)
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