Literary Figures and Their Wild Pets [courtesy of HUFF POST BOOKS]
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[Book Nerd Links] Literary Figures and Their Wild Pets
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Tag Archives: Dead Writers
[Alternative Muses] Writerly Style: George Bernard Shaw Demonstrates How to Wear a Suit
George Bernard Shaw wore suits almost as well as he wrote plays. Case in point:
George Bernard Shaw, 1909.
The hat is a nice touch.
George Bernard Shaw, 1914.
Hmm. This looks familiar.
George Bernard Shaw, 1946.
Jaunty at 90.
[Book Nerd News] Poet Seamus Heaney is Dead!
Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 74 [courtesy PEOPLE]
Seamus Heaney Dead: Irish Nobel-Winning Poet Dies in Dublin [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Writers in Art: Leo Tolstoy
Under a Lamp (Lev Tolstoy in the Family Circle) by Leonid Pasternak, 1902.
Under a Lamp by Leonid Pasternak, 1902
Voices from the Grave #76: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe Discuss Their Upcoming Nuptials
Great intellectual writers have personal lives, too.
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Bret Harte/Truman Capote Mashup
Bret Harte was born on 8/25/1836.
Bret Harte, 1862.
“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’/More sad are these we daily see: ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”-Bret Harte
Truman Capote died on 8/25/1984.
Truman Capote, 1959, by Roger Higgins.
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”-Truman Capote
[Book Nerd News] Elmore Leonard is Dead!
Elmore Leonard Dead: Famed American Novelist Dies At Age 87 [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 [courtesy THE NEW YORK TIMES]
Elmore Leonard dies at 87; master of the hard-boiled crime novel [courtesy LOS ANGELES TIMES]
Voices from the Grave #75: James Joyce in Paris, 1922
Brief stock footage clip of James Joyce in Paris, 1922. He doesn’t talk, but it is still fascinating!
Writers Writing: L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum, 1911.
L. Frank Baum writing, circa 1911
Hemingway Being Hemingway
Hemingway in Key West
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