Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers

By Tracy O’Neill

Before these writers became literary rockstars, they nine-to-fived in hospitals, insurance offices, courtrooms, tennis courts, post offices, banks, and asbestos plants. Yet whether they were pushing papers for the bureaucracy, being kept men, or going undercover they lent poignancy to the term multitasking.

CRITICAL LIST
Franz Kafka Towering 20th-Century Novelist
Anthony Trollope English Writer
Henry Miller American Writer
Raymond Chandler Master of the Detective Story
William Carlos Williams American Poet
Herman Melville Great Writer of the Sea
Kenneth Grahame Scottish Writer
Charles Bukowski American Poet and Writer
Wallace Stevens Revered American Poet
John le Carré British Novelist

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Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers

Franz Kafka

Anthony Trollope

Henry Miller

Raymond Chandler

William Carlos Williams

Herman Melville

Kenneth Grahame

Charles Bukowski

Wallace Stevens

John le Carré

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