Working class writers?

f scott fitzgerald

>>9429694
Nowadays? Not many.

Still, there's always DH Lawrence.

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>>9429862
>Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed on his father's side, Francis Scott Key,[1]

Katherine Anne Porter
Theodore Dreiser
Did I do good? :^)

J.K. Rowling

Bukowski? he seemed pretty working class in Ham on Rye

>>9429694
Burpkowski, Céline, Miller, Fante, Kerouac, Homer.

>>9429943
Miller and Kerouac grew up in comfertable middle class homes. Miller had a solid education and a good job until he decieded to become a writer at 30 something.
>implying you know anything about Homer

>>9429694
Zola

>>9430139
this, but Zola takes a bit too far. His books were pretty sterile and felt like reading a scientific report

Jem Casey

>>9429925
She's middle class as fuck

>>9429943
>Homer

Any classical author is by definition not working class, as true working class people never head the means of becoming literate.

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>>9430167
This.

Her father was a fucking aircraft engineer for Rolls Royce and her mother was some sort of lab technician.

She grew up in a comfy as fuck house too, easily £250k

>>9429694
Eric Hoffer

>>9429694
Bertolt Brecht, Maxim Gorky, Ernest Hemmingway

>>9430268
Houses in that area sell for 150-250k dating from 2003-now.

>>9429694
tfw it starts to hit you, that all that you've been told about class not being a determining factor and that if you're good you'll succeed, is false.

>seize the means

someone should make this a chart already -

louis-ferdinand céline, jim phelan, nikolai ostrovsky, sherwood anderson, richard ford, frederick barthelme, stewart o'nan, thomas bernhard, norman mailer, horatio alger jr., b. traven, raymond carver, john fante, breece d'j pancake, james t. farell, joy williams, charles portis, henry roth, henry green

>>9430304
The best we can do, my brother, is to sell ourselves as some kind of class novelty to the middle-class publishers. They'll call our style "raw" or some shit. Once we're in, we take it over.

>>9429694
me desu

>>9429694
Glen Cook (did the majority of writing while on break from the factory floor)
James Hanley
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Burns
Alan Sillitoe

celine? wasn't he a doctor?

ted hughes

Anthony Trollope worked for Royal Mail.

>>9430824

he lived in the slums though

China Melville, though he has he disposition of he smugged boojie

>>9430847
Only because he was an antisemite, they deserve to be poor

>>9429694
Henry Roth's first novel is great.
James Kelman is pretty good.

>>9430165
kek

brautigan. more shitpoor than working class

>>9429694
Stowe

>>9430327
literally who the list

>>9431075

t. pleb

>>9430114
This made me imagine a dirty, homeless Homer walking around asking for wine and telling stories in exchange.

>>9429694
Proudhon.

James Joyce

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Thomas Hardy

Did these working class writers stay working class or could they live off their writing after they were discovered?

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>>9431440
What count' as 'staying working class'?

>>9431440
Should a writer be able to live off his writing?

>>9431525
Doing the same menial job they always did.

>>9431440
joyce lived off of it

>>9431528
>le if you are commercially successful you can't be a true artist meme

>>9430161
That's the point...

>>9430847
by choice though, right? it wasn't like he was on a working/underclass wage.

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Kenneth Patchen.

>>9429943
He was in the war but Céline was a doctor.

Joseph Kalar (poet, depression era communist poet, worked in a lumber mill)
Edwin Rolfe (poet, child of jewish immigrants, depression era)
Alfred Doblin (Novelist who was a doctor but wrote about working class people well)
John Dos Passos (Novelist, same as above)
Georg Trakl (expressionist poet)
John Gray (decadent poet)
Antonio Machado (poet/novelist, mostly poor his whole life, worked as a high school teacher)
Herman Melville (worked as a customs clerk for the latter part of life)
Samuel Greenberg (poet, Hart Crane 'borrowed' a poem idea from)