Can /lit/ help me list a few writers who had an education in a STEM field? So far:
Dostoevsky - Military Engineering
Gene Wolfe - Mechanical Engineering
Lewis Caroll - Math
Kurt Vonnegut - Biochemistry
Arthur C. Clark - Physics
Asimov did research in chemistry, then became a full-time writer, then back to chemistry, then back to writing
He even wrote a fake chemistry paper with SF parts to prepare for his return to chemistry
Ted Chiang is foremost a technical writer in the software industry
There are numerous biologists who were also great essayists - Modawar, Gould, Dawkins, Lewin, Lewontin etc.
Primo Levi worked in chemistry too, which is all over his work
William Carlos Williams was an MD. I think Nawal El Sadaawi is too.
>>7337753
>Dostoevsky - Military Engineering
I had no idea - how interesting.
>>7337753
Pynchon
>>7337785
Actually no. He dropped in his first year of engineering and then studied english.
>>7337788
One year of engineering, which is purportedly the most difficult class at Cornell, is still considerable imo.
John Keats was a doctor of some sort, right?
>>7337797
A pussy doctor, for sure.
>>7337800
He died a virgin, poor sod
>>7337864
Wait, really?
>>7337867
No lol he went to brothels with his broskis all the time. He just never bagged fanny.
>>7337758
>Dawkins
>great essayist
>>7337994
>greentexters
>adding to the discussion
>>7338014
The irony...
>>7338024
>not understanding irony
Just stop with your shitposting, it's a bit embarrassing
I'm still waiting on why Dawkins isn't a great essayist
Have you read The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, What is science good for, Snake Oil, Viruses of the mind?
>>7338034
The extra irony...