Even the literary elite needed to back away from their typewriters and Moleskines and cool off back in the day. Flavorwire has compiled some photos of writers of the past wearing nothing but their swimsuits, including these pics of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hunter S. Thompson. Where do you think they were "summering," Rockaway?
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