Inspiration: Other Self-Publishing Authors You May Have Heard Of

If you listen to the conventional wisdom, you would believe that no real author self-publishes; that all self-published books are doomed to obscurity. Following is a list of authors who did it anyway:

• Ernest Hemmingway - Paid for his first novel to be printed
• L. Ron Hubbard - Self-published Dianetics
• James Joyce - Self-published Ulysses
• Stephen King - Self published "The Plant" on his website in 2000
• Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad, Poor Dad
• Scott Adams - Creator of Dilbert
• Louis L'Amour - Smoke from This Alter
• Herman Melville - Author of Moby Dick self-published several books of poetry
• Richard Nixon - President of the United States, Self-published Real Peace
• Thomas Paine - Self-published "Common Sense" to recruit soldiers for the American Revolution
• Edgar Allen Poe - Author of "The Raven", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher"
• Arthur Agatston - The South Beach Diet
• Julie Clark - The Baby Einstein Company
• John Audubon - The Birds of America
• John Bartlett - Familiar Quotations
• L. Frank Baum - Author of the Wizard of Oz
• Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson - Co-authors of The One-Minute Manager
• Marshall Brain - How Stuff Works
• Amanda Brown - Legally Blonde
• Edgar Rice Burroughs - Creator of Tarzan
• E.E. Cummings - No Thanks
• William E.B. DuBois - Founder of the NAACP
• Alexandre Dumas - Author of The Three Musketeers
• Arlene Eisenberg - What to Do When You're Expecting
• T.S. Eliot - Nobel Prize Winning Poet
• Howard Fast - Spartacus
• Edward Fitzgerald - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Benjamin Franklin - Poor Richard's Almanac, One of the Founders of the United States
• Galileo Galilei - The Starry Messenger
• Zane Grey - Author of over 60 Western Novels
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Author of The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter
• Hugh Hefner - Self-published the first edition of Playboy
• Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Irma Rombauer - The Joy of Cooking
• Henry David Thoreau - Self-published Walden
• Mark Twain - Self-published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Noah Webster - Author of the First American Dictionary
• Walt Whitman - Self-published "Leaves of Grass"
• Virginia Woolf - Author of Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando
• Tim and Nina Zagat - Self-published the Zagat Survey
• Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen – Authors of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" and sold over 108,000,000 copies

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