Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Writers:

In order of photos from top left:

Mark Twain taking his billiards game very, very seriously.

John Bryson’s 1959 pic of Ernest Hemingway high kicking a beer can.

Vladimir Nabokov hunting down butterflies in Ithaca, New York in 1958.

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo writing in the bath.

Edward Gorey and his gigantic teddy bear.