# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/61 "2007-07-25T20:08:14Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] an shout-out for Poppy Z. Brite (do a Google Image search). [/QUOTE] Yeah, but… she crazy. 😃 My vote is for Michael Ondaatje. Hott. [http://www2.davidson.edu/common/templates/news/news\_tmp00.asp?newsid=4631](http://www2.davidson.edu/common/templates/news/news_tmp00.asp?newsid=4631) ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/62 "2007-07-25T20:46:07Z")
My bookclub did a literary crushes series. Michael Chabon and Neil Gaiman and Salman Rushdie (Rushdie is mine, but the crush isn’t based on innate hotness - which is where Gaiman and Chabon were coming from - I believe). ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/63 "2007-07-25T22:43:21Z")
Harlan Ellison, in his mid-40s when this was taken around 1978 or '79, was quite dashing. Looks much the same now, though white-haired and 30 pounds heavier. [http://www.themodernword.com/borges/harlan.jpg](http://www.themodernword.com/borges/harlan.jpg) And I will verify, having seen their homepages, etc., that two of our resident authors, **CalMeacham** and **Reality Chuck** are attractive, distinguished men. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/64 "2007-07-25T23:40:04Z")
Harlan Ellison can never be physically attractive enough to overcome the first hand accounts of his assholishness. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/65 "2007-07-25T23:52:00Z")
[Ethan Canin](http://pages.slc.edu/~elago/articles/canin_photo.jpg) [Paul Auster](http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41029000/gif/_41029952_paul_auster_203.gif) [Sebastian Junger](http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/2002/bioimages/junger.jpg) (worth showing twice in this thread) ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/66 "2007-07-25T23:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=lisacurl] Harlan Ellison can never be physically attractive enough to overcome the first hand accounts of his assholishness. [/QUOTE] As of last August’s WorldCon, I can vouch for the disgusting display (or should I say decay) of His AssHoliness. Be careful of typing his name in vain. I understand he’ll sue you if you use his name without a trademark symbol. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/67 "2007-07-26T00:25:33Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Rhosis] And I will verify, having seen their homepages, etc., that two of our resident authors, **CalMeacham** and **Reality Chuck** are attractive, distinguished men. [/QUOTE] What!!! 😕 Are you sure you mean me? I’m the one [on the left](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/images/friends.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965/68 "2007-07-26T01:16:23Z")
^^^See, the thing is, Chuck, having read many Frank Herbert novels as a youngster, adorned with dustjacket photos, I came away convinced that all SF authors should be bearded (Ellison, aside). You and Cal Meacham fit the bill. But, ya know, you’re right, Larry Fine really is far more attractive than you. 😃 Sir Rhosis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attractive-authors/412965.md?page=3)