25 Famous Literary Couples
In this post we share a list and photographs of contemporary famous literary couples.
There are so many stories of unhappy literary couples. The truth is there are as many happy and unhappy pairings in the writing world as there are in any other profession.
These photographs of contemporary literary couples make us believe that love and writing can go together.
25 Famous Literary Couples
Here is our full list of 25 famous, and infamous, literary couples.
- Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
- Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
- David Foster Wallace and Mary Karr
- Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre
- Graeme Gibson and Margaret Atwood
- Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
- John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion
- Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss
- Keith Gessen and Emily Gould
- Martin Amis and Isabel Fonseca
- Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
- Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding
- Nicholas Pileggi and Nora Ephron
- Nick Laird and Zadie Smith
- Norman Mailer and Norris Church Mailer
- Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt
- Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
- Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
- Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning
- Stephen King and Tabitha King
- Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
- Truman Capote and Jack Dunphy
- Yann Martel and Alice Kuipers
Images: Source for Chabon & Waldman, Source for Amis & Fonseca, Source for Ondaatjie & Spalding, Source for Laird & Smith, Source for Gibson & Atwood, Source for Martel & Kuipers, Source for Eggers & Vida, Source for Safran Foer & Krauss.
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 by Amanda Patterson
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5 thoughts on “25 Famous Literary Couples”
David Kirby and Barbara Hamby, Joan Didion and John Dunne!
disappointed not to see Faye Kellerman and John Kellerman on this list.
What about Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt?
How could you leave off Dorianne Laux and Joe Millar!
I would like to add the Jim Butcher couple. ?
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