# Attractive authors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965 "2007-07-24T14:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/1 "2007-07-24T14:55:36Z")
I was thinking about this because I have started reading some of Neil Gaiman’s books due to pals I know from another forum. All the fangirls there are madly in love with him, it seems, and not just for his writing. They think he’s very attractive as well. Seeing a few pictures, I concur that he’s not at all bad, and there’s one picture on his website of him out in the snow–rowr! However, I cannot think of any other authors that I would consider attractive. Part of that is that I simply haven’t seen many pictures of authors to begin with, since I never really thought about this. The merit of their books is not important at the moment; I just want to know which authors, if any, people think are kind of hot. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/2 "2007-07-24T14:58:59Z")
[Barry Eisler](http://www.barryeisler.com/). He’s a very nice person, too. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/3 "2007-07-24T15:04:49Z")
I don’t feel like looking for the other Thread, but when we did this before I noted that I think [Rebecca Godfrey](http://www.bcachievement.com/nonfiction/2006/images/BCACNF2006_2_350.jpg) is quite a [cutie](http://www.ramirezpix.com/content/photos/Portraits016.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/4 "2007-07-24T15:07:18Z")
I can only think of men, mostly. Crichton is good looking, so is John Grisham. But you can’t miss[J.K. Rowling](http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/27/svROWLING_narrowweb__300x472,0.jpg) of late, as a friend of mine says, J. K.\* Rowr!\* You know, for a writer. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/5 "2007-07-24T15:10:45Z")
[QUOTE=bienville] I don’t feel like looking for the other Thread, but when we did this before I noted that I think [Rebecca Godfrey](http://www.bcachievement.com/nonfiction/2006/images/BCACNF2006_2_350.jpg) is quite a [cutie](http://www.ramirezpix.com/content/photos/Portraits016.jpg). [/QUOTE] Damn, I never have an original idea. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/6 "2007-07-24T15:20:00Z")
[QUOTE=stolichnaya] But you can’t miss[J.K. Rowling](http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/06/27/svROWLING_narrowweb__300x472,0.jpg) of late, as a friend of mine says, J. K.\* Rowr!\* [/QUOTE] I agree with your friend… I’d give a magic wand to _her_ Harry Potter, if you know what I mean. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/7 "2007-07-24T15:25:17Z")
I always thought that [John Grisham](http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/~cw3/images/johngrisham.jpg&imgrefurl=http://shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/~cw3/johngrisham.htm&h=1003&w=815&sz=177&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=qYogY8tfzSSMkM:&tbnh=149&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522John%2BGrisham%2522%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN) and [Michael Crichton](http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://wiredforbooks.org/images/MichaelCrichtonpage.jpg&imgrefurl=http://wiredforbooks.org/michaelcrichton/&h=240&w=178&sz=13&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=nRXUKEFuHKAX8M:&tbnh=110&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Michael%2BCrichton%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX) Were both fairly attractive - at least in those photos 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/8 "2007-07-24T15:36:51Z")
I have a bit of a crush on [Michael Shermer](http://www.skepticalmedia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/shermer.jpg). Although he isn’t a novelist. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/9 "2007-07-24T15:43:28Z")
I’ve always [this author was a looker](http://www.cleary.edu/news/images/ann_coulter_headshot.jpg). Too bad the voice box is connected, though. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/10 "2007-07-24T15:45:49Z")
How about [J V Jones](http://www.jvj.com/)? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/11 "2007-07-24T15:51:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] I’ve always [this author was a looker](http://www.cleary.edu/news/images/ann_coulter_headshot.jpg). Too bad the voice box is connected, though. [/QUOTE] Sorry, you lose. Outta my thread! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/12 "2007-07-24T16:08:00Z")
Perhaps he’s a bit old, but I think [Peter Matthiessen](http://faculty.mccfl.edu/Jonesj/LIT2090/pics/matthiessen.jpg) is quite dreamy, as well as being the coolest person ever, in my not-so-humble opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/13 "2007-07-24T16:09:01Z")
[Maureen Dowd](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/) is a definite babe. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/14 "2007-07-24T16:23:50Z")
I was under the impression that for non-established writers, looks mattered, in the sense that they were part of the marketing presentation for the book. Just as it’s sort of true that succesful pop musicians have to be good-looking, I think it’s also sort of true that authors have to be reasonably good looking. Maybe **Exapno Mapcase** can shed some light. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/15 "2007-07-24T16:35:05Z")
[Frank Portman.](http://www.drinkswithtony.com/drfrank/frank.jpg) (He’s the one without the metallic boobs.) I met him at a book signing at Book Expo–I’m only halfway through his book (King Dork), but I did think he was really cute. If it weren’t totally skeevey, I would so have hit on him. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/16 "2007-07-24T16:38:58Z")
I think that [Ian Rankin](http://www.wordfest.com/2005/images/2004PressKit/iRankin.jpg) is pretty hot. Kinda swarthy looking. I like swarthy. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/17 "2007-07-24T17:22:10Z")
A second for J.K. Rowling, and an shout-out for Poppy Z. Brite (do a Google Image search). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/18 "2007-07-24T17:27:24Z")
China Mieville is smoking, in a skinhead-socialist kinda way. Clive Barker too. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/19 "2007-07-24T17:36:38Z")
[QUOTE=Telperien] I was thinking about this because I have started reading some of Neil Gaiman’s books due to pals I know from another forum. All the fangirls there are madly in love with him, it seems, and not just for his writing. They think he’s very attractive as well. Seeing a few pictures, I concur that he’s not at all bad, and there’s one picture on his website of him out in the snow–rowr! [/QUOTE] I’ve met Gaiman in person. He is, in fact, a good-looking bloke, and positively dripping with charisma. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/20 "2007-07-24T17:43:00Z")
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