Cool-looking authors No. 24

Author of "Christmas in Canaan" as well as the photographer of the book "Your Friends and Mine." Oh, and I hear he's a pretty good singer.

(Photo from Kenny Rogers Productions)

Home

Certain empty houses
that seemed
to stare

like the faces
of people suffering
from terrible
mental illness.

— Stephen King, "11/22/63"

Cool-looking authors No. 23

Madonna, author of "The English Roses" series

(Photo by Herb Ritts)

Cool-looking authors No. 22

Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), author of the poetry collection "The Rose That Grew From Concrete"

(Photo by Michael O'Neill)

Cool-looking authors No. 21

Jay-Z, author of "Decoded"

(Album "In My Lifetime Vol. 1" photo by Jonathan Mannion.)

Cool-looking authors No. 20

Poet and actor Jimmy Stewart (1908-1997). Author of "Jimmy Stewart and His Poems."

Power

A man
who owned
his own
private tornado.

— Stephen King, "11/22/63"

Cool-looking authors No. 19

Ethan Hawke, author of "Ash Wednesday" and "The Hottest State"

Cool-looking authors No. 18

The poet - and actress and fitness enthusiast - Suzanne Somers

Cool-looking authors No. 17

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, editor of "The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"