How People Get Rich Now

Re:How People Get Rich Now by mattzito on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:25PM (#26782277)

It's impossible to know for certain, of course, but it seems highly unlikely that any of those writers will be quoted beyond the lifespan of contemporary readers (except potentially in scholarly books about rationalism/startups/etc). How many authors from the 1940s are still widely read, especially for essays/non-fiction?

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by InitialLastName on Monday April 12, 2021 @02:16PM (#26783007)

Excepting the WWII memoirs (because I'm not sure how I want to count either Anne Frank, Elie Weisel or Winston Churchill in terms of "authors from the 1940s"), among authors whose nonfiction works are still read, there are a few names that do occur to me:

George Orwell, Friedrich Hayek, Simone de Beauvoir, John Maynard Keynes, Jean-Paul Sartre

For fiction there are obviously many more whose works have come through to frequent readership: Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Albert Camus, C.S. Lewis, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Ayn Rand to name a few.

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by wanderer2323 on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:41PM (#26786085)

Lewis would be my example for nonfiction. Narnia is fun and all, but it's stuff like "The Inner Ring" (https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/) where he really shines.

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by InitialLastName on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:25AM (#26806734)

I agree (Planet Narnia also blew my mind), but I tried to make a judgement call over whether his non-fiction was "widely read" (I know very few people who have read any of it, relative to the number who have read the Narnia books).

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by three14 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:20AM (#26788371)

Normally I wouldn't comment just to say the equivalent of +1, but I hadn't encountered "The Inner Ring" before, and it's great! Thanks for the recommendation.

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