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Authors who Have Written about Poverty
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![]() 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 Chekhov (I don't remember if I verified this or not...) Harry Crews Rick Bragg Sherman Alexie Catherine Cookson Upton Sinclair Fyodor Dostoyevsky George Bernard Shaw
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