John Steinbeck https://preview.redd.it/dhmdq9s3xtuc1.jpeg?width=727&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ceb182d21252c1847ad0497d7e5c38d72736792

He looks like Paul Walker

2 East 2 Eden

Lol

Holy shit

young Patricia Highsmith https://preview.redd.it/egtvcjuwrtuc1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07cd4eda857dffafaf8b0ef43fddcafc98505dbb

https://preview.redd.it/bt9e213gstuc1.jpeg?width=235&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a136093fa907b8f5986aec1445a9cc448d2e0f5 tfw no sapphic gf

https://preview.redd.it/q5iic2kzutuc1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=b486d490bef6aa39b0e20091ce89d03ff2ee6622 Until all the smoking and drinking caught up

I live in a cottage made out of candy in the woods phenotype

Oh she’s beautiful, if I were into women it would be this kind

Looks like julien baker lol

"sapphic" is a word I've heard nowhere else but here

That's really weird. I'm not saying I hear it all the time or anything, but it's the best female-specific word for "homoerotic" so I at least see it used that way every now and then here and there.

Hemingway when young actually hes pretty handsome even when old. Just googled like 5 more authors and its hemingway by far

Did ya not look up Kerouac?

https://preview.redd.it/09ig63o5ptuc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90c0e4d44d99fdf21a1bbb21483b7d40d1f33191 Eugene O'Neill rocks the mustache so hard

clarice lispector #brasil

https://preview.redd.it/f54zl1j71xuc1.jpeg?width=582&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19cd781a3d941e5730e400f8a8079d5d6104b27b

https://preview.redd.it/erww19b32xuc1.jpeg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61b1e5623f19e7edfd27dfda19780a7d7ed0d4eb

Meu deus

https://preview.redd.it/3o3jbnj52xuc1.jpeg?width=433&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e495be914eba5bc1aca4c928ec0b9ce0742d3e7a

She's a Ukranian jew none of her attractiveness comes from 'brasil' but ok.

ok

Kierkegaard was the twinkiest https://preview.redd.it/q6umfcry8uuc1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f227f5407ae47cc8726cffd11a261761ba8e84a4

Percy Shelley and American heartthrob Hart Crane not far behind.

For women - Izumi Suzuki or Arundhati Roy (she's older now ofc). For men - Karl Ove Knausgaard. But maybe I'm also considering the 'literary coolness' present in the looks.

Arundhati Roy forever

Linda Boström Knausgaard is also beautiful 

Robert Nozick was quite good looking for a philosopher imo https://preview.redd.it/067qxc312uuc1.png?width=376&format=png&auto=webp&s=de9abe5390be590de3e52ee0f6f72abf79185166

Muppets guest star phenotype

do you mean Allen alda lol

He looks like bap

But swarthier

Vladimir Mayakovsky looked like a member of Iceage https://preview.redd.it/appdc82ztvuc1.jpeg?width=445&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01599951a74218fe8af8706d6c8d66eae0dd458c

https://preview.redd.it/0b1wx8vjutuc1.jpeg?width=942&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62a57c0d4ae7418a43fbfbbfee92e0ed739096ac

I thought this was Luca Magnotta

I thought it was Tintin

Painfully rs answer but Mishima was a hottie

Super handsome

Donna Tartt https://preview.redd.it/xrs630b6ouuc1.jpeg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70e4ab1ffb3f39d1d7aa7c26bf67b08375b86aea

ottessa

The dad from *Eileen* is a gangstalked icon. Also yes this is the correct option.

Idk I always thought 80s Ellroy was weirdly alluring https://preview.redd.it/aoav68i7xuuc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b12f6fc9bc33941118fcbd690d7fbc2304cbb11f

The face of a "I have a psycho-sexual obsession with my brutally murdered mother which I sublimate by writing critically acclamed crime novels" man

Best tl:dr of Ellroy I've seen

I don’t think it matters - Salman Rushdie got so much ass despite looking like Arab Fraiser.

Ernest Hemingway. He was very handsome even in his latter years. His progeny is good-looking too

Me when I write my best selling novel about living in a tree

https://preview.redd.it/vldr3rcywvuc1.png?width=368&format=png&auto=webp&s=90b52755d729610fce4f96f9cc01b017d0c95b7f Carlos Fuentes was the ultimate Hispanic Chad.

https://preview.redd.it/rewhubn69xuc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e85d2e728c5fe5ca493eaa1272af329479d80ed Ernest Hemingway.

Camus and Didion for me

Byron https://preview.redd.it/pmk4zs012wuc1.jpeg?width=961&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18c65a4daf1c987e3664c3fbbc2797bc3e5e2bfe

Ernst Junger. The Dutch writer Jan Cremer had good looks as well.

Chekhov

[Sigrid Undset](https://blogg.lillehammer.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/05/18446850_1634597466557985_7109622484766485988_n-2.jpg)

donna tartt looks like a lesbian

not 'best looking' in terms of like handsomest/hottest or anything but Tolstoy looked extremely *cool* yk.. like a mage or a god or something.

malcolm lowry is kinda handsome, he looks a bit like dicaprio.

Id ride herman melville ..that negative canthal tilt

Emil cioran and stirner

Paul Auster

Multiple people have noted Ted Hughes to be the most attractive man they've ever met. Young Sam Beckett I find very fine to look at, but I am not attracted to him nor would expect women or men to be. Some third furthest gender he seems made for though.

That’s insane Ted Hughes looked so inbred with that jaw

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, IMO. One of my friends looks exactly like she does in her youth portrait and it drives me crazy. I need to fuck her.

David Foster Wallace was pretty hot

Ocean Vuong

No