The Ultimate Reader’s Guide to Whiskey: INFOGRAPHIC

By Dianna Dilworth 

It’s National Bourbon Day and to celebrate, Signature Reads, a content site published by Penguin Random House, has created an infographic about whiskey and literature.

Check it out:

Writers and booze have mixed in profusion since man achieved those twin pinnacles of culture: written language and distillation. Sometimes they go together well, like bourbon and bitters in a finely wrought Old Fashioned. Other times? Well, it doesn’t take more than a skim through a few writers’ biographies to see how destructive the bottle can be.

We’ve got the full graphic for you after the jump.

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