I came across this photo of Dorothy Parker the other day and thought, “wow, she was quite a doll.”
http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/art/parker.jpg
I was hard-pressed to think of other really attractive famous women writers. Anybody care to nominate a few?
(Partly inspired by the thread on aging attractive women. I recognize the sexist nature of this thread. Someone please feel free to start one about male writers.)
Eve Golden.
Four freakin’ minutes.
You gotta move fast, Ethilrist. The girl’s a hot commodity.
Or two. Two freakin’ minutes, mwah hah hah!!!
Okay, how about JK Rowling?
Say, she’s not bad.
And Eve Golden’s a given.
[blushes prettily]
Anais Nin
Hmmm. Four “hot” authors, three suicides. I hope Ms. Schulman is on antidepressants.
You know, I didn’t even realize that when I listed them. Just looked at my bookshelf and picked off three or four I found attractive.
I think I’m going to move my Sarah Schulman anthology a few rows down from her current neighbors. Just to be on the safe side.
Virginia Woolfe
Emily Dickenson
Then again, I think Meg Griffin from Family Guy and Velma from Scooby Doo are hot
Evelyn Lau and Ann Marie MacDonald are pretty.
Last year, Japan’s most prestigious litterary prize was split between Risa Wataya and Hitomi Kanehara. Here’s the two of them together.
Going back a little bit, there’s the new face of the 5000 yen bill, Ichiyou Higuchi.
Poet Akiko Yosano wasn’t bad looking either.
Also, from France:
Colette.
Georges Sand.
Marguerite Duras.
Anglo-Canadian-by-birth-but-writes-in-French novellist Nancy Huston.
I was going to mention her. She looked better than the linked picture (which must have been taken after her heavy drinking caught up with her) suggests.
If you like 'em on the…erm…edge, Elizabeth Wurtzel.
I have a thing for Jhumpa Lahiri but her books made me very, very sad.
Not to hihack this into a comics hread, but…
Cartoonist Wendy Pini, back in the 70s, used to pose (rather convincingly) in Red Sonja costumes at comics conventions. I met her in '89 and she was still quite the hot tomato.
Naomi Wolf
Hey, I just remembered: Wendy Pini wrote a prose novel, so she can be included.
