Thomas De Quincey

English author

Died when: 74 years 115 days (891 months)
Star Sign: Leo

Thomas Penson De Quincey (/d? 'kw?nsi/; 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) 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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