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Camden College, a fictional New England liberal arts college, is frequently referenced. It is based on Bennington College , which Ellis attended, and where he met future novelist Jonathan Lethem and befriended fellow writers Donna Tartt and Jill Eisenstadt .
Camden College, the fictional New England liberal arts college that is a setting in many of Ellis’s novels, is based on Bennington College. While a student, Ellis became friends with the writers Jonathan Lethem, Donna Tartt, and Jill Eisenstadt, who also attended the College.
The eye of the Ellisverse is fictional Camden College, based on Bennington College, which Ellis attended. Many of the characters in Ellis’ books went to Camden, a college that seems to specialize in drug abuse, sexual shenanigans, and emotional breakdowns rather than any sort of useful major.
In the novels of Bret Easton Ellis and several other Brat Pack and Generation X authors, Camden College is a liberal arts college in New Hampshire. It is based on the real Bennington College, where Ellis and several of his author friends did their undergraduate degrees.
Camden College, a fictionalized version of Bennington, appears in the works of Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and Jonathan Lethem. [70] [71] Whereas Ellis's Camden College is located in New Hampshire, Lethem's Camden is in Vermont, and is notable for being the most expensive college in the United States. All three of the writers attended ...
The story is set at Camden College, a fictional liberal arts college in northeastern New Hampshire that is based on Ellis' alma mater, Bennington College. The novel's "Dress To Get Screwed" parties are based on Bennington's infamous real-life "Dress To Get Laid" parties, held every semester, or, later, only in the fall, since the 1970s at least.
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Bennington graduate Donna Tartt uses the same Bennington-inspired backdrop for her 1992 novel The Secret History, but for her it is Hampden College. However, Eisenstadt and Lethem uses 'Camden' in From Rockaway (1987) and The Fortress of Solitude (2003), respectively.
