I saw this in the latest issue of Writer’s Digest in an article by Alex Palmer, the author of Literary Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature. Many of those famous authors whose words are immortalized in literary classics did all sorts of odd jobs while they were perfecting their writing craft.
For example, meet …
Kurt Vonnegut, manager of America’s first Saab dealership
John Steinbeck, painter, fruit picker, estate caretaker and Madison Square Garden construction worker
Stephen King, high school janitor
Harper Lee, reservation clerk for Eastern Air Lines
J.D. Salinger, entertainment director on a Swedish luxury ocean liner
Neil Sagebiel 