Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore examines fifty revered writers - among them Samuel Beckett, Quentin Crisp, Simone de Beauvoir, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Malcolm Gladwell, Donna Tartt, John Updike, Oscar Wilde, and Tom Wolf - whose work and way of dress bears an idiosyncratic stamp influencing culture today. Terry Newman combines illuminating anecdotes about authors and their work, archival photography, first-person quotations from each writer and current designers, little-known facts, and clothing-oriented excerpts that exemplify their original writing style.