| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Genre | fiction, non-fiction, advertising, and business writing |
| Founded | 1961 |
| Founder | Bennett Cerf, Gordon Carroll, and Albert Dorne |
| Fate | bankruptcy (1972) |
| Headquarters | Westport, Connecticut |
Key people | Faith Baldwin, John Caples, Bruce Catton, Bennett Cerf, Mignon G. Eberhart, Paul Engle, Bergen Evans, Clifton Fadiman, Rudolf Flesch, Phyllis McGinley, J. D. Ratcliff, Rod Serling, Max Shulman, Red Smith, Mark Wiseman |
The Famous Writers School was an educational institution that ran a correspondence course for writers in the 1960s and 1970s. Founded in 1961 by Bennett Cerf, Gordon Carroll, and Albert Dorne, it became the subject of a scandal after a 1970 exposé by Jessica Mitford, who noted the school's questionable academic and business practices.