Of all the types of celebrities out there, literary celebrities usually get the short end of the stick. It’s understandable: A grainy, thumb-sized portrait on the back of a book cover isn’t going to provide maximum facial recognition potential. But still, doesn’t your favorite writer deserve to get asked for their autograph at the airport or have a training bra tossed at them once in a while?

To correct this injustice, the next time you see the more famous celebrity counterparts of the authors below, run up to them and mistake them for the writers they resemble — “Channing Tatum? Wait, so you’re not E. E. Cummings risen from the dead? Oh, never mind, then, I don’t want that autograph. Thanks anyway.”

1. Ernest Hemingway and, like, Half of Key West

To be fair, this photo comes from the annual Hemingway look-alike competition held each summer at Sloppy Joe’s (coming up this year July 17 to 19 — get your beards ready!) and random old men in Key West do not celebrities make — but how scary is this? Does the fact that so many turn out for the contest say more about Key West or Hemingway? And do these guys grow out their beards and travel north during Christmas? Write us with answers, if you can muster them.

2. Georges Perec and Elijah Wood

One of them was a nice Jewish boy who loved experimental wordplay; the other starred as a dancing penguin in the movie Happy Feet. Both are good candidates for a dinner date your grandparents would approve of.

3. H. P. Lovecraft and Sober William S. Burroughs

Wasted William S. Burroughs, on the other hand, looks like that uncle your family stopped inviting to Thanksgiving dinner.