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Agatha Christie on Waikiki beach, Hawaii, 1922.

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1877:

Oscar Wilde in Greek National Costume

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S.E. Hinton’s cameo in The Outsiders.

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If you have read all of Maya’s books, by now you know before she became a great poet and writer she was an accomplished singer and dancer.

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Anne Rice at a book signing for Memnoch the Devil in 1995.

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In Vogue‘s recent Edith Wharton spread, we have: Junot Díaz as diplomat Walter Berry, Jonathan Safran Foer as architect Ogden Codman, Jr., and, most excellently, Jeffrey Eugenides as Henry James. 

 In case you need some help: Eugenides is standing behind the lady in white, Diaz is seated right next to him, and Foer is standing on the far right wearing period appropriate specs.

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Truman Capote as a youthful Santa Claus, or perhaps some kind of holiday spirit.

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Virginia Woolf (far left) and her friends dressed up as Abyssinian royalty for the famous Dreadnought hoax.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The photos were taken in 1916 to help promote The Evil Eye at Princeton’s Triangle Club.

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1890:

Mark Twain and his daughter Susy as Hero and Leander