Who are some of the greatest/most known authors that never really

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>>8624254
homer :3

>>8624254
Well there's Shakespeare of course.

>>8624254
Gaddis went to Harvard but got expelled before graduating.

>>8624254
Memeingway

>>8624281
Do we know what he got expelled for? googling just says "altercation with police" with no details

>>8624382
Remember a column saying it was for " 'general hell-raising' in Cambridge"

Jack London

Laborer from the slums and one-time literal hobo managed to get into college, but didnt have the money for tuition and dropped out.

Then became an autodidact and, ironic given his hardline socialism, one of the richest writers in the world by a landslide. Had an estate staffed with servants while he decried the Socialist Party of his time for being sellouts.

Also Thomas Hardy. The Jude the Obscure one, not Bane the Obscure.

Bolaño, Juan Rulfo

>>8624254
Jack Kerouac

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>>8624270

knut hamsun

if we're counting dropouts william faulkner

>>8624254
Anyone from antiquity.

Katherine Mansfield

>>8624254

A large chunk of authors from antiquity who were slaves and freed by their owners.

John clare, he was a peasant who was also a poet and rose to fame but lamented how everyone around him were a bunch of idiot farmers who wanted nothing to do with the arts, and the rich didn't accept him.

Terence the most famous latin playwright was a freed slave and one of the most used authors for helping students/priests learn latin for over a thousand years with his concise clear language.

vagina wolf

>>8624270
Homer wasn't a real person

>>8624698
SHE was real

>>8624750
AND BLACK

>>8624782
>>8624750
SHE

>>8624789
WUZ

You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.

>>8625840

This is my first time encountering this copy pasta and I like it a lot

Melville. A whale-ship was his Yale College and his Harvard.

>>8624254
Phillip K. Dick dropped out of UC Berkeley because he was too liberal.

It was actually to avoid the mandatory military service that UC graduates were obligated to perform after graduation.

>>8625850
Brand new. Head over to the Dante thread.

Me desu minus the not going to college and being a writer

Many people contributed to the Bible. How many of them had formal education? No way to know.

Hemingway, Capote, Faulkner

>>8624254
The vast majority of authors from the 19th century--and before--did not go to university.

But less than 1% of the population (roughly put) went to university back then. So this doesn't mean our authors were poor, stupid, or unintellectual. For example, most of these authors knew Latin and even Greek, which are ignored by many of today's graduates. More often than not, they had an enviable financial situation, etc.

Proust
iirc Tolstoi dropped out
Bolaño didnt even finish high school, and in interviews he sounds more educated than your average english major
Cervantez

>>8624467
Kerouac went to Columbia along with the other Beats.

Sherwood Anderson

JORGE LUIS BORGES.

>>8624467
>le neutral milk hotel inspiration hobo man
>great author

>>8624254
Five bucks says OP is a teenager that thinks he's just too smart for school and seeks to justify that by finding others he deems the same.

Herman Hesse.