Editing Hotel Chelsea (section)

=== Literature ===
The Hotel Chelsea has housed numerous literary figures, some of whom wrote their books there. [[Arthur C. Clarke]] wrote ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' while staying at the Chelsea,<ref name="Dowd 1983" /><ref name="The Telegraph 2011">{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2011 |title=Famous residents of the Chelsea Hotel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8676489/Famous-residents-of-the-Chelsea-Hotel.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=The Telegraph |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021220359/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8676489/Famous-residents-of-the-Chelsea-Hotel.html |url-status=live}}</ref> calling the hotel his "spiritual home" despite its condition.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dreifus |first=Claudia |date=October 26, 1999 |title=A Conversation With/Arthur C. Clarke; An Author's Space Odyssey and His Stay at the Chelsea |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/science/conversation-with-arthur-c-clarke-author-s-space-odyssey-his-stay-chelsea.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=November 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126131331/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/science/conversation-with-arthur-c-clarke-author-s-space-odyssey-his-stay-chelsea.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Thomas Wolfe]] lived in the hotel before his death in 1938,<ref name="Padnani 2017">{{Cite news |last=Padnani |first=Amisha |author-link=Amy Padnani |date=February 15, 2017 |title=From Thomas Wolfe to Sid Vicious, Artists and the Chelsea Hotel |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/nyregion/from-thomas-wolfe-to-sid-vicious-artists-and-the-chelsea-hotel.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=June 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621014152/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/nyregion/from-thomas-wolfe-to-sid-vicious-artists-and-the-chelsea-hotel.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Clark 2002">{{Cite news |last=Clark |first=John |date=April 17, 2002 |title=Offbeat goes on at Chelsea |page=40 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-offbeat-goes-on-at-chelsea/133464078/ |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021220906/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-offbeat-goes-on-at-chelsea/133464078/ |url-status=live}}</ref> writing several books such as ''[[You Can't Go Home Again]]'';<ref name="Jordan 2021" /> he often walked around the halls to gain inspiration for his writing.<ref name="Dowd 1983" /> [[William S. Burroughs]] also lived at the Chelsea.<ref name="Dowd 1983" /><ref name="Hoby 2010">{{Cite news |last=Hoby |first=Hermione |date=December 19, 2010 |title=The 10 best Chelsea hotel moments -GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2010/dec/19/10-best-chelsea-hotel-moments |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=August 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230808204356/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2010/dec/19/10-best-chelsea-hotel-moments |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Miller 1999">{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Cathleen |date=January 24, 1999 |title=Chelsea Moaning |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1999/01/24/chelsea-moaning/b0d2728a-feaf-4f4a-88f2-860af13e9fde/ |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=August 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828041926/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1999/01/24/chelsea-moaning/b0d2728a-feaf-4f4a-88f2-860af13e9fde/ |url-status=live}}</ref> While living at the Chelsea, [[Edgar Lee Masters]] wrote 18 poetry books,<ref name="Clark 2002" /> often wandering the hotel for hours.<ref name="The Troy Record 1946" />

