The Chicago Tribune sheds light on the death of Dylan Thomas courtesy of a waiter at the White Horse Tavern.
"No one, for example, seems to know exactly what happened to Dylan Thomas on that July night in 1953 when the poet stepped out of the White Horse Tavern at Hudson Ave. and 11th Street and dropped dead.
Some accounts say Thomas downed 18 or 19 whiskeys at the bar and declared, "I believe that's the record" just before he succumbed.
Others claim he died of undiagnosed diabetes.
"He didn't die here; he died in his room at the Chelsea Hotel," a young White Horse Tavern server says. She spoke with absolute certainty."
Most biographies that I have read indicate that Thomas died at St. Vincent's hospital after consuming all of that whiskey and falling into a diabetic coma.
If you are in NYC you can catch the one man show "Do Not Go Gentle."
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