The Great Authorial Hookup Chart, version 1
September 22, 2014 6:16 PM Subscribe
The Great Authorial Hookup Chart (larger image), or how to connect Bram Stoker to Arthur Miller in 12 connections, and from Oscar Wilde to Roald Dahl in 12 romances (or how to make distracted students pay attention to English and History), from Black Balloon Publishing's Airship Daily blog.
Of course, with less than 50 individuals identified, this is far from exhaustive. The comments mention some ideas for future relationship charts.
Of course, with less than 50 individuals identified, this is far from exhaustive. The comments mention some ideas for future relationship charts.
Saw this earlier on Twitter - my comment is same there: only TWO LINES leading to Tallulah Bankhead? Me thinks not.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:29 PM on September 22, 2014 [6 favorites]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:29 PM on September 22, 2014 [6 favorites]
Wait- Walt Whitman/Oscar Wilde actually happened?! My brain just popped, I think.
How did I not know this??
posted by DGStieber at 6:30 PM on September 22, 2014
How did I not know this??
posted by DGStieber at 6:30 PM on September 22, 2014
I imagine some people would have more of a constellation of connections around them, rather than a scant few lines, but this is a rather quick attempt to make a series of connections, I'd guess.
As for Wilde and Whitman, here's an article on Oscar Wilde's American Tour, where Wilde wrote “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.”
posted by filthy light thief at 6:35 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
As for Wilde and Whitman, here's an article on Oscar Wilde's American Tour, where Wilde wrote “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.”
posted by filthy light thief at 6:35 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
#BookGate
posted by Artw at 6:36 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by Artw at 6:36 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
Wait- Walt Whitman/Oscar Wilde actually happened?!
Probably not, if by "actually happened" you mean sex.
posted by betweenthebars at 6:42 PM on September 22, 2014 [3 favorites]
Probably not, if by "actually happened" you mean sex.
posted by betweenthebars at 6:42 PM on September 22, 2014 [3 favorites]
Regarding Wilde/Whitman, the Toast delivers again: Literary Trysts It Gives Me Great Joy To Think About: Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman
posted by Francies at 6:49 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by Francies at 6:49 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
I would have expected something shaped more like a spiderweb, with Oscar Wilde in the center.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:15 PM on September 22, 2014
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:15 PM on September 22, 2014
He's like Wolverine in the X-Men relationship chart.
posted by Artw at 7:47 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 7:47 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
How the hell did you turn my freshman dorm conversations into a website?
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
I LOVE THIS. It's all my English class gossip in infographic form!
Now I need one of the Romantics with a tangled snarl of Byron/Bysshe Shelley/Shelley/Polidori/Byron/Byron in the middle.
posted by nicebookrack at 8:02 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
Now I need one of the Romantics with a tangled snarl of Byron/Bysshe Shelley/Shelley/Polidori/Byron/Byron in the middle.
posted by nicebookrack at 8:02 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
Now I think on it, I would love to see a website like a writer genealogy map with a customizable web of different-colored hookup levels. Slept With - Roommate at Clarion West - Bitter Literary Rivalry With - Dedicated a Book To - Formed Workshop Clique With - Followed On Twitter - etc. etc. With a special color for Slept With Byron.
posted by nicebookrack at 8:07 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by nicebookrack at 8:07 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
*Goes to chart, finds Lord Byron*
"See attached appendix"
posted by The Whelk at 8:09 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
"See attached appendix"
posted by The Whelk at 8:09 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
<golf clap>
posted by jeffburdges at 9:00 PM on September 22, 2014
posted by jeffburdges at 9:00 PM on September 22, 2014
Sex-charts are a lot more comfortable to contemplate, discuss, and create when everyone invovled is dead.
Beware of creating this with living groups of people - only (bad) drama will result.
posted by el io at 10:13 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
Beware of creating this with living groups of people - only (bad) drama will result.
posted by el io at 10:13 PM on September 22, 2014 [2 favorites]
SOMEBODY just sent me some Lord Byron fanfic and I feel the need to share.
posted by The Whelk at 10:49 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 10:49 PM on September 22, 2014 [5 favorites]
what excellent taste in fanfic you have, The Whelk!
posted by nicebookrack at 11:58 PM on September 22, 2014
posted by nicebookrack at 11:58 PM on September 22, 2014
This reminds me of a "wait, WHAT?" moment I had idling through Wikipedia last week: J.C.P. Williams, the cardiologist who discovered and named Williams syndrome, proposed marriage to the poet Janet Frame, who rejected him; Williams promptly disappeared for (ongoing) 40+ years.
posted by nicebookrack at 12:19 AM on September 23, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by nicebookrack at 12:19 AM on September 23, 2014 [2 favorites]
Vita Sackville-West is kind of amazing.
I first learnt about her on a show about posh country gardens. They had all these shots and dead rioting of a posh house and grounds and then every so often they'd drop in a biographical detail like "oh yes, Orlando was based on her."
posted by Artw at 12:32 AM on September 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
I first learnt about her on a show about posh country gardens. They had all these shots and dead rioting of a posh house and grounds and then every so often they'd drop in a biographical detail like "oh yes, Orlando was based on her."
posted by Artw at 12:32 AM on September 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
There's a fantastically ambitious version of this at Kindred Britain, which links 30,000 individuals into a single network of relationships. It's more interested in kinship and marriage than in extra-marital hookups (thus Virginia Woolf is linked to Leonard Woolf but not, as far as I can see, to Vita Sackville West), but there's no reason why the concept couldn't be extended. (A few same-sex couples are included, e.g. Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, but selectively.) Unfortunately there are browser compatibility issues (doesn't work with Firefox or IE) but it's worth exploring if you can get it to load. For more about the concept behind the site, see the notes.
posted by verstegan at 1:51 AM on September 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by verstegan at 1:51 AM on September 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
#authorgate!!!! Don't all these people sleeping with each other realise how they're hurting the stout, proud, traditional readers of serials and periodicals?
posted by Drexen at 2:26 AM on September 23, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Drexen at 2:26 AM on September 23, 2014 [2 favorites]
SOMEBODY just sent me some Lord Byron fanfic and I feel the need to share.
I kind of thought this would just be a link to Stoppard's Arcadia.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:35 AM on September 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
I kind of thought this would just be a link to Stoppard's Arcadia.
posted by shakespeherian at 7:35 AM on September 23, 2014 [1 favorite]
Marlene Dietrich's are highly dubious, as they're unsubstantiated and she self-reported them much later in life (as I recall).
posted by Ndwright at 8:28 PM on September 23, 2014
posted by Ndwright at 8:28 PM on September 23, 2014
Lots of Golden Dawn connections here.
That's right - Crowley cooties.
posted by Artw at 8:32 PM on September 23, 2014
That's right - Crowley cooties.
posted by Artw at 8:32 PM on September 23, 2014
This seems to be missing the usual Gay Succession of Whitman -> Edward Carpenter -> Gavin Arthur -> Neal Cassady -> Allen Ginsberg (Previously)
posted by larrybob at 3:42 PM on September 30, 2014
posted by larrybob at 3:42 PM on September 30, 2014
Edward Carpenter is my patronus
posted by The Whelk at 3:47 PM on September 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 3:47 PM on September 30, 2014 [1 favorite]
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