# Hot women writers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464 "2004-12-07T01:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/21 "2004-12-07T06:54:21Z")
Anne Sexton was a model, even! While I hate her books and wish she wouldn’t be so pouty, I think [Zadie Smith](http://www.greetsomeone.com/mag/june/buttons/zadie.jpg) is a cutie-pie. Also, I think [Carson McCullers](http://www.english.upenn.edu/~sharzews/McCullers.jpg) was adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/22 "2004-12-07T09:13:31Z")
[Angela Carter](http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/carter.jpg) I have to agree with **Freejooky**. That photo of Carson McCullers has haunted me for years. [This one](http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/art_101090015261_1.jpg), too. I don’t know that I noticed how freaking beautful she was until after she’d had ample opportunity to seduce me, though. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/23 "2004-12-07T12:28:07Z")
[Kathleen Winsor](http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/islands/images/windsor2.jpg) was as pretty as her famous heroine. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/24 "2004-12-07T12:51:21Z")
Not extremely famous but if I were gay or male I’d get terrifically hung up on [Poppy Z. Brite](http://poppyzbrite.com/). ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/25 "2004-12-07T13:35:08Z")
[Edna O’Brien](http://www.nd.edu/~isla/ISLA/webpages/thearts/keough/obrien/eob2.jpg). I went to a reading she gave at Joe’s Pub in NYC a few years ago. What a good-looking woman! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/26 "2004-12-07T13:40:47Z")
Margaret Mitchell. Jacqueline Susann. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/27 "2004-12-07T13:51:22Z")
The poet Elizabeth Spires is a notorious looker. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/28 "2004-12-07T14:01:43Z")
Allow me to present the mother/daughter team who write under the name [P. J. Tracy](http://www.startribune.com/images/embed/4943605_88725.html). They wrote _Monkeewrench_ (good book) and _Live Bait_ (haven’t read). Yowza! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/29 "2004-12-07T15:08:10Z")
[Kathryn Harrison](http://img.slate.msn.com/media/38000/38375/Harrison.JPG) is classically beautiful, and a respected writer, but kinda screwed up: She had an incestuous affair - as an _adult_ - with her father, then wrote about it in her book The Kiss (haven’t read it, don’t really want to…) ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/30 "2004-12-07T15:11:04Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > Last year, Japan’s most prestigious litterary prize was split between Risa Wataya and Hitomi Kanehara. [Here’s the two of them together.](http://www.asahi.com/top/update/photonews/0115/photo_p/TKY200401150343.jpg) I believe you accidentally linked to a pic of Puffi Amiyumi, **jovan**. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/31 "2004-12-07T15:28:10Z")
I find Dahlia Lithwick, the Supreme Court commentator for Slate, to be quite the cutie. But I’m probably biased because I love her writing. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/32 "2004-12-07T15:45:32Z")
I am currently reading [Empress Orchid](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618068872/103-4646614-5118268?v=glance) by [Anchee Min](http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/assets/contributor/min%24anchee.gif). She was a movie star in China, handpicked by Mme Mao to star in propaganda films. Min’s book about growing up in Maoist China, [Red Azelea](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425147762/qid=1102434254/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-4646614-5118268?v=glance&s=books) is excellent. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/33 "2004-12-07T15:56:29Z")
Well, Paulina Porizkova once wrote a children’s book. And of course, there’s Lisa Whelchel. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/34 "2004-12-07T16:00:08Z")
Gloria Steinem was quite attractive (an undercover Playboy bunny even) back in the day ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/35 "2004-12-07T16:08:31Z")
[Arundhati Roi](http://elguanche.net/arundhati.jpg) is simply beautiful. Brit-chick-lit author Lisa Jewell is [kindafunnylookin but not bad](http://lisajewell.com/Lphoto.jpg). The lovely [Joanna Lumley](http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/sheep-lumley.jpg) (GMILF) has written two autobiographical books, so she counts. Then there’s the “[author](http://www.ciram.unibo.it/~colombo/alfieri/immagini/naomi.gif)” of the “novel” ‘Swan’. :rolleyes: who makes up for lack of literary talent in other ways… And another vote for JK Rowling. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/36 "2004-12-07T16:16:03Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > [Arundhati Roi](http://elguanche.net/arundhati.jpg) is simply beautiful. Roi even made People’s _50 Most Beutiful_ list one year (1999? 2000?), for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/37 "2004-12-07T20:35:13Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > in her book The Kiss (haven’t read it, don’t really want to…) [hijack] Amazing book. Disturbing, natch, but amazing. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/38 "2004-12-08T00:00:13Z")
When I read _The Secret History_, I thought that [Donna Tartt](http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8543/dmain.htm) was really hot. Now, she’s kind of got too much of the bohemian thing going on. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/39 "2004-12-08T01:22:03Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > I believe you accidentally linked to a pic of Puffi Amiyumi, **jovan**. > > –Cliffy Nope. That’s a pic from the Akutagawa Prize ceremony. Risa Wataya was 19 and Hitomi Kanehara 20. [Article here](http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200401/15/20040115p2a00m0dm014003c.html) with another pic of the two of them. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464/40 "2004-12-08T01:52:09Z")
Ayn Rand. But only if you’re into that sort of thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-women-writers/278464.md?page=3)