The Academic Convert
This American author and humorist dropped out of school at age 12, summing up his disdain for public education by saying: "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Who is Mark Twain?
This Chicago-born Chicana, author of “The House on Mango Street,” attended the world-famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop, of which she has said she became a writer “in spite of.”
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
This untameable American author, born in 1876 in San Francisco, quit school at the age of 14 to find adventure and explore the country by hopping trains. He went back to complete high school at the age of 19 before heading to the University of California, Berkeley. A year later, he quit school again to seek his fortune in the Klondike gold rush.
Who was Jack London?
This contemporary American author received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School more than two decades before his cautionary tale about genetic engineering set in an amusement park was published.
Who was John Michael Crichton?