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* [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]] wrote a few travelogues, despite usually being considered a recluse who rarely left his home (which isn't true. While he did spend most of his life in Providence and didn't socialise much, he did often travel to meet his friends in other parts of the country). He also wrote the comic short story [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Sweet_Ermengarde Sweet Ermengarde], a parody of romantic melodrama, and [http://lovecraftlibrary.org/hpl/waste/ Waste Paper], a painfully spot-on parody of "[[The Waste Land]]." In a vaguely related vein, he responded to a friend's teasing about his teetotaling by writing "Old Bugs", a parodically exaggerated [[Scare'Em Straight]] story about alcohol.

* Vladimir Mayakovskiy, a famous Soviet poet, was also a [[wikipedia:Futurism|futuristic]] artist when he was young.

* [[Vladimir Nabokov]] was also an entomologist, and he extensively studied a boring butterfly tribe, the [[wikipedia:Polyommatini|Polyommatini]].

* Naomi Novik, author of the ''[[Temeraire]]'' series of novels, was originally a prolific writer of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' [[Fan Fiction]].