Camden College is a fictional liberal arts college which appears in the works of Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and in Jonathan Lethem's book The Fortress of Solitude. Whereas Ellis' Camden College is located in New Hampshire, Lethem's Camden is in Vermont, and is notable for being the most expensive college in America. Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. ... Jill Eisenstadt (born June 15, 1963) is an American novelist and freelance journalist. ... Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American writer. ... The Fortress of Solitude is a 2003 Jonathan Lethem novel set in Brooklyn, spanning the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. ...

All three of the writers attended Bennington College, which is really located in Vermont, and was at one time notorious for being the most expensive college in America. In Bret Easton Ellis's book, The Rules of Attraction, he refers to certain names of houses: Booth, Wooley, Sawtell, to name a few. These are all names of houses at Bennington College. Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont. ... The Rules of Attraction is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987 and made into a film by the same name in 2002. ...