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by Dylan16807
999 days ago
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> By definition - isn't the market going to be dominated by successful participants? They said well-off, and when it comes to book sales being part of the successful masses is a few steps short of making you well-off. > writers Almost all of these are from the 1800s? That doesn't contradict the idea that a group "not always" dominated but has "long" dominated. You only named two authors that are clearly recent enough to be relevant to the argument. |
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Wharton is rich (the phrase keeping up with the Joneses comes from her family), Woolf and Gertrude Stein are well-off and McCullers & Plath a bit less so. Harper Lee's father was a lawyer, and she's a one-hit wonder. Toni Morrison was not rich...
The vast majority of men - who dominate (not the women) - are not from well-off families: Steinbeck, Orwell, Sinclair, Tolkein, Fitzgerald, Lewis Carroll, Tennessee Williams, D.H Lawrence, Jack London (who claimed to be poor but wasn't), Kerouac, Vonnegut. Stephen King and Stan Lee were arguably poor.
Hemingway, Salinger, Conrad, Roald Dahl, and Joseph Heller are not from wealth, but definitely not poor.
Frank L Baum was wealthy, similar to Melville & Hugo - Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Jane Austen - but less so than Tolstoy.