Fashion and literature have occasionally joined forces, but for the most part, the two have kept their alliances to a minimum. Or have they​? Upon trawling through the incredible Vogue online archive, we made a startling discovery: writers have been copping their author photo poses from the magazine's covers for decades. Don't believe us? See the proof below.

The Another-Gloomy-Day-of-Writing-Critically-Acclaimed-Fiction Pose​

February 1962 Issue / Haruki Murakami

​The Best-Friends-With-Johnny-Depp Pose

July 1926 Issue / Hunter S. Thompson

The Get-on-My-Level-MFA-Students Pose

November 1924 Issue / John Updike

The Is-This-My-Best-Side-Objectively? Pose​

September 1983 Issue / Ayn Rand

The What-Do-I-Do-With-All-These-Puitzers? Pose​

September 1966 Issue / Toni Morrison

The I-Forgot-My-Mantra Pose

July 1976 Issue / Jeffrey Eugenides

The Chillaxing-in-a-Sea-of-Melancholy Pose​

​August 1938 Issue / Marcel Proust

The I-Find-Gossip-Girl-Quite-Derivitive Pose​

May 1931 Issue / Edith Wharton

The Confident-Yet-Not-Arrogantly-So-Billionaire Pose​

April 1956 Issue / J.K. Rowling

The Drowning-in-a-Tidepool-of-Misogyny​ Pose

August 1949 Issue / Virginia Woolf