Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785-1859)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and basically invented the whole addiction memoir genre while doing it. De Quincey's 1821 drug diary became the template everyone else followed.
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Thomas Penson De Quincey was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.
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