The Day Jobs of 10 Famous Writers | The New York Public Library

The Day Jobs of 10 Famous Writers | The New York Public Library: Any successful author will tell you that before they hit the literary bigtime, they had to do a whole lot of hustling to support their writing habit. On July 5, 1880, playwright George Bernard Shaw was able to quit his day job, but some of these authors continued to work at their 9-to-5's even after they were published.