Great Authors Who Smoked a Pipe

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

William Golding, 1911 – 1993


Stephen Crane, 1871 – 1900


Rudyard Kipling,1865 – 1936


Hunter Thompson, 1937 - 2005


John Steinbeck, 1902 – 1968


Sergei Yesenin, 1895 – 1925


Arthur Machen, 1863 – 1947


Luis Cernuda, 1902 – 1963


Julio Cortázar, 1914 – 1984


Stefan Zweig, 1881 – 1942


John Fante, 1909 – 1983

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Here's a pic of George Simenon with an open tin on the desk. I can't make out then blend though.
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The tin lid looks familiar. May be Royal Yacht.

Thanks for re-ingniting my interest in Maigret!

I did some reading up on Simenon recently --- I knew he was prolific, but the speed with which he could crank out a novel is amazing!

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

I wouldn’t want to be on a desert island ? stranded with Twain’s his snooty ass. ?
However, I believe it was relatively common for some folks to get others to break in their pipes for them. ️

 

[anotherbob]

Only half joking. Me. Though it's amazing how much writing and pipe smoking are a match made in heaven. Only reason I want an indoor smoking room.

 

[methomp]

Twain

great minds think alike!

 

[scloyd]

Almost forgot our own @odobenus (Nathaniel) who recently wrote a novel, which is very good, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. He may not be as famous as Twain, Steinbeck or Kipling, but he has time to catch up.

My New Arctic Novel Contains Much Pipe-Smoking :: General Pipe Smoking Discussion

Pipe-smoking friends, Please forgive the crass self-promotion. I wrote a novel, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, which is being published in the U.S. by Little, Brown & Co. on October 26, 2021. It concerns a miner-turned-trapper in the high Arctic Svalbard/Spitsbergen archipelago during the...

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[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

for sports:

Fred Perry, 1909 – 1995 (tennis)


"Babe" Ruth, 1895 – 1948 (baseball)


Bill Tilman, 1898 – 1977 (mountaineering, sailing)

 

[WhiteDevilPress]

While I would shy from applying the "great" descriptor to this author, he's certainly worth looking into for advocates of the outre and alternative literary genres...by which I refer to Harry Stephen Keeler. There's little chance you've heard of anything he wrote, but you can learn more here
Harry Stephen Keeler - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Stephen_Keeler
and there's a small fanbase publication accessible here

Harry Stephen Keeler Society

 

[coming to_falling too]

Robert Jordan

 

[gubbyduffer]

Scottish playwright and politicist Hugh MacDairmid

 

[gubbyduffer]

Arthur Miller

 

[brooklynpiper]

John Gardner! Very under-appreciated writer.

Read: Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues

 

[brooklynpiper]

No photos but Gustave Flaubert was a big pipe smoker and mentions it a lot in his letters:

"I think I must have been transplanted by the winds to this land of mud; surely I was born elsewhere - I've always had what seem like memories or intuitions of perfumed shores and blue seas. I was born to be emperor of Cochin-China, to smoke 100 foot-pipes, to have 6 thousand wives and 1400 catamites, scimitars to slice off heads I don't like the look of. Numidian horses, marble pools - and I have nothing but immense, insatiable desires, frightful boredom and incessant yawns. Also a broken pipe and dried-out tobacco.
Shit! Adieu; keep well."

 

[sardonicus87]

William Somerset Maugham ("Of Human Bondage", "The Moon and Sixpence", "The Razor's Edge", etc).

 

[makhorkasmoker]

Alan Watts
Isaiah Berlin
Bertrand Russell
I feel Melville MUST have smoked a pipe, he writes so much about 'em

 

[Hillcrest]

Alan Watts
Isaiah Berlin
Bertrand Russell
I feel Melville MUST have smoked a pipe, he writes so much about 'em

Much about smoking but no detail on tobacco choice :
Moby-Dick represented a pipe !!??? Probably meerschaum ! ?

Herman Melville's Literary Pipes | Smokingpipes.com

Learn about the pipes from Herman Melville's books.

www.smokingpipes.com

 

[jpberg]

And keep in mind that you might as well don a cowboy hat and a belt with cap gun six shooters and watch a Tom Mix movie as pretend any of the tobaccos those boys smoked are similar to todays version.

 

[mso489]

Hunter Thompson must have smoked a tobacco pipe when he came up for air. Not too often.

 

[hugodrax]

Simenon's usual smoke was Royal Yacht, if that helps. Of course, like the rest us, he smoked other things but that was his favorite. He ordered it in a wider cut known as Coupe Maigret.