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What /lit/ authors had armed/military careers? Any military related service counts.

Off the top of my head
>Socrates
>Tolstoy
>Dostoevsky
>Camus
>Hemingway
>Orwell

>> No.13299702

me desu i've killed tons of small birds and squirrels with my pellet gun

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>>13299698
this absolute legend

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>>13299698
robert graves

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>>13299698
hemmingway doesn't count himself, so I wouldn't put him in there. He was a nurse. Stephen crane, and pic rel.

>> No.13299769

Tolkien

>> No.13300353

>>13299698
Salinger

>> No.13300987

>>13299762
He was an ambulance driver
>>13299698
Orwell,Dostoyevsky and Camus are all POGs

>> No.13300990

>Socrates
>author
What do you mean, OP?
Anyways Céline
Gadda
I’d say Ariosto but dunno if military governor of a province of a 16th century duchy counts as military career
Alexander Lernet-Holenia

>> No.13300991

>>13299762
>Any military related service counts.

>> No.13300999

>>13300990
Also Dante did some fighting as a light trooper when he was young

>> No.13301000

Cervantes
Edmund Spenser

>> No.13301002

Beckett

>> No.13301029

>>13299698
Wittgenstein was in the austro-hungarian army in WW1 in a unit that was involved heavily in combat

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Edgar Rice Burroughs served in the army when they still trained with swords and he used that sword training to help write his fight scenes in his novels which is pretty based compared to damn near every other fantasy and sci-fi writer who never had such training.

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>> No.13301246

Cocteau

>> No.13301248

>>13299698
Drop hemingway from that list. He was a volunteer medic who got injured. Not even in battle, in a hotel room.

>> No.13301256

>>13299698
Norman Mailer
Robert Heinlein
L Ron Hubbard. Read up on his, it's a dumpster fire.

>> No.13301262

>>13301248
Yeah but he also lead a bunch of french resistance fighters and landed on D-Day

>> No.13301266

>>13301248
>Any military related service counts.
Queen Elizabeth even fits this

>> No.13301267

>>13301000
>>13300999
Based tripfags
A professor of mine always told the story of Cervantes being suspected of bailing himself out of slavery by giving his butthole to the Bey of Alexandria, a notorious homosexual. Thus, when he returned home, he was denied a military pension and became his wife and daughter’s ruffian to make ends meet
I just hope this is some sort of exaggeration

>> No.13301508

>>13301262
>>13301248
Robert Capa claimed Hemingway's crowd were the first Americans to reenter Paris after its liberation, drunk and armed.