13 Photographs of Famous Writers With Their Fathers

Virginia Woolf and her father, Leslie Stephen, photographed by George Charles Beresford, 1902 F. Scott Fitzgerald and his father, Edward, 1929 F. Scott Fitzgerald and his father, Edward, 1929 Jack Kerouac with his sister Caroline, mother Gabrielle, and father Leo (over there on the right), 1944. Photo via NYPL via The Allen Ginsberg Project Hanif Kureishi, 6, with his father, Rafiushan Kureishi, in their garden in suburban London. Photo via the NYT Margaret Atwood with her father in Ontario in 1942. Margaret Atwood with her father in Ontario in 1942. Photo via The Telegraph Henry James, age 11, with his father, Henry James Sr. From an 1854 daguerreotype by Mathew Brady Mohsin Hamid as a child, with his father in Lahore, 1974. Photo via Herald harper lee and father Harper Lee with her father, Amasa Coleman Lee. Photo by Donald Uhrbrock via The Wall Street Journal Walter Mosley with his father, Leroy Mosley. Photo via NPR A very tiny Ursula K. Le Guin, c. 1929, in the arms of her father, Alfred Kroeber. Photo via the Bancroft Library Three-year-old Jhumpa Lahiri, with her parents, Amar and Tapati, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1970. Photo via The New Yorker Martin Amis and Kingsley Amis in 1975 Martin Amis and Kingsley Amis in 1975. Photo by Dmitri Kasterine via the National Portrait Gallery Joyce Carol Oates with her father, Frederic Oates, 1943. Photo by Carolina Oates via NYRB

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