She may be a tad high-maintenance, but I find Elizabeth Wurtzel quite fetching.
Also, Eleanor Herman is not only gorgeous, but shows up to her book signings in period costume.
Marisha Pessl author of last year’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics got a lot of press on her supposed hotness - but what’s funny is that when I Googled her just now, I came up with this website that has a page trying to show that she got lucky with her photos…
And now that I am linking to it above, it appears that the “not hot” photo is working…sigh…
This pic is closer to the “not hot” pic posted at the other site…you decide.
Olivia Judson author of Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to all Creation is the second best looking biologist I know.
I’m married to a biologist. 
Guy Gavriel Kay is rather cute, and in his younger days William Butler Yeats was pretty good-looking.
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll just be in this little puddle over here. Don’t mind me…
(Kenneth Oppel’s not a bad-looking bloke, either. And Jon Stewart’s helped write a few books…)
Po Bronson. Mm. Mmm. Mmmm.
Lisa Randall, physicist and author, is also a good-looking woman.
Clive has always been my absolute crush.
Jodi Piccoult is cute too.
China Mieville. Raaawrr!
And Tad Williams.
I get big crushes on authors while I’m reading their work. Peeking inside the writer’s mind feels very intimate, and besides, I find brains and imagination sexy. But so far I’m too squeemish to read Mieville.
Lots of writers wear glasses, and I love a man in glasses. And apparently smooth heads, although I didn’t realize that until just now. 
Tim Green!
The author of “Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail (Hardcover)” is quite cute.
Better known as Winnie from The Wonder Years.
Paulina Porizkova wrote a children’s book, way back when. I think she qualifies.
So does Lisa Whelchel.
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I came into this thread to say exactly that!
My friend and coworker Eugie Foster is quite attractive, even in real life! She’s about ten feet away from me as I’m posting this.
Also, I hate admitting this, because she’s frankly insane, but Michelle Malkin is really stunningly beautiful. I so wish the brain behind that face wasn’t nuts.
Kristin Gore, like her sister Karenna Gore Schiff and their mother Tipper, is very pretty.
You win.
Oh, and earlier I meant to include Carrie Fisher, who is both a terrific novelist and a great beauty.
