5 Authors More Badass Than The Badass Character They Created

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Over at Cracked:

"When you read a story of a manly hero slaying a dragon and then
bedding the princess, it's easy to imagine there's a 300-pound author
sitting behind the typewriter in a tiny apartment full of cats. After
all, fiction is all about escaping our real life, right?
Not always. In fact, if you look at the authors behind some of the
most iconic heroes of all time, you find a writer who's every bit as
badass. Not only did these guys insert elements from their actual
lives into the stories, they actually toned them down a bit.

We're talking about the creators of characters like..."

http://tinyurl.com/Badass-authors

Al