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Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836–1870)
Ludlow, Fitzhugh. An American journalist and author; born in Poughkeepsie, NY, Sept. 11, 1836; died in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 12, 1870. His most famous work is ‘The Hasheesh Eater’ (1857), a glowing portrayal of the early delights and later horrors of addiction to the drug. In 1868 he published ‘The Opium Habit,’ a warning against that habit, to which he himself later became a victim. He wrote also ‘The Heart of the Continent’ (1870). His poem ‘Too Late’ is familiar in anthologies.