Remember that time when Edgar Allen Poe, Aldous Huxley, Dylan
Thomas, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Stephen Crane, George Bernard Shaw, Lewis Carroll and T.E.
Lawrence all got to together with a few friends and held a giant photoshoot?
Yeah, well, the project that gave birth to that motley gathering
kicked off forty six years ago today. Above is the shot that finally landed on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album cover. Can you find the
writers named above? No? Me neither. (I could only find five without the help of a key.) But see below for all the writerly call-outs:
