I think I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating.
The following writers could not get hired for a newspaper job if the criteria required a college degree:
- James Baldwin
- Ambrose Bierce
- Erskine Caldwell
- Truman Capote
- Agatha Christie
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Joseph Conrad
- Theodore Dreiser
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dashiell Hammett
- Ben Hecht
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
- Jack Kerouac
- Jack London
- Henry Miller
- Dorothy Parker
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Geneva Grace Stratton (Gene Stratton Porter)
- William Saroyan
- Mickey Spillane
- John Steinbeck
- Dylan Thomas
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Leon Uris
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