100 Published BooksJohn Wilmot
See John Wilmot Rochester for pseudonymous works by the Russian spiritualist V.I. Kryzhanovskaya.
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester was an English libertine, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.
He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts. He married an heiress, Elizabeth Malet, but had many mistresses, including the actress Elizabeth Barry and drank himself to death at the tender age of 33.
