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Authorgängers: 7 Writers and Their Celebrity Lookalikes

May 07, 2014

George Perec and Elijah Wood, E. E. Cummings and Channing Tatum, Ernest Hemingway and every old guy in Key West — authors may be singular in their talent, but not their looks.

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By Adina Applebaum

April 02, 2014

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