Real name William Wilson. Anti-labor stock broker during the 1920's, lost money and status during the 1930's due to heavy drinking and the crash of '29. For awhile, a patient of Carl Jung, and even took belladonna.
Co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous by ripping off the best parts of the Oxford Group, thus limiting addiction treatment in America to a lifelong course of faith healing.
Shameless and tireless self-promoter while alive, shamelessly and tirelessly idolized while dead.