School’s Out: Literature’s Greatest Dropouts
By Damian Van DenburghWhether dropping out in defiance or being called away by extenuating circumstances, none of these legendary writers ever received a college diploma or threw a mortarboard in the air. None of them seems to have wound up the worse for it, either.
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 Donald BarthelmeBoldly Experimental Writer Unequaled innovator of experimental fiction. |
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 Ray BradburyAmerican Writer |
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 Charles DickensBritish Author |
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 William FaulknerMajor Southern Writer |
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 F. Scott FitzgeraldGreat American Novelist |
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 Ring LardnerSwitch Hitter of Frank Wit Lardner recreated the very voices of Americans with a keen sense of dialect. |
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 Doris LessingBritish Writer |
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 Herman MelvilleGreat Writer of the Sea |
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 J. D. SalingerFamously Reclusive American Writer Salinger wrote the most influential coming-of-age novel in American literature, and then almost completely receded from public life. |
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 George Bernard ShawIrish Writer |
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 Mark TwainCanonical American Writer |
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 Walt WhitmanLarge, Contains Multitudes |
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