Favorite author photos and portraits

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This thread is essentially for posting pictures your really like of authors (not necessarily authors you like, but it couldn't hurt)
The reason I'm even starting this is because I just stumbled upon this lovely picture of GK Chesterton:
ihttp://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/pictures/chesterton-2.jpg

I'm sorry if this thread is considered too flimsy for this forum, but it seemed silly to move it to ILE instead.
Those of you wondering how to post pictures that you've found online: just write "i", immediately followed by the address to the image, such as ihttp://www.website.com/image.gif

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ahh, it's somewhat embarrassing that I'm unable to do it myself!

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

Interesting for the awareness of "image" that he wanted to project.
(Oystein, there are size limits on the i tag, it's not you!)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

I own a fridge magnet with that Byron image. Levels of absurdity.

― Tinka, Friday, 10 September 2004 13:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

Mark Twain
http://www.coldbacon.com/pics/twain.jpg

― Mr. Jaggers, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

I hope this works... I love this bastard (great book too btw):

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

Crap. I'm computer illiterate (Stalks back to cage in her dunce cap.)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

Who was it?

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

It was Kingsley Amis on the cover of The King's English. Sigh.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

AAAAAAAAAAAAAWWW! Thank you. Neat, it's bigger than the one I was trying to post anyway. Do the addresses of postable images all end in .gif?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

No, in fact I posted a jpg of Joyce just a few posts ago.

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Nyerg. Well, I'm computer illiterate... but at least I'm trying. Can you imagine the spinning-in-his-grave old Kingsley's doing over the Bush campaign? When the candidate's PROS include butchering American English... poor old dead pedant. We'll have to channel him.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 11 September 2004 01:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

Alternately:

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 11 September 2004 01:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

You also can't use IMG tags, you have to use ihttp.

I had a poster of this up in my room when I was living at home, and it freaked my mother out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 04:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

Hemingway

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

If I remember correctly, IMG tags were allowed on this board some time back (before the planned outrage?). Anyways, here's Hemingway:

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yes, most tags are no longer allowed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

I have too much time

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 22:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

― SRH (Skrik), Sunday, 12 September 2004 13:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jeffrey Eugenides

Yann Martel

― Fred (Fred), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

That Tom Robbins one is really improved by the Hell's Angel note.
That Perec picture is great too! I saw a different picture of him a few months ago that really made me like him, since he had a nice black cat on his shoulders that reminded me of my ol' pal Fjodor (who unfortunately ran into trouble with a motorist back in March)

Man Ray took some good ones too. The one of Proust on his death bed makes me feel creepy just for looking at it though.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/images/m/05333301.jpg (err, not shown directly, in case there's some here who'd rather not see it)

Oh, and an image that I was introduced to by this very board:

And on a sillier note... If we mix the Byron picture with Eugenides, we get Lermontov?

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

rupert brooke

a film version of his life would probably be doomed to star hugh grant.

― erik, Sunday, 12 September 2004 21:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

Sylvia Plath (rowr):

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yes, the Perec photo with the cat is also classic:

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 13 September 2004 01:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

pierre loti, he was quite mad

― eriik, Monday, 13 September 2004 06:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

I guess. ;D Chris -- who is THAT???

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

I can't do it either. Otherwise, I'd send you pictures of Leslie Norris and Loren Eiseley.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

With the kitty? It's Georges Perec. I don't know what the kitty's name was.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

Robert Graves

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

WH Auden

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

Wilde! (not posting directly)
http://www.zweitausendeins.de/Presse/Media/Wilde.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yeti!

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

Two Smoking Photos...

I've got this Beckett 8”x10” on top of one of my bookcases, and it’s one of my favorite author photos ever:

Perhaps my second-favorite Didion photo is this (although the one I truly love has to be on the front of the Modern Library edition of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”):

- Jeremy R.

― Jeremy Rice, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

And of course the ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates:

― Jeremy Rice, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://trishymouse.net/images/gwen.jpg

― equinox, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

The Pierre Loti should be blown up to 4x6 feet and hung on the wall in every AP English classroom as a warning.

what can happen if you immerse yourself in the fine arts.

― clellie, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

Samuel Beckett

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

What about the authors who don't look good or eccentric? Don't they deserve a place here? Let's see...
Julian Barnes
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/b/julian-barnes-210x330.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

Stephen King!

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Somehow, I've always liked how T.C. Boyle manages to do a rock-star-of-books pose and still come off like he's having fun with it:

http://www.davidstrick.com/Still%20More/Still%20More%201/images_still%20more%201/tc_boyle_frame.jpg

― Joseph J. Finn, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Rabindranath Tagore

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

Hey Fred

Who's that 'Yeti' you have posted up there?
She looks sweet but she seems to me like a young lady.

― MebbeImPaul, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Rob Hinchcliffe, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

ok that didn't work - one more go:

― Hinchcliffe, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

Here he is:

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

Grrrr.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

For a diptych with Plath:

― Dash--board, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Dash--board, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

Carson McCullers. She kind of scares me there, but in a good way.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

Who's that 'Yeti' you have posted up there?
She looks sweet but she seems to me like a young lady.
She's my personal author, à la Misery! She writes short stories for me.

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

(That's Buster Keaton and Beckett, btw)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

The Eugenides photo upthread makes him look like a magician.

And that last King photo that Fred posted looks like Orson Welles!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

BICYCLE!!!

― MebbeImPaul, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yann Martel is kind of hott.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oops...
http://wodehouse.meetup.com/photos/

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

Wodehouse:

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

Tom Wolfe:

http://home.millsaps.edu/~mcelvrs/Tom_Wolfe.jpg

― RR (restandrec), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 03:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

I've not got a picture of it but I once saw Anne carson read and she had red ribbons as laces in her shoes. Very fetching it was too.

― tim wells, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

Statues, anyone?

Balzac
http://events.adelphi.edu/news/archive/images/20030305a.jpg
The handsome Michael Chabon

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jane Austen

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/jacportr.jpg

― Jean W. Spencer, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

You do know what Balzac is doing under that robe, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

gary shteyngart is pretty good

― Guy, Thursday, 16 September 2004 04:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Gurdjieff

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

Fred -- I love that Nothomb photo too!! How did you like the book?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 17 September 2004 22:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

Well I have two of her books with me, Le Robert des noms propres and Stupeur et tremblements, but haven't read any of them as yet.

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

In memoriam:

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

Fred, be ready for some yummy creepfulness.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

Haha, okay!

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

It bothers me that I can't find a scan of this wonderful picture I recently saw of Agnar Mykle.
O well, I did stumble upon this nice one of James Branch Cabell today, which somehow seems SO right:
ihttp://www.library.vcu.edu/jbcdocs/speccoll/images/scavan01.jpg

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

Anais, what an ego! Here's to you!

― mickey (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 1 October 2004 00:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Gee, none of Erica Jong?

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 6 March 2005 06:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

(Jens Bjørneboe)

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 1 May 2005 09:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

Dashing Tennyson:

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

I wish I could find the photo of Empson with his amazing bare-chinned superbeard! So awesome.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

This one, GP?

I have a feeling you'd approve of this one, too:

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

Herodotus:

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

This was a fun thread from ILE: Pictures of Writers

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 14 November 2005 23:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

The master.

― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

Someone pointed out to me that every picture of Gogol looks fantastic.

(a) Someone prove this theory wrong.
(b) Is there a word for "photogenic" but for paintings?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

Highsmith.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

Woah, I totally have a crush on Patricia Highsmith now. (Not to mention needing to get the number for Gogol's hairdresser...)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I got that tennyson printed on glossy a2 at the national portrait gallery yay, he's on my wall now with small printed pics of nabokov empson lispector beerbohm and this one:

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

Have I posted one of Louise Fitzhugh yet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

I haven't seen this one of David B. Feinberg before, but I like it more than the one on the cover of Queer And Loathing:

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 19:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

I forget if I've done Berrigan:

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

Daniil Kharms, everybody:

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

Seriously?! Is he the anti-Gogol?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 03:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

Ha! He may well be, though I have to admit that I really like that photo. Just imagine that guy reading those stories for you.

Anyhoo, let's throw in August Strindberg, to up the handsome ratio of the thread:

I'm not sure what's going on with his tie.

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

David Goodis, possibly the most neurotic crime novelist ever (and that's saying something)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

I know he's already on here, but I had to share my fav pic of Kurt

― J. Lamphere (WatchMeJumpStart), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

William Maxwell

(This picture accompanied John Updike's article about the man)

― Øystein, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hannah Weiner.

― Casuistry, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

If that didn't work:

― Casuistry, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

I always liked this Kerouac shot

― krakow, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

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