A Compendium of Smoking Writers, Part Four or Five or Around There

I’m due for another one of these, and I kind of miss blatantly stealing images of beauty without attribution, from bloggers and websites that did the same (I did steal some of them from The Gentleman). Of note are the reprisals of Chesterton, looking as crabby as ever, and Alan Moore with his life-long imitation of a backwoods serial killer.

There are also two of Faulkner as he and his mustache enjoy a sound piping.

Not pictured below is the knock-down internal debate I had over Hugh Heffner’s status as an actual writer or merely a potboiling smut peddler that got a lucky break.

W. Somerset Maughm:

Uwe Johnson. I feel like buying an analog watch just so I can set time to his haircut:

Mark Twain:

J.R.R. Tolkein:

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

Steve Martin (he counts):

P.J. O’Rourke:

Ian Fleming:

Goran Simić:

William Faulkner:

Dylan Thomas:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

G.K. Chesterton:

Bob Monkhouse:

Bertrand Russell:

Alan Moore:

Hunter S. Thompson: