Authors look to everything from sherry to popsicles for inspiration
(NEWSER) - Some of history's greatest writers have relied on "food for thought." For Truman Capote, a daily regimen of coffee, tea, sherry, and martinis was his path to creative greatness. Others kept it simpler: Marcel Proust relied on espresso, while Jesus Land author Julia Scheeres swears by the ultimate motivator: starvation. In the New York Times , illustrator Wendy MacNaughton reveals the favored snacks of these and other writers: More»