I give you W. H. Auden and the grandpa from the Gilmore Girls  (Edward Hermann): Then there’s Ann Patchett and Laura Linney: ...

Theodore Dreiser and Carl Reiner. If you don’t see it, I don’t know what to tell you: Zora Neale Hurston and Queen Latifah: the che...

Shave off Sherwood Anderson’s eyebrows and you’ve got Chris Cooper: Turn Gustave Flaubert’s hair white and you’ve got Wilford “ Dia...

Ezra pound is supposed to have died years ago. But are we sure he isn’t running Cuba? In the category of shaggy-headed, white-haire...

Henry Miller and Jean Luc Picard. “Engage:” Who can match Evelyn Waugh’s aristocratic airs? Lord Grantham, that’s who: Swa...

Georges Perec and Daniel Stern : “All the great ones leave their mark. We’re the wet bandits.” Someone get Honore de Balzac a perm a...

V.S Naipaul is a celebrated Trinidadian Indian, but those big jowls and heavy eyelids remind me a bit of old Kicking Bird (Graham Greene),...

Young Peter Orlovsky looks like he could have lit “ the world on FAH-EE-UH ” years before the idea struck Fun’s lead vocalist (Nate Ruess....

The narrow-set eyes under a straight, low brow hovering over a long nose and pursed lips… I’d say O Henry bears an undeniable resemblance ...

It feels like time for another round of these, doesn’t it? I give you the stern, twin gazes of Jose Saramago and Alan Arkin: And when y...