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William Griffith Wilson, cited by Time magazine as one of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century, is better known as Bill W., cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this book, Matthew J. Raphael, himself a member of A.A. (and writing here under a pseudonym, in accordance with A.A.s tradition of anonymity), presents a revealing new look at both the legendary Bill W. and the private Mr. Wilson, who tried to live apart from his own celebrity.
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Bill W. and Mr. Wilson : The Legend and Life of A.A.'s Cofounder
author
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Raphael, Matthew J.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558492453
print isbn13
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9781558492455
ebook isbn13
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9780585336817
language
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English
subject
W., Bill, Alcoholics--Biography, Alcoholics Anonymous.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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HV5032.W19R36 2000eb
ddc
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362.292/86/092
subject
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W., Bill, Alcoholics--Biography, Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Bill W. and Mr. Wilson
The Legend and Life of A.A.'S Cofounder
Matthew J. Raphael
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Copyright 2000 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America LC 99-086304 ISBN 1-55849-245-3 Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Adobe Dante by Graphic Composition, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Raphael, Matthew J. Bill W. and Mr. Wilson: the legend and life of A.A.'s cofounder / Matthew J. Raphael. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55849-245-3 (alk. paper) 1. W., Bill. 2. AlcoholicsBiography. 3. Alcoholics Anonymous. I. Title. HV5032.W19 R36 2000 362.292'86'092dc21 [B] 99-086304
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available
Excerpts from various materials published by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (A.A.W.S.) are reprinted with permission of A.A.W.S. Permission to reprint the material does not mean that A.A. has reviewed or approved the contents hereof or that A.A. necessarily agrees with the views expressed herein. A.A. is a program of recovery from alcoholism onlyuse of A.A. materials in connection with non-A.A. programs and activities, or their use in any other non-A.A. context, does not imply otherwise.
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For my sons
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As a matter of personal preference, I'd rather there never would be any biography, because A.A. has been such a benign conspiracy of God and so many other people, that I should certainly be over-rated. Bill W. to Max W., 25 September 1961
And again, and again, in secret communion with my own spirit, would I demand the questions, "Who is he?whence came he?and what are his objects?" Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
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CONTENTS
Preface
xi
Abbreviations
xiii
Founders' Day 1998
1
Part One. What We Used to Be Like
1 Bill's Elusive Childhood
17
2 Bill's First Drink
33
3 Bill's Roaring Twenties
49
Part Two. What Happened
4 Bill and the Oxford Group
67
5 Bill's "Hot Flash"
81
6 Bill W. Meets Dr. Bob
97
Part Three. What We Are Like Now
7 Writing the Big Book
115
8 Forging the Traditions
133
9 The Sage of Stepping Stones
151
Afterword: Stepping Stones 1998
169
Notes
179
Index
201
Page xi
PREFACE
It is an intriguing coincidence that William (Griffith) Wilson bore the same name as the title character of a well-known tale by Edgar Allan Poe, whose notoriety as a hopeless drunkard in the nineteenth century compares to Bill W.'s celebrity as a recovered alcoholic in the twentieth.
In "William Wilson," Poe explores the idea of the Doppelgnger, the shadowy double, who haunts the story's dissolute and frequently inebriated narrator with his unaccountable and progressively insufferable materializationsto the point where the nameless narrator is maddened to murder what turns out to be an imago of his own conscientiously sober self. Poe's William Wilson is, in fact, an uncanny prototype of "Bill W."!
The idea of doubleness also governs my treatment of the other William Wilson, the fusion of whose personal identity with A.A. history has tended to obscure whoever may have lived behind the legendary persona. Although Bill W. and Mr. Wilson is by no means a comprehensive biography of its elusive subject, it does represent a type of life writing that is epitomized by A. J. A. Symons's classic The Quest for Corvo (1934), the progenitor of the "quest biography" genre in which the life of the biographical subject is linked to the vicissitudes of the biographer.
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