LEO TOLSTOY wore a peasant's tunic to show his serfs that all men are brothers. But, after coupling with several of their daughters, he was forced to admit that all men are just men.
FRAN LEBOWITZ wears her trademark dark trouser suit, appropriate for a coiner of cynical aphorisms: "My favorite animal is bacon." She is seen here with the writer-director JOHN WATERS, whose jacket suggests a more cheerful view of life.
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OSCAR WILDE arrived in America wearing this green, fur-trimmed coat. His comment that the sea was "not so majestic as I had expected" resulted in the headline "Mr Wilde Disappointed with the Atlantic."
AYN RAND, proud to show her love for the free-enterprise system, wore a huge dollar sign around her neck. This symbol, some believed, had the power to fend off vampires and liberals.
JOHN O'HARA preferred tweeds with his monogrammed MG-TC and a three-piece suit with his Rolls-Royce. But, no matter what he wore, he seldom forgot to pin on his rosette from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
WILLIAM FAULKNER was frightened of horses, but he loved dressing up for the hunt. When Random House asked the author for his photograph, he sent this one.
NORMAN MAILER has always used clothes to assert his macho individualism. In 1949, when an elegant reception was held to honor him as the author of "The Naked and the Dead," he arrived in T-shirt and baseball cap.
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Vallarta Weddings
Entertainment | March 2005 
Edward Sorel - The New Yorker
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