WRITING

Is It Ok to Be a Wealthy Writer?

Or does growing up in poverty make you the real deal?

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When we hear the word writer, we instantly think of struggle. An image foisted on us by books, movies, and modern culture. The struggling writer living off breadcrumbs sits at a candlelit table pounding away at a novel no one will ever read.

But is it true? Take a book from your shelf (if you have one). Is it one of these authors?

Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, Mary Shelley, Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Bret Easton Ellis, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, William S. Burroughs, Evelyn Waugh.

No? Doesn’t matter. You’ll know the names. But what links them?

They were rich. Or at least their families were. Of course, the work still has to be done. Being rich doesn't mean a person can write, and it certainly doesn’t guarantee literary stardom. But it helps.

If a person chooses to go down that avenue, having financial security is a benefit. Not to mention the many advantages of having good connections, which is half the battle.