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A contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt's pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.

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Hemingway in Cuba, 1952: “The Most Difficult Man I Ever Photographed”

Vladimir Nabokov looks at a butterfly, Ithaca, N.Y., 1958.

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Vlad the (Insect) Impaler: LIFE With Nabokov and His Butterflies

French writer Albert Camus smokes a cigarette on the balcony outside his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard's office in Paris, 1955. Camus won the Nobel in 1957; in 1960, when he was 46 years old, he was killed in a car crash along with Gallimard, who was driving.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature: Portraits of Legendary Laureates

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