Great authors like Mark Twain and Charles Dickens are often celebrated for their words, but behind those words are fascinating lives filled with unique moments that are rarely captured. While we may be familiar with their famous literary works, getting a glimpse into their personal lives is a different story.
These rare photographs below offer a unique window into the world of iconic authors, revealing their rarely-seen personalities and passions. Scroll on!
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1. Mark Twain with a cat
2. An early portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, possibly the first known photograph of him
3. J.R.R Tolkien in his study with his own hand-drawn map of Middle Earth
4. C. S. Lewis with a pipe
5. The only color picture of Leo Tolstoy
6. Oscar Wilde attending a garden party
7. Ernest Hemingway with his chauffeur Adamo Simon
8. Rare portrait of Virginia Woolf
9. Rare daguerreotype of Charles Dickens
10. Franz Kafka with his dog
11. Portrait of a young Sigmund Freud
12. Rare picture of John Steinbeck
13. 46-year-old Charles Darwin
14. Albert Camus dancing
15. Last Photo of Fyodor Dostoevsky while alive
