Famous Historical Pipe Smokers

[Mortar0341]

Albert King

 

[Choatecav]

One of the best Blues guitar players in history. Stevie Ray Vaughn.
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Oh wow, I had no idea that SRV smoked a pipe. I was a huge fan of his and saw him in concert several times before he was killed.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

I don’t believe Steve McQueen to have smoked a pipe very often, but here he is.

 

[SBC]

Depicted here smoking a cigarette, T.S. Eliot was known also to smoke a pipe.



From "Little Gidding":

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning.

 

[WorthyStewart]

Depicted here smoking a cigarette, T.S. Eliot was known also to smoke a pipe.

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From "Little Gidding":

 

[SBC]

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Thank you!

 

[Zamora]

Depicted here smoking a cigarette, T.S. Eliot was known also to smoke a pipe.

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From "Little Gidding":

There's so many examples of people who smoked both

 

[WorthyStewart]

The Sage of Chelsea anyone?

 

[PaulRVA]

Norman Rockwell painting Ann Margret for the movie Stagecoach, 1965

 

[MisterBadger]

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), artist and writer, best known as author and illustrator of the 'Gormenghast' trilogy.

 

[Day2Day]

Faulkner

 

[rotate]

Eh? Never heard of him.

Famous with some infamous with others.

 

[SBC]

Famous with some infamous with others.

@Pypkė, for some world-class historical fiction that touches on Draza, see Michael O'Brien's Island of the World. It foregrounds the Catholic Croat experience of both Draza's genocidal Chetniks and their rivals, the (equally atrocious) Yugoslav Partisans.

 

[buroak]

Faulkner
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That’s a nice Dunhill Canadian.

 

[lika]

Sid James

 

[Briarcutter]

Sid James
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Tad rough on his pipes

 

[orlandofurioso]

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), artist and writer, best known as author and illustrator of the 'Gormenghast' trilogy.
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Thank you; he is my favourite author and illustrator.

 

[orlandofurioso]

Faulkner
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Currently reading Light in August .

 

[WorthyStewart]

Robison Jeffers. . . Doubt he’s made it to the list but he deserves to be here.

 

[keith929]