Odd Lots #1 answer
One reader has suggested that what Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Emma Goldman, Mary Renault and P.D. James have in common is that they each wrote at least one book, and wrote in English. Nice try. Actually, before any of them got into the book-writing business, they were in nursing! (Whitman and Alcott during the Civil War, the others at various times since.)
Okay, here's Odd Lot #2: Edgar Allen Poe, Chris Kristofferson, and Timothy Leary. Yes, they're all anglophone, and I think wrote at least one book apiece. Try looking for something else.
Okay, here's Odd Lot #2: Edgar Allen Poe, Chris Kristofferson, and Timothy Leary. Yes, they're all anglophone, and I think wrote at least one book apiece. Try looking for something else.
posted by WiredSisters at 10:56 AM
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Other than male and pharmaceutically UN-challenged, I presume.....
*scurries away to think*
Ok, I'm going to go with the West Point connection. Poe and Leary were both students--and both were dismissed. Kristofferson, who had a successful military career, apparently turned down a teaching position (or resigned his commission when assigned to West Point) to move to Nashville and dive into the Country/Western songwriting world.
By George he's got it!
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