Here is a random list of contemporary best selling and most acclaimed American writers and where they went to college. See if you can detect the pattern:
Margaret Atwood - Harvard
Michael Chabon - Pitt
Don DeLillo - Fordham University
Robert Dylan - Greenwich Village University
Jennifer Egan - Penn
Brian Evenson - Brigham Young University
Jonathan Safran Foer - Princeton
Jonathan Franzer - Swarthmore
John Irving - University of New Hampshire
Stephen King - University of Maine
Rachel Kushner - UC Berkeley
Juhmper Lahiri - Barnard
James Patterson - Manhattan University
Thomas Pynchon - Cornell
Nora Robert’s - School of Hard Knocks
George Saunders - Colorado School of Mines
Danielle Steel - NYU
R.L. Stine - Ohio State
Anne Tyler - Duke
Ocean Vuong - Brooklyn College
Alice Walker - Sarah Lawrence
Colson Whitehead - Harvard
Diane Williams - Penn
Karen Tei Yanashita - Carleton