20 Never-Before-Seen Vintage Photos Of Iconic Writers
Rare photographs of legendary authors.
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It’s hard to imagine the full extent of someone’s life when we are only privy to small bits of information regarding people, even if it’s someone extremely famous. So when it comes to classic authors, one can imagine that there must be quite a bit we are not aware of beyond their famous writings that give insight into the inner workings of such illustrious minds.
Recently, a thread on X gained popularity for sharing a rare collection of vintage photos of these popular authors that most people have never seen before. Scroll below to check out this selection of retro images that give a rather unique insight into the lives of legendary authors that we are all otherwise quite familiar with.
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Lilybdcsa: He looks like one of his hobbits!
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LizzieBoredom: The cat thought his name was Mark Twine.
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Rebecca Ferguson: Reaching in his coat for his anti-depressants...
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CocoHenri: Kinda understand the moustache now. Poe was amazingly prolific for someone with chronic depression
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Beak Hookage: The biopic sucked but casting Stephen Fry was absolutely perfect. The resemblance is bang on.
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Pyla: The only COLORIZED photo of Leo Tolstoy.
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Michael None: The bottle checks out. He was an absolute drunk.
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Beak Hookage: He's totally thinking about his mother right now.
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#1 J.R.R Tolkien In His Study With His Own Hand-Drawn Map Of Middle Earth
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Lilybdcsa: He looks like one of his hobbits!
#2 A Daguerreotype Of A Young Frederick Douglass
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#3 C. S. Lewis With A Pipe
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#4 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois At Age 4
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#5 Mark Twain With A Cat
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LizzieBoredom: The cat thought his name was Mark Twine.
#6 Rare Portrait Of Virginia Woolf
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#7 The The First Known Picture Of Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rebecca Ferguson: Reaching in his coat for his anti-depressants...
#8 Rare Picture Of John Steinbeck
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#9 Portrait Of Edgar Allan Poe, Believed To Be The Earliest Known Photograph Of Him
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CocoHenri: Kinda understand the moustache now. Poe was amazingly prolific for someone with chronic depression
#10 Rare Daguerreotype Of Charles Dickens
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#11 46-Year-Old Charles Darwin
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#12 Last Photo Of Fyodor Dostoevsky While Alive
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#13 Oscar Wilde Attending A Garden Party
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Beak Hookage: The biopic sucked but casting Stephen Fry was absolutely perfect. The resemblance is bang on.
#14 Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The Day Of His Liberation After 8 Years In The Gulag
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#15 The Only Color Picture Of Leo Tolstoy
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Pyla: The only COLORIZED photo of Leo Tolstoy.
#16 Jorge Luis Borges Poses With Bread Basket On His Head
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#17 Franz Kafka With His Dog
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#18 Ernest Hemingway With His Chauffeur Adamo Simon
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Michael None: The bottle checks out. He was an absolute drunk.
#19 Portrait Of A Young Sigmund Freud
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Beak Hookage: He's totally thinking about his mother right now.
#20 A Rare Portrait Of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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