33 Literary Geniuses Who Happen To Be Super Hot

He was misogynistic, yes, but it can't be denied that Hemingway was a looker.

Dayyyyyyum, The Color Purple bagged the National Book Award in '83, and its author just bagged a top spot on this list.

The poet was once described by W.B. Yeats as "the handsomest young man in England."

She won the 2000 Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri = whole package.

He pioneered Jazz Poetry and he could get it.

Zadie Smith could cut you with her words and her cheekbones.

John Steinbeck? More like, John FINE-beck.

Hawthorne was a studmuffin, and having penned The Scarlet Letter, totally a feminist too.

She was a 2010 winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and hearts everywhere.

Who would've thunk that Hitchcock's creepy movie The Birds was a adapted from a story that came from this angelic head? Respect.

He wasn't just a sexy beast, if you've ever read The Kiss, you know he was also devastatingly romantic.

Also one of the New Yorker's 2010 20 Under 40 selections, Adichie is a supertalented writer and a perfect 10.

Voltaire could even make a long curly wig look sexy.

Looks and talent, Alarcón was one of the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 selections in 2010. What a cutie.

This former Poet Laureate isn't just easy on the eyes, her poems are easy on the ears too.

F. Scott and his wife, Zelda, were the physical embodiment of the Jazz Age. Can write. Can party.

Tao Lin might be controversial, but his studliness certainly isn't.

This was Jack Kerouac's U.S. Naval Reserve enlistment photo. Don't all go enlisting at once now.

Hands down, hottest Romantic poet ever. Also the inspiration for the Byronic hero. Sigh.

Her debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics has been translated into 30 languages. Can you say hot in 30 languages?

Born Chloe Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, Toni Morrison is a legend and a looker.

This prize-winning writer should win a prize for those baby blues.

Jane Eyre-resistable, amirite?

Those eyes. So piercing.

Probably most people would like to discuss The History of Love with Nicole Krauss, but Jonathan Safran Foer won. High five, Jonathan Safran Foer.

No wonder Lawrence had so many books about love, by the looks of it, he was probably an expert.

So brilliant and such a babe.

Joan Didion could've given Kate Moss a run for her money.

Brooding, handsome, and brilliant? Check, check, and check.

Multi-talented Neil Gaiman is basically Jim Morrison's hair twin.

Scarlett O'Hara who? Margaret Mitchell's doe eyes are way more captivating.

This broodingly hot author has a way with words. His novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer in 2008.

Theory: Salinger was reclusive because he was sick of all the groupies he was attracting.