Famous Writer Couples

Sometimes, for better or for worse, writers find each other and have affairs with, or marry, or live with each other. Some relationships are happy, some not. Some are longlasting, some not. Below are a few famous writer couples.

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf
Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren
Zelda Fitzgerald and F. Scott Fitzgerald
W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett
Mary McCarthy and Edmund Wilson
Jean Stafford and Robert Lowell
Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell
Lady Caroline Blackwood and Robert Lowell
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver
Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall
Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon