From the recently published book
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights...
- Louisa 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.
Source:
Radar Magazine Ok, WTF Salinger?!