Welsh poet [[Dylan Thomas]] (who lived with his wife [[Caitlin Thomas]]<ref name="Harrington 2014" /><ref name="Tippins p. 113" />) was staying in room 205 when he became ill and died in 1953,<ref name="The Telegraph 2011" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" /> while American poet [[Delmore Schwartz]] spent the last few years of his life in seclusion at the Chelsea before he died in 1966.<ref>{{cite book |last=Atlas |first=James |title=Delmore Schwartz: The Life of An American Poet |publisher=Farrar, Straus, Giroux |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-374-13761-8 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/delmoreschwartzl00atla/page/330/mode/2up 330–331] |author-link=James Atlas}}</ref> Irish playwright and poet [[Brendan Behan]], a severe alcoholic who had been ejected from the [[Algonquin Hotel]], lived at the hotel for several months before his death in 1964.<ref name="Harrington 2014" /> Many poets of the [[Beat poetry]] movement also lived at the Chelsea before the [[Beat Hotel]] in Paris became popular.<ref name="Harrington 2014" />

Other authors, writers, and journalists who stayed or lived at the hotel have included:
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* [[Henry Abbey]], poet<ref name="Tippins p. 27" />
* [[Nelson Algren]], writer<ref name="The Austin Statesman 1966" />
* [[Léonie Adams]], poet; lived with husband William Troy<ref name="Tippins p. 129">{{Harvnb|Tippins|2013|p=129|ps=.}}</ref>
* [[Sherwood Anderson]], writer<ref name="Payne 1977" /><ref name="Miller 1999" />
* [[Ben Lucien Burman]], writer<ref name="Tippins p. 77" />
* [[Henri Chopin]], poet and musician<ref name="Tippins p. 185" />
* [[Ira Cohen]], poet and filmmaker<ref name="Tippins 2013">{{harvnb|ps=.|Tippins|2013|pp=324–325}}</ref>
* [[Gregory Corso]], poet<ref name="Brown 2021" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Divola |first=Barry |date=February 8, 2009 |title=Chelsea Hotel, New York review: A story behind every door |url=https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/chelsea-hotel-new-york-review-a-story-behind-every-door-20090205-7yme.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021220903/https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/chelsea-hotel-new-york-review-a-story-behind-every-door-20090205-7yme.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Hart Crane]], poet<ref name="Miller 2010" />
* [[Quentin Crisp]], writer and actor<ref name="Tippins 2022" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Verniere |first=James |date=July 8, 2022 |title='Dreaming Walls' checks into lure & lore of famed Chelsea Hotel |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/08/dreaming-walls-checks-into-lure-lore-of-famed-chelsea-hotel/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=Boston Herald |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710195648/https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/08/dreaming-walls-checks-into-lure-lore-of-famed-chelsea-hotel/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Jane Cunningham Croly]], journalist<ref name="Wolfe 1898" /><ref name="Tippins p. 59" />
* [[Katherine Dunn]], novelist and journalist<ref name="The Record 1988" />
* [[Edward Eggleston]], writer<ref name="Wolfe 1898" />
* [[James T. Farrell]], novelist<ref name="Newsday 1978" /><ref name="Tippins p. 109">{{Harvnb|Tippins|2013|p=109|ps=.}}</ref>
* [[Allen Ginsberg]], poet<ref name="Brown 2021" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" />
* [[John Giorno]], poet<ref name="Tippins p. 210" />
* [[Maurice Girodias]], publisher<ref name="Tippins p. 228" />
* [[Pete Hamill]], journalist<ref name="Nathan 1993" />
* [[Bernard Heidsieck]], poet<ref name="Tippins p. 185">{{harvnb|Tippins|2013|ps=.|p=185}}</ref>
* [[O. Henry]], writer<ref name="Chamberlain 2007" />
* [[Herbert Huncke]], poet<ref name="Brown 2021" /><ref name="USA Today 2006" />
* [[Clifford Irving]], novelist and reporter<ref name="Dougherty 1982" /><ref name="Tippins p. 289">{{harvnb|ps=.|Tippins|2013|p=289}}</ref>
* [[Charles R. Jackson]], author<ref name="The Austin Statesman 1966" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Bailey |first=Blake |date=February 28, 2013 |title=The Lost Weekend: Charles Jackson's Stirring Addiction Novel and the Oscar-Winning Movie It Became |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/03/charles-jackson-lost-weekend-billy-wilder |access-date=October 13, 2023 |magazine=Vanity Fair |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601155540/https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/03/charles-jackson-lost-weekend-billy-wilder |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Theodora Keogh]], novelist<ref name="Tippins p. 210" />
