Classic Autobiographical and Fictional Accounts of American Academic Life
George Templeton Strong, Diary, 1835-1839, Vol. 1
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
George Santayana,
Henry Seidel Canby, Alma Mater: The Gothic Age of the American College
Owen Johnson, Stover at Yale (1912)
George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States (1937)
Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America
Randall Jarrell, Pictures at an Institution
Bernard Malamud, A New Life (1961)
David Lodge, Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975)
David Lodge, Small World (1985)
Jane Smiley, Moo (1995)
English Variations
C. P. Snow, The Masters (1951)
Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)
Worth adding: A Bachelor of Arts, by John Erskine, the man behind Lit Hum.