Truman Capote and Gore Vidal, two renowned writers, chose not to pursue higher education and still achieved great success in their careers.
Maybe Capote and Vidal ’s mutual disdain stemmed from their many similarities. Both Capote and Vidal opted to skip college. Born in 1925, Vidal joined the military after graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy. Capote , meanwhile, took up a job as an assistant at The New Yorker when he was 17. The position, in Capote ’s opinion, was “not a very grand job,” but sufficed because he was “determined never to set a studious foot inside a college classroom,” he later wrote.
“I felt that either one was or wasn’t a writer, and no combination of professors could influence the outcome. I still think I was correct, at least in my own case.” Later in life, Vidal would become a major donor to Harvard University—though he never attended it—leaving his entire fortune to the university. Higher education or not, it soon became clear that both Capote and Vidal were writers. They quickly joined the literati, with Capote bursting onto the national literary scene with his novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and, of course, In Cold Bloo
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