• 22 Photos of Famous Authors and Their Moms

    Happy Mother's Day

    In case you haven’t noticed, this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Be nice to your mom. Maybe you could even hang out with her. I promise she’ll like it better than flowers that come in a box, or even a new book (sacrilege, I know). And hey, these twenty-two famous authors did it—even if some of them were babies at the time. So to celebrate some of our greatest writers and the women who brought them into the world, below you’ll find snapshots of Ernest Hemingway, Marguerite Duras, Jorge Luis Borges, Maya Angelou and more, all captured spending quality time with their mothers. (Flowers are nice too.)

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    hemingway family Ernest Hemingway and his family at his boyhood home at 339 N. Oak Park Place Ave in Oak Park, Illinois. 1918. The Hemingway family from left to right: his father, Dr. Clarence; his mother, Mrs. Grace, Ernest; Madeliane; Ursula; Marcelline and Leicester and Carol in front. Reuters file photo via IBT. Marguerite Duras with her mother Marguerite Duras with her mother, Marie Donnadieu, via JSTOR Sylvia Plath with her mother Aurelia and brother Warren, circa 1952, via Vintage Everyday Maya Angelou and her mother, Vivian Baxter. Random House via NPR. virginia woolf and mom A young Virginia (Woolf) with her mother, Julia Stephen. Photo by Henry H. H. Cameron via Camberwell Foxes Julio Cortazar with his mother Julio Cortazar with his mother in Austria, 1963, via Publicable agatha christie mother Agatha Christie with her mother, Clara, via Pinterest. roald dahl and mom A young Roald Dahl with his mother, Sofie (and pet dog) in the garden of Ty Mynydd, circa 1919, via Roald Dahl Facts. Tennessee Williams with his mother Tennessee Williams with his mother, Edwina Williams, via WNYC amy tan mother Amy Tan and her mother, Daisy, 1989, via NPR eudora welty and mother Eudora Welty and her mother, Chestina, in their garden. Photograph by Rollie McKenna, via Pinterest proust and mom Marcel Proust with his mother, Jeanne Clémence Weil, and brother, Robert, circa 1895, via NYRB arthur miller family Arthur Miller with his mother Augusta, his father Isidore, and his new wife, Marilyn Monroe, 1956, via Infinite Marilyn Monroe A pretty disgruntled baby Italo Calvino, with his mother, Eva Mameli Calvino, via Pinterest raymond carver mother 10-year-old Raymond Carver with his mother Ella, and brother James, via The Quivering Pen flannery o'connor mother Flannery O’Connor (second from left) with a friend, some nuns (Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet), and her mother, Regina, in 1961, via the Arlington Catholic Herald Thomas Wolfe and his mother Thomas Wolfe and his mother Julia, via N.C. Historic Sites. borges and mother Jorge Luis Borges with his mother Leonor, on the Westminster Bridge, 1963, via This Recording Doris Lessing with her mother Doris Lessing with her mother Emily, her brother, and some very good dogs, via Numero Cinq marianne moore and mother Marianne Moore (right) and her mother, Mary Warner Moore, Brooklyn, 1932, via NYRB philip roth family Philip Roth with his mother Bess, his father and brother, 1942, via Newark Public Library William Carlos Williams with his mother William Carlos Williams with his mother, Raquel Hélène Rose Hoheb, via William Carlos Williams.



    Emily Temple
    Emily Temple
    Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.
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