24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

When we hear the names of writers, we usually think of their work first and not of the people who wrote them. But it doesn’t change the fact that these authors existed and had full-blown lives that impacted their work. And so, sometimes it can be very interesting to think about who the people were deep down who wrote the famous books or other texts. 

Threads like this one shared on X let us catch at least a small glimpse into that. After all, seeing an uncommon photo of a writer can make a reader grasp their work in a light they might not have been able to before.

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#1 J.R.R Tolkien In His Study With His Own Hand-Drawn Map Of Middle Earth

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#2 Mark Twain With A Cat

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#3 Franz Kafka With His Dog

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#4 Portrait Of Edgar Allan Poe, Believed To Be The Earliest Known Photograph Of Him

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#5 A Daguerreotype Of A Young Frederick Douglass

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#6 Rare Portrait Of Virginia Woolf

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#7 Oscar Wilde Attending A Garden Party

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#8 Rare Daguerreotype Of Charles Dickens

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#9 Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The Day Of His Liberation After 8 Years In The Gulag

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#10 Ernest Hemingway With His Chauffeur Adamo Simon

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#11 C. S. Lewis With A Pipe

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#12 The Only Color Picture Of Leo Tolstoy

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#13 46-Year-Old Charles Darwin

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#14 The The First Known Picture Of Friedrich Nietzsche

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#15 Last Photo Of Fyodor Dostoevsky While Alive

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#16 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois At Age 4

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#17 A Rare Portrait Of F. Scott Fitzgerald

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#18 Portrait Of A Young Sigmund Freud

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#19 Rare Picture Of John Steinbeck

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#20 Jorge Luis Borges Poses With Bread Basket On His Head

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#21 Albert Camus Dancing

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#22 Portrait Of Karl Marx

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#23 Anna Julia Cooper Graduating

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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#24 Young Gilbert Keith Chesterton

24 Photographs Of Famous Authors That Most People Have Never Seen

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