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Christos D. Tsatsaronis

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William Golding, 1911 – 1993
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Stephen Crane, 1871 – 1900
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Rudyard Kipling,1865 – 1936
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Hunter Thompson, 1937 - 2005
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John Steinbeck, 1902 – 1968
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Sergei Yesenin, 1895 – 1925
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Arthur Machen, 1863 – 1947
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Luis Cernuda, 1902 – 1963
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Julio Cortázar, 1914 – 1984
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Stefan Zweig, 1881 – 1942
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John Fante, 1909 – 1983
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HawkeyeLinus

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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!
 
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scloyd

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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.

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brooklynpiper

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John Gardner! Very under-appreciated writer.

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Read: Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues
 

brooklynpiper

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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."
 

jpberg

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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.