More Fun with the LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
Type in writer and you pull up a slew of photos of famous (and not-so-famous) writers doing stereotypically writerly things, like smoking or looking intense while pretending to type. Sorry, no photos of Faulkner lying in his own puke or Hemingway with a shotgun to his head. The occasional typewriters are pretty cool though. Is that a Clark Nova or a Martinelli Burroughs has there?
Dashiell Hammett smoking like a writer.
Writer Dorothy Parker in a big writer hat.
Robert ("Hoppy") Hopkins gaining writerly inspiration in a kooky spot only a writer would choose.
Writer/Director Preston Sturges could have kicked your ass... while making you laugh like you've never laughed before!
Mystery writer Rex Stout mysteriously freaks out some woman's shit like a freaky writer dude.
Writer Thomas Mann seen mere seconds before realizing a photographer has entered his home and taken his picture while reading (another?) writer's book. "Ach! I did not see YOU there!" said Mann.
"Und now I vill smoke, ja?" says Mann.
Damon Runyon goofs off when he should be writing. Is he smoking? We cannot tell.
"Please do not bother me! I am writing and thinking of smoking!" says writer Damon Runyon.
"I am done writing now," says Damon Runyon. "Time for a smoke beside my typewriter, where I write."
"Oh, please excuse me! I was just writing and smoking!" says Beat writer and smoker William S. Burroughs. "Thank God you didn't walk in on me an hour ago when my boy Kiki was here with the smack."
All About Eve writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz prepares to smoke and think about the writing he should be doing.
Jack London, seen here neither smoking nor writing but instead wearing a hat that could give Dorothy Parker's a run for its money.
"British spy-thriller writer David Cornwell." Seen here smoking, or smoquing as they say in England, like a British writer smoques.
In conclusion, this photo of screenwriter Gene Fowler is awesome.
Dashiell Hammett smoking like a writer.
Writer Dorothy Parker in a big writer hat.
Robert ("Hoppy") Hopkins gaining writerly inspiration in a kooky spot only a writer would choose.
Writer/Director Preston Sturges could have kicked your ass... while making you laugh like you've never laughed before!
Mystery writer Rex Stout mysteriously freaks out some woman's shit like a freaky writer dude.
Writer Thomas Mann seen mere seconds before realizing a photographer has entered his home and taken his picture while reading (another?) writer's book. "Ach! I did not see YOU there!" said Mann.
"Und now I vill smoke, ja?" says Mann.
Damon Runyon goofs off when he should be writing. Is he smoking? We cannot tell.
"Please do not bother me! I am writing and thinking of smoking!" says writer Damon Runyon.
"I am done writing now," says Damon Runyon. "Time for a smoke beside my typewriter, where I write."
"Oh, please excuse me! I was just writing and smoking!" says Beat writer and smoker William S. Burroughs. "Thank God you didn't walk in on me an hour ago when my boy Kiki was here with the smack."
All About Eve writer Joseph L. Mankiewicz prepares to smoke and think about the writing he should be doing.
Jack London, seen here neither smoking nor writing but instead wearing a hat that could give Dorothy Parker's a run for its money.
"British spy-thriller writer David Cornwell." Seen here smoking, or smoquing as they say in England, like a British writer smoques.
In conclusion, this photo of screenwriter Gene Fowler is awesome.