 The school was founded by Bennett Cerf, a Random House editor and well-known television personality, Gordon Carroll, an occasional editor for "Reader's Digest", and Albert Dorne, an illustrator whose school, the Famous Artists School, owned Famous Writers.It began operations in 1961, based in Westport, Connecticut.The ubiquitous advertising copy for the school, which was often found in the back of magazines, listed the following writers (who were also stockholders) as the school's "Guiding Faculty"