A Visual Encyclopedia Of Literature

What if the color of a famous writer's nose could tell you more than what a raging alcoholic they were?

A common stereotype about writers is that they're always drunk. Let me tell you from a first-person position of authority that this isn't true: sometimes, we're merely hungover. Regardless, more than a few authors—Oscar Wilde, Kingsley Amis, Charles Bukowski, and Ernest Hemingway—have had alcohol-induced rosacea. So here's a weird thought: What if the color of a writer's nose could be used to discern more than just their alcoholism, but was color coded to their school of writing?

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