From Huck Finn To Holden Caulfield: Top 10 Outsiders' Stories

guardian.co.uk:

Stephen Kelman was born in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel, and has been shortlisted for the 2011 Desmond Elliott prize.

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Comments

[thebigbike]

10:25 PM on 05/25/2011

for the number 1 selection SURELY you meant "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" ?? and holden caulfield was just a spoiled rich kid brat with pretensions

[Bruce Forbes]

04:08 PM on 05/25/2011

the protagonist in Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" is quite an outsider.