Authors boxing.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2008/01/vladimir_nabokov1.jpg

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/mailerbrennan276.jpg

Gutted not to find any Truman Capote boxing pics.

http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/images/photos/boxing2.jpg

I was struggling so hard to find that.

There was a Dada guy who "fought" Jack Johnson I think, i.e. got pummelled to crap as an art statement. Can't remember his name tho.

http://www.ieeff.org/ny.html

Arthur Cravan. Easier to Google than I thought. No pic of him getting duffed up tho.

http://www.excentriques.com/cravan/images/104.jpg

K I lied about that too. Sorry. Hangover.

Guy is basically a fucking hero tho.

I'd never heard of this guy/story: how cool!

http://www.achievement.org/achievers/oat0/large/oat0-005.jpg

okay, that's as close as i could get.

can't believe i'm the first to post this though...

http://i.cnn.net/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0708/plimpton/images/05779878.jpg

rather surprising result:

Results 1 - 10 of about 106,000 for "virginia woolf" boxing. (0.20 seconds)

people used to make fun of gene tunney for being such a bookworm. he hung around with hemingway and lots of other artsy folks. definitely one of the most erudite of champions.

http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/tunney.jpg

not boxing, but here's manly man john irving going down for the count:

http://www.geocities.com/irvingophile/john_girlfriend2.jpg

http://www.unhmagazine.unh.edu/f05/images/p32b.jpg

Morley Callaghan, That Summer in Paris:

The truth was that we were two amateur boxers. The difference between us was that he (Hemingway) had given time and imagination to boxing; I had actually worked out a lot with good fast college boxers.

In Paris there were scoffers, envious men, always belittling Ernest, who would whisper that his physical roughness was all a bluff. It was utter nonsense. He was a big rough tough clumsy unscientific man. in a small bar, or in an alley, where he could have cornered me in a rough-and-tumble brawl, he might have broken my back, he was so much bigger. But with gloves on and in a space big enough for me to move around, I could be confident. My wife remembers how, when I came home, she would complain that my shoulders were black and blue. Laughing, I would explain that she should feel thankful; the shoulder welts and bruises meant Ernest had always missed my jaw or nose or mouth.

Callaghan was able to punch Hemingway at will.

A couple years ago, Jonathan Ames boxed a guy and then made out in a celebratory fashion with Fiona Apple, causing a brief hormonal stir among many of his students. Well, that and a picture of his back on his website.

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=58873&cat=boxer

Arthur Cravan's complete boxing record.

http://www.splicetoday.com/vault/posts/0000/1277/mamet_large.jpg

Mamet in the ring -- close.

was there ever a picture taken of Vargas Llosa punching 100 years of solitude dude out

no but i believe there is a picture of Gabo with a black eye after the event.

http://journalperu.com/pics/2007/03/gabriel_garcia_marquez_1.thumbnail.jpg

love that dude

http://newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/01_28_09/JK/img077.jpg

http://newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/01_28_09/JK/img076.jpghttp://newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/01_28_09/JK/img075.jpg

(updike: http://newyorksocialdiary.com/node/193849)

What depths lay within that broad-backed swaggerer, who had developed formidable muscles in the school gym so he could box and wrestle, the most brutal and aggressive sports?...

Sartre soon brought his students along to the gym, where he taught them the left uppercut and the right hook, training them with punching bag and jumping rope, sonn producing several worthy sparring partners.

Cohen-Solal, J-PS

had to go somewhere

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-i1NALFmszOw/UJhtxrkV_fI/AAAAAAAAAow/ODBiiPaOmDI/s1600/Miles+Boxing.jpg

Thom Jones

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/10/47/66/2260404/5/628x471.jpg