Charles Jackson

Charles Reginald Jackson (April 6, 1903September 21, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the 1944 novel The Lost Weekend.
Charles R. Jackson was born in Summit, New Jersey on April 6, 1903, the son of Frederick George and Sarah Williams Jackson. His family moved to Newark, New York in 1907, and nine years later his older sister, Thelma, and younger brother, Richard, were killed while riding in a car that was struck by an express train.[http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms1070_fullguide.html... meer