Jackson, Charles [Reginald]

Jackson, Charles [Reginald]( 1903–68),
author of The Lost Weekend (1944), a psychological novel of five days in an alcoholic's life; The Fall of Valor (1946), about a man with homosexual tendencies; The Outer Edges (1948), about the effects of a horrid newspaper story on readers; and Earthly Creatures (1953), stories.