* [[Jack Kerouac]], writer<ref name="Moore 2022" /><ref name="USA Today 2006">{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2006-03-09-beat-landmarks_x.htm |title=10 great places to get on the road and feel the Beat |work=USA Today |date=March 10, 2006 |access-date=December 16, 2007 |archive-date=February 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211012112/http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2006-03-09-beat-landmarks_x.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Suzanne La Follette]], journalist<ref name="Tippins p. 77" />
* [[John La Touche (lyricist)|John La Touche]], lyricist<ref name="The Troy Record 1946" />
* [[Jakov Lind]], novelist<ref name="Bragg 1992" />
* [[Mary McCarthy (author)|Mary McCarthy]], novelist and political activist<ref name="Tippins p. 109" /><ref name="The Austin Statesman 1966" />
* [[Arthur Miller]], playwright<ref name="Heyman 2013" /><ref name="Hoby 2010" />
* [[Jessica Mitford]], author<ref name="Miller 2010" />
* [[Vladimir Nabokov]], novelist<ref name="Payne 1977" />
* [[Eugene O'Neill]], playwright<ref name="Miller 1999" />
* [[Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964)|Joseph O'Neill]], novelist<ref name="Hoby 2010" />
* [[Claude Pélieu]], poet and artist<ref name="Tippins p. 185" />
* [[Rene Ricard]], poet<ref name="Tippins p. 210" />
* [[James Schuyler]], poet<ref name="Tippins p. 342" />
* [[Sam Shepard]], playwright and actor<ref name="Sell 2002" /><ref name="Connelly 2013">{{cite web |last=Connelly |first=Sherryl |date=November 16, 2013 |title=Legends of Hotel Chelsea chronicled in new book that covers what inspired Andy Warhol, relegated Sid Vicious to 'junkies' floor' before he killed Nancy |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/11/16/legends-of-hotel-chelsea-chronicled-in-new-book-that-covers-what-inspired-andy-warhol-relegated-sid-vicious-to-junkies-floor-before-he-killed-nancy/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=[[New York Daily News]] |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021220904/https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/11/16/legends-of-hotel-chelsea-chronicled-in-new-book-that-covers-what-inspired-andy-warhol-relegated-sid-vicious-to-junkies-floor-before-he-killed-nancy/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Valerie Solanas]], writer<ref name="Connelly 2013" /><ref name="Tippins p. 228">{{harvnb|Tippins|2013|ps=.|p=228}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Stolberg]], publicist and author<ref name="Tippins p. 77" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 22, 1951 |title=B. Stolberg, 59, Expert on Labor; Author of 'Story of C.I.O.' and a Critique of New Deal Dies — Former Post Columnist |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/22/archives/b-stolberg-59-expert-on-labor-author-of-story-of-cio-and-a-critique.html |access-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021220905/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/22/archives/b-stolberg-59-expert-on-labor-author-of-story-of-cio-and-a-critique.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Richard Suskind]], children's writer<ref name="Tippins p. 289" />
* [[William Troy (educator)|William Troy]], critic; lived with wife Léonie Adams<ref name="Tippins p. 129" />
* [[Mark Twain]], writer<ref name="Dowd 1983" /><ref name="Cho 2022" />
* [[Gore Vidal]], writer<ref name="Harrington 2014" /><ref name="Detrick 2011" />
* [[Arnold Weinstein]], librettist<ref name="Tippins p. 342">{{harvnb|ps=.|Tippins|2013|p=342}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Midgette |first=Anne|author-link=Anne Midgette|title=Arnold Weinstein, 78, a Poet and Collaborator on Operas, Is Dead |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 6, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/theater/arnold-weinstein-78-a-poet-and-collaborator-on-operas-is-dead.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021220906/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/theater/arnold-weinstein-78-a-poet-and-collaborator-on-operas-is-dead.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Tennessee Williams]], playwright<ref name="Heyman 2013" /><ref name="Chamberlain 2007" />
* [[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]], poet<ref name="Burton 1971" />
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