How did your favorite writer support himself financially?

His brother sent him money.

minor aristocrat, father (reluctantly) sent him money as part of his estate

He had a patron

Wrote restaurant reviews for food magazines.

>>8422916
exploiting proletarians

>>8422996
it's Tolstoy?

>>8423042
>minor aristocrat
>father
>Tolstoy

He owned one quarter of the world

>>8422996
Burroughs wasn't an aristocrat but it fits him

She got married.
>tfw no financial independence

>>8423017
Which author?

He sold books he wrote

He worked for the post office.

Sold his books and wrote for the paper.

He was supported by the Church for creations of artistic merit.

moved about from job to job including university postmaster and night manager of the university's power plant
claimed to be night watchmen at a bordello but most people doubt the veracity of this claim

>>8423111

Bukowski

>>8424518
God you're pathetic.

>>8423042
>>8423048
Shelley

>>8423211
Not mention writing columns for The Times Picayune. The bordello thing would be really hard to verify though, it's not like they were above board businesses.

Shot three men, each carrying $300 on them, he used the $900 to start a business enterprise, wrote books in his free time.

programmer for the national assembly

>>8424523
I'm almighty and ubiquitous
now stfu, creature

I don't really have a favorite. I'll give you one though, he was a fighter pilot and then supported himself solely by writing. However I suspect that the bulk of his income came from writing for Hollywood, an activity he "disdained."

>>8424856
pynchon

>>8424869

Bang on.

It was all those aerial kills against V-1s that gave him the inspiration to write GR.

>>8422916
>himself

scrounged off a wealthy female

never had much money, sometimes worked odd jobs and sometimes sponged off friends.

>>8424895
Yes, that is correct.

>>8424974
Who is this?

Baudellaire?

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Let mommy and daddy support him until they died, then got a real job at the tender age of 38 :^)

>>8424974
Lovecraft?

>>8425341
fuck, that's me, have to get a job now, goodbye NEET

>>8422916
- academia
- academia
- bank vice president
- arts HS creative writing teacher
- electronic store clerk / retired

got married to the only girl he ever asked out. she went to work while he stayed home with the kids and wrote his stories. (dream life)

>aristocrat family
>director of the national library
>held a shit ton of talks on universities

He wrote in prison

He make a porn