Ay, Caramba!
Well, if Burroughs could sell Nike and Hemingway..what was it, bourbon?
But let's come up with better links between writer and product:
Dostoyevsky: hatchets
Faulkner: whiskey
Proust: cork
Verlaine: pistols
Rimbaud: hashish
Kerouac: automobiles
Gary Snyder: electric cars
Tolkien....