07/27/2023
HERE ARE 7 ACCLAIMED WRITERS who have had a tremendous influence on western literary thought and style during the 20th and 21st centuries. Despite their different times, different media, and different genres, there is one professional commonality between them.
• Aldous Huxley – Author of the futuristic classic “Brave New World”, poet and sonneteer.
• James Patterson – It’s not feasible to list his titles here, but his best selling books add up to over 230 million.
• Helen Gurlry Brown an icon of the Women’s Movement that began in the 1950’s and continues today. HGB was the long-time Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine and penned the influential “Sex and the Single Girl”.
• Joseph Heller, Author of the classic “Catch 22” and a leader of American thought from 1961 to his death in 1999.
• Salman Rushdie, his “The Satanic Verses” were a worldwide phenomenon that forced him to live in hiding for decades due to the fatwas placed on him by Muslim clerics who found his boob blasphemous.
• Elmore Leonard, a prolific writer of what was called “pulp fiction” was also an Award-Winning Author and Screenwriter. Among his many books and credits are “Get Shorty” (John Travolta”, “Mr Majestyk” (Charles Bronson), and “Hombre” (Paul Newman).
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, the writer who led and influenced generations of Americans with his classic “The Great Gatsby”.
And their Commonality? They were all COPYWRITERS.
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