There are a number of photos of William Faulkner in swim trunks.

Anne Sexton needed a sandwich.

all too perfect.

WSB (in the suit) = a good laugh for the morning. Thx.

Hemingway and Williams, not so appealing.

Would have loved to see great writers who were healthy, versus: Suicides (Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Hunter S. Thompson); death by alcohol and/or drugs (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Jack Kerouac; and mental illness (most, including Zelda Fitzgerald who dies in a mental institution fire).

hey that’s the one and only Jane Bowles standing in the centre. read Two Serious Ladies now!

Hemingway should have gotten a better P.R. person. Sexton, what’s to say? Beautiful face, needed to put on some weight.

Numbers 1, 2, 3, 5,and 9 also committed suicide. Another danger of too much sun?

Nice boobs, Ernie!

Debra,

I mean they’d all have to be drunk, on drugs or mentally ill to wear those outfits in public. Am I right people?

Let’s not forget Jane Bowles in the Truman Capote shot.

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Ah, there’s nothing like a day at the beach.

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Ms. Plath, has something quite nice following her.

There are also some nudies of Tennessee.
meh!

@ Debra Di Blasi: These are *writers* we’re talking about. Depressing endings were kinda the thing to do for a writer back then.

What a terrible picture of Hemingway! He was really hot during his Paris years.,,

Loved seeing the pics of Plath and Woolf laughing for once. Also, well done for including so many female writers, was expecting the usual – all male list.

It takes an eccentric mind to weave such legendary pieces of writing and suicide, mental illnesses, and untimely deaths are all unfortunately an occupational hazard. They lived as passionately as they wrote and it’s awesome to see them frozen in time in these photos and trying to imagine what they were thinking and who took the picture. It takes tragedy and hardship to come up with epic literature. Great art comes from great pain.

Ann Sexton was a babe. Sylvia Plath looks truly happy. And Jack Kerouac was a stud. Amazing set of photos.

hey where’s Vanessa Feltz?

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I would love to see this in calendar form. :)

Thanks, Jennifer! Love the one of Eugene O’Neill–his wife, what a beauty!!

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Hey, folks, I’m a writer & publisher, too, who’s lived a very wild life. Thankfully, I’m still here — though some of my comrades are not: including David Foster Wallace who hung himself just a few years ago. Just wish there’d been a mix, lest my authors, students or I feel the obligation to maintain the stereotype in my near or distant future. (No gas ovens, though, and no guns or ropes.) Zadie Smith in a bikini? Thomas Pynchon in a speedo? Yes, please!

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Wow, Kerouac was a hottie when he actually SMILED!

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Hunter S. Thompson looked pretty damned hot! He’s so sexy in that pic.

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