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FROM: "Martha Garbison" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 12:28 PM

Dear Fiction-L'ers

I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.

Classic authors:
Albert Camus
John Donne
H. G. Wells
James Joyce
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Sherwood Anderson
George Bernard Shaw
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov

on the more contemporary side:

Frank McCourt
Harry Crews
Rick Bragg
Sherman Alexie

Thanks for your input!!

Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
Burnham Hoyt Room
Denver Public Library

FROM: "Vinton Library" <[removed]@netins.net>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 12:43 PM

Catherine Cookson grew up in poverty and many of her books deal with
poverty.

Virginia Holsten
Vinton Public Lilbrary
Vinton, IA

FROM: [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 1/9/01, 12:49 PM

How about Nuala O'Faolain? She published her memoirs and has a novel
that's about to be published.

Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley MA

FROM: Greta Ulrich <[removed]@nileslibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 12:57 PM

Charles Dickens had an impoverished childhood.

Greta Ulrich
Niles Public Library
Niles, IL

-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Garbison [[removed]@denver.lib.co.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:17 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: authors- poverty


Dear Fiction-L'ers

I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly
fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or
poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found
these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.

Classic authors:
Albert Camus
John Donne
H. G. Wells
James Joyce
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Sherwood Anderson
George Bernard Shaw
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov

on the more contemporary side:

Frank McCourt
Harry Crews
Rick Bragg
Sherman Alexie

Thanks for your input!!

Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
Burnham Hoyt Room
Denver Public Library

FROM: "Melissa Norton" <[removed]@bridgton.lib.me.us>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 1:03 PM

Zora Neale Hurston
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Melissa Norton [removed]@bridgton.lib.me.us
Asst. Librarian & Webmaster www.bridgton.lib.me.us
Bridgton Public Library
65 Main St.
Bridgton ME 04009
207-647-2472
-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Garbison <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:26 PM
Subject: authors- poverty


Dear Fiction-L'ers

I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly
fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or
poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found
these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.

Classic authors:
Albert Camus
John Donne
H. G. Wells
James Joyce
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Sherwood Anderson
George Bernard Shaw
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov

on the more contemporary side:

Frank McCourt
Harry Crews
Rick Bragg
Sherman Alexie

Thanks for your input!!

Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
Burnham Hoyt Room
Denver Public Library

FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 1:21 PM

How about Dorothy Allison (Bastard out of Carolina)?

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/9/01, 1:43 PM

Charles Dickens

FROM: "Steven A. Roman" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 1:49 PM

Isn't there a background of poverty in Charles Dickens' life?

Steven A. Roman
Addison Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Garbison [[removed]@denver.lib.co.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:17 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: authors- poverty


Dear Fiction-L'ers

I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly
fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or
poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found
these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.

Classic authors:
Albert Camus
John Donne
H. G. Wells
James Joyce
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Sherwood Anderson
George Bernard Shaw
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov

on the more contemporary side:

Frank McCourt
Harry Crews
Rick Bragg
Sherman Alexie

Thanks for your input!!

Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
Burnham Hoyt Room
Denver Public Library

FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 2:55 PM

The other McCourt brother, Malachy, might be applicable, too.

There's also the famous story of J.K. Rowling enduring, if not grinding poverty, at least a certain degree of it, while writing You Know What.

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

** All opinions are personal. **

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From: "Martha Garbison" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:16:57 -0700

>Dear Fiction-L'ers
>
>I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.
>
>Classic authors:
>Albert Camus
>John Donne
>H. G. Wells
>James Joyce
>George Orwell
>Richard Wright
>Sherwood Anderson
>George Bernard Shaw
>Upton Sinclair
>Jack London
>Maxim Gorky
>Anton Chekhov
>
>on the more contemporary side:
>
>Frank McCourt
>Harry Crews
>Rick Bragg
>Sherman Alexie
>
>Thanks for your input!!
>
>Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
>Burnham Hoyt Room
>Denver Public Library
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Karen Munro" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 3:01 PM

Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina (contemporary)

>From: "Martha Garbison" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: authors- poverty
>Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:16:57 -0700
>
>Dear Fiction-L'ers
>
>I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly
>fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or
>poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found
>these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.
>
>Classic authors:
>Albert Camus
>John Donne
>H. G. Wells
>James Joyce
>George Orwell
>Richard Wright
>Sherwood Anderson
>George Bernard Shaw
>Upton Sinclair
>Jack London
>Maxim Gorky
>Anton Chekhov
>
>on the more contemporary side:
>
>Frank McCourt
>Harry Crews
>Rick Bragg
>Sherman Alexie
>
>Thanks for your input!!
>
>Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
>Burnham Hoyt Room
>Denver Public Library
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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FROM: "Warner" <[removed]@massed.net>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 3:19 PM

Richard Rhodes, A Hole in the World A wonderful autobiography
Charles Dickens
----- Original Message -----
From: Martha Garbison <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:16 PM
Subject: authors- poverty


Dear Fiction-L'ers

I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly
fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or
poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found
these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.

Classic authors:
Albert Camus
John Donne
H. G. Wells
James Joyce
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Sherwood Anderson
George Bernard Shaw
Upton Sinclair
Jack London
Maxim Gorky
Anton Chekhov

on the more contemporary side:

Frank McCourt
Harry Crews
Rick Bragg
Sherman Alexie

Thanks for your input!!

Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
Burnham Hoyt Room
Denver Public Library

FROM: "Warner" <[removed]@massed.net>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 3:25 PM

Anthony Trollope

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/9/01, 4:01 PM

Didn't Edgar Allen Poe live in abject poverty? He certainly died that way.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 5:31 PM

At 11:16 AM 1/9/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear Fiction-L'ers
>
>I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly
fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or
poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. <snip>

Two more for your "classic" list; in each case, their best-known novel
involves poverty and is partially autobiographical: George Gissing
(NEW GRUB STREET) and the Norwegian Knut Hamsun (HUNGER).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Vicki Nesting <[removed]@bellsouth.net>
REC'D: 1/9/01, 8:47 PM

Having heard Jim Grimsley (Winter Birds, My Drowning) speak candidly and
emotionally about his life and work, I'm sure he would fit into this
category. I would also suggest Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca
Harding Davis (first published in 1861). And while Anne Moody did not
write fiction, I highly recommend her powerful autobiography, Coming of
Age in Mississippi, which offers a vivid picture of grinding poverty and racism.

Chris Offutt might also fit into this category. The stories in his
book, Kentucky Straight, certainly reads as though they were drawn from experience.

I'm reminded of Tillie Olsen's wonderful book, Silences, in which she
refers to "...the silences where the lives never came to writing. Among
these, the mute inglorious Miltons: those whose waking hours are all
struggle for existence; the barely educated; the illiterate; women.
Their silence the silence of centuries as to how life was, is, for most
of humanity."


I hope you'll compile and post your list when completed.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vicki Nesting, Regional Branch Librarian
St. Charles Parish
East Regional Library
Destrehan, Louisiana
[removed]@stcharles.lib.la.us
[removed]@bellsouth.net

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FROM: Suzanne Booker <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 1/11/01, 8:15 AM

Charles Bukowski is a good example. He grew up in poverty during the
depression and spent most of his adult life living on (and writing about)
skid row. Although he is primarily recognised as a poet, he also wrote
several notable novels and collections of short stories. He describes his
horrid childhood in the semiautobiographical novel "Ham on Rye."
Susie

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Martha Garbison wrote:

> Dear Fiction-L'ers
>
> I am looking for authors (mostly authors of classics and who wrote mostly fiction) who not only wrote about poverty, but grew up in poverty and/or poverty was present in a significant portion of their lives. I have found these authors and welcome any and all suggestions from you all.
>
> Classic authors:
> Albert Camus
> John Donne
> H. G. Wells
> James Joyce
> George Orwell
> Richard Wright
> Sherwood Anderson
> George Bernard Shaw
> Upton Sinclair
> Jack London
> Maxim Gorky
> Anton Chekhov
>
> on the more contemporary side:
>
> Frank McCourt
> Harry Crews
> Rick Bragg
> Sherman Alexie
>
> Thanks for your input!!
>
> Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
> Burnham Hoyt Room
> Denver Public Library
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Jennifer Loeffel <[removed]@mcfls.org>
REC'D: 1/11/01, 1:32 PM

I just happened to read an interview with T. Coraghessan Boyle in which he said he grew up very poor.

Jennifer Loeffel
Greendale Public Library

FROM: "Gisele Tremblay" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/11/01, 10:20 PM

Sorry if duplicate : Russell Banks

Gisèle Tremblay
Montreal Municipal Library
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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FROM: "Martha Garbison" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 11:10 AM

Thanks for all contributions to this list and for everyone's patience in waiting for this list... These are authors who have written about poverty and spent at least a portion of their lives in poverty, unless noted otherwise.

Charles Dickens
Nuala O'Faolain
Dorothy Allison
J. K. Rowling
Anthony Trollope (need to verify this author)
Edgar Allen Poe (did die in poverty, writings don't really reflect this)
Frank and Malachi McCourt
Jim Grimsley
Rebecca Harding Davis
Anne Moody
Chris Offutt (did write about...can't verify life of poverty)
Tillie Olsen (wrote about but can't find anything that reflects she was poor during her life)
George Gissing
Knut Hamsun
Emile Zola
Charles Bukowski
Albert Camus
John Donne
H. G. Wells
James Joyce
George Orwell
Richard Wright
Jack London
Maxim Gorky
Anton Checkhov (I don't remember if I verified this or not...)
Harry Crews
Rick Bragg
Sherman Alexie
Catherine Cookson
Upton Sinclair
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George Burnard Shaw

Thanks,
Martha Garbison

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