Writers in hats

[Mr. Lucky]

We've done musicians, artists and women in hats. I think it's high time, yes, high time, we get down to the hardboiled purveyors of the prose!

I'll start it off with one of my personal favorites, Dashiell Hammett -

 

[Nik Taylor]

Tom Wolfe

 

[azshawn]

Hemingway in a hat whose brim is in proportion to his personality

 

[Mr. Lucky]

James Ellroy

 

[azshawn]

James Ellroy

Double take! Avatar X 2

 

[Wolfwood]

The usual suspect, Sir Terry Pratchett with two different hats:

 

[hatophile]

William Faulkner- I found this on Google, never had seen a photo with him in a beard.

 

[Wolfwood]

Very difficult to find good images of J. R. R. Tolkien wearing a hat, but here are a couple:

 

[Italian-wiseguy]

Italo Svevo (Ettore Aron Schmitz):

his friend James Joyce:

 

[Italian-wiseguy]

Very difficult to find good images of J. R. R. Tolkien wearing a hat, but here are a couple:

The second one is somehow "gandalfesque"

 

[Wolfwood]

And the magnificent author of Aubrey&Maturin novels, Patrick O'Brian:

 

[Wolfwood]

One more from me: the hilarious P. G. Wodehouse:

 

[Italian-wiseguy]

Just to complete the "serie" with Joyce and Svevo, mr Fernando Pessoa:

 

[mayserwegener]

his friend James Joyce:

Fantastic Velour!

 

[hatophile]

I like the look of Joyce's hat, looks like a velour finish

 

[hatophile]

James Lee Burke
Writes mysteries based on a New Orleans character.

 

[Mr E Train]

G.K. Chesterton

 

[Quixote]

Arthur Conan Doyle:

Rare photo of H. P. Lovecraft in a hat:

 

[Wolfwood]

Oh, almost forgot about the creator of Conan (not the dumb Governator version, but the smart and agile Hyborean hero), Robert E. Howard:

 

[AEH]

Knut Hamsun

The great Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner of 1920, but also a reactionary supporter of the Nazi rule during WWII, which led to his conviction as a traitor after the war. But he had an interesting history of hats:

As a teenager in 1874

Probably in the 1880's

Whit his wife Marie in 1909

Between the wars

On his way to his trial in 1948, at the age of 88