With a bookish "young fogey" style already formed, he pressed on to Oxford, before heading home to be a reporter at the Aberdeen Press and Journal.
Karl Marx was a bookish gent with a huge bushy beard but that has not stopped his image decorating many a student bedroom down the years.
Having famously swum the English Channel for the Comic Relief back in 2006 and then the epic 140 mile length of the river Thames in 2011, The Queen's Orang-utan marks a bookish turn away from feats of sporting endurance for David Walliams' charitable activities.
With his bookish demeanour and command of several European languages, Mr Sapan is a fine advertisement for the rebels.
He was soon part of an influential liberal bookish clique, the Gruppe 47, and soared through journalism, editing a special literary supplement for the formidable Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.His next step took him from the cultural aristocracy to showbiz another huge leap for an outsider.
Like him, he is humbly-born and bookish.
Her bookish husband Herbert Asquith profited politically from these soirées.In this section Birdsong Marching through Georgia Lashes and lashing out Voice-overs Telling tales Sunshine and colour ReprintsA recent television drama portrays Margot Asquith as a flibbertigibbet, who was only interested in trivia.
Despite that, bookish Britain has been revelling in the celebrations for the centenary of his birth.Everyone can claim Orwell as an ally.
Until recently, a lot of Roman pundits reckoned he was too bookish, a touch naive, a bit soft, something of a light-weight.
At 12 or 13 a plump, bookish boy with a computer-company executive for a father and a very early Mac in the den he set up theinfo.org, a sort of Wikipedia before the fact, which was going to contain all the world's knowledge on one website.
Ms Holland explores this apparent transformation, interviewing many of the people who have known him over the years.As a boy Mr Mugabe was shy, sensitive and bookish, apparently without friends.
