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Hemingway

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

If I remember correctly, IMG tags were allowed on this board some time back (before the planned outrage?). Anyways, here's Hemingway:
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/h/ernest-hemingway-190x250.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, most tags are no longer allowed.

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

I have too much time
http://tinypic.com/4qcg3

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://tinypic.com/4qgc9

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.leesfeest.nl/img/enid2.gif

― SRH (Skrik), Sunday, 12 September 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2003/jun/league/moore.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/images/vonne-md.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Jeffrey Eugenides
http://www.daserste.de/cmspix/druckfrisch_buch/11050349833.jpg
Yann Martel
http://www.weblokam.com/news/international/images/oct/yann_martel.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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:
http://mrs.umn.edu/~deaneb/images/woolf.jpg

And on a sillier note... If we mix the Byron picture with Eugenides, we get Lermontov?
[image deleted due to malware warning]

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

rupert brooke

http://else.marie.vedel.pedersen.person.emu.dk/images/Rupert2.gif

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

― erik, Sunday, 12 September 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Sylvia Plath (rowr):
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/jpegs/plath1500.jpg

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

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

http://www2.iap.fr/users/esposito/Perec.gif

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

pierre loti, he was quite mad

http://www.photo.fr/portfolios/therond/photos/therond9.jpg

― eriik, Monday, 13 September 2004 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Robert Graves
http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~rschumak/graves1.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

WH Auden
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~tan/Britten/auden.gif

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.yenra.com/quotations/albert-camus.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeti!
http://tinypic.com/520si

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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:
http://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/42/4f/6f_1.JPG

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”):
http://www.hermeticabooks.com/Inventory/000917_2.jpg

- Jeremy R.

― Jeremy Rice, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

And of course the ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/images/chair.gif

― Jeremy Rice, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― equinox, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

http://joueb.com/dart/images/stupeur.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Samuel Beckett
http://www.beckettsirishpub.com/img/sbeckett_img/beckett1.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Stephen King!
http://tinypic.com/52sle
http://tinypic.com/52slu
http://tinypic.com/52sm0
http://tinypic.com/52smf

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einst_tagore.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

― Rob Hinchcliffe, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link

ok that didn't work - one more go:

― Hinchcliffe, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Here he is:

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

Grrrr.

http://www.thechildrensbookshop.com.au/img/SNICKET__LEMONY.jpg

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

For a diptych with Plath:

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

http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/baym/255/dickensn.jpg

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

http://users.ev1.net/~alternity/books/mccullers.jpg
Carson McCullers. She kind of scares me there, but in a good way.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/images/beckett_photos/buster.gif

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

(That's Buster Keaton and Beckett, btw)

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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

BICYCLE!!!

― MebbeImPaul, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Yann Martel is kind of hott.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Wodehouse:
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/w/pg-wodehouse-200x300.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Tom Wolfe:

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

― RR (restandrec), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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This was a fun thread from ILE: Pictures of Writers

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

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/dmg/moderne/ibsen/ibsen.jpg

The master.

― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

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

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chabrieres/halloffame/img/gogol.jpg

(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 (eighteen years ago) link

Highsmith.

http://mirrorimageorigin.collegepublisher.com/media/paper328/stills/x14q9q60.jpg

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

one 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:

http://www.entropic-empire.com/journal/030207_feu_barthes.jpg

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

Have I posted one of Louise Fitzhugh yet?

http://www.lookingglassreview.com/Louise_Fitzhugh_150x172.jpg

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

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:

http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof1/fein1.jpg

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

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/fearing/fearing.jpg

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

I forget if I've done Berrigan:

http://falsedawn.blogspot.com/berrigan.jpg

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

Daniil Kharms, everybody:
http://img.allpoetry.com/images/custom/GypsyDreamer/kharms.jpg

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

Seriously?! Is he the anti-Gogol?

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