Working class writers?
Working class writers?
f scott fitzgerald
Nowadays? Not many.
Still, there's always DH Lawrence.
>Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed on his father's side, Francis Scott Key,[1]
Katherine Anne Porter
Theodore Dreiser
Did I do good? :^)
J.K. Rowling
Bukowski? he seemed pretty working class in Ham on Rye
Burpkowski, Céline, Miller, Fante, Kerouac, Homer.
Miller and Kerouac grew up in comfertable middle class homes. Miller had a solid education and a good job until he decieded to become a writer at 30 something.
>implying you know anything about Homer
Zola
this, but Zola takes a bit too far. His books were pretty sterile and felt like reading a scientific report
Jem Casey
She's middle class as fuck
>Homer
Any classical author is by definition not working class, as true working class people never head the means of becoming literate.
This.
Her father was a fucking aircraft engineer for Rolls Royce and her mother was some sort of lab technician.
She grew up in a comfy as fuck house too, easily £250k
Eric Hoffer
Bertolt Brecht, Maxim Gorky, Ernest Hemmingway
Houses in that area sell for 150-250k dating from 2003-now.
tfw it starts to hit you, that all that you've been told about class not being a determining factor and that if you're good you'll succeed, is false.
>seize the means
someone should make this a chart already -
louis-ferdinand céline, jim phelan, nikolai ostrovsky, sherwood anderson, richard ford, frederick barthelme, stewart o'nan, thomas bernhard, norman mailer, horatio alger jr., b. traven, raymond carver, john fante, breece d'j pancake, james t. farell, joy williams, charles portis, henry roth, henry green
The best we can do, my brother, is to sell ourselves as some kind of class novelty to the middle-class publishers. They'll call our style "raw" or some shit. Once we're in, we take it over.
me desu
Glen Cook (did the majority of writing while on break from the factory floor)
James Hanley
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Burns
Alan Sillitoe
celine? wasn't he a doctor?
ted hughes
Anthony Trollope worked for Royal Mail.
he lived in the slums though
China Melville, though he has he disposition of he smugged boojie
Only because he was an antisemite, they deserve to be poor
Henry Roth's first novel is great.
James Kelman is pretty good.
kek
brautigan. more shitpoor than working class
Stowe
literally who the list
t. pleb
This made me imagine a dirty, homeless Homer walking around asking for wine and telling stories in exchange.
Proudhon.
James Joyce
Thomas Hardy
Did these working class writers stay working class or could they live off their writing after they were discovered?
What count' as 'staying working class'?
Should a writer be able to live off his writing?
Doing the same menial job they always did.
joyce lived off of it
>le if you are commercially successful you can't be a true artist meme
That's the point...
by choice though, right? it wasn't like he was on a working/underclass wage.
Kenneth Patchen.
He was in the war but Céline was a doctor.
Joseph Kalar (poet, depression era communist poet, worked in a lumber mill)
Edwin Rolfe (poet, child of jewish immigrants, depression era)
Alfred Doblin (Novelist who was a doctor but wrote about working class people well)
John Dos Passos (Novelist, same as above)
Georg Trakl (expressionist poet)
John Gray (decadent poet)
Antonio Machado (poet/novelist, mostly poor his whole life, worked as a high school teacher)
Herman Melville (worked as a customs clerk for the latter part of life)
Samuel Greenberg (poet, Hart Crane 'borrowed' a poem idea from)