Authors who offended others thru their fiction:

[Erik]

What about a spin off to Amber's thread listing books that have offended others? Maybe it can help to see that it is a fairly common thing. I'll start:

In Woody Guthrie's "Bound For Glory" he describes an incident from his childhood where a sadistic cousin brutally kills a litter of kittens. The cousin was offended and actually sued Woody for libel!

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I think Hemingway offended 90% of hiss friends with his thinly veiled portrayals of them in The Sun Also Rises.
there's an interesting book by Louise Desalvo called Conceived With Malice.
from the back cover blurb: "some major works of literature were created out of their authors' need for revenge..."
http://www.amazon.com/Conceived-Malice-Literature-Revenge-Lawrence/dp/0452273234/ref=sr_1_1/102-4851099-4259312?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176204933&sr=8-1

 

[pig ear press]

Here's a short piece on the subject

http://www.snarkout.org/archives/2003/04/22/

interesting....mildly :rolleyes:

 

[chronic]

Mark Twain offended the French.

 

[mjp]

...and Hunter Thompson offended just about everyone.

 

[Olaf]

Oscar Wilde offended and distrubed the British Establishment with his Queerdom Stories.