Bill G is the author of the Big Book story (p. 499 in 2nd edition.)"There Is Nothing The Matter With Me".
"That's what the man said as he hocked his shoes for the price of two bottles of Sneaky Pete. He drank bayzo, canned heat, and shoe polish. He did a phony routine in A.A. for a while. And then he got hold of the real thing." Bill got sober in 1945. He went to Bellvue Hospital over 30 times. (See Silkworth.net for his biography.)