Lately some literary critics have been condemning my stories as being "elitist" and concerned only with superior people--instead of the little people, the common people, the born losers. Those critics are correct: the sort of hero I like to write about is a boy from a broken home and a poverty stricken background who pulls himself up by his bootstraps...
Robert A. Heinlein
Personal communication to a reader, letter of 15 June 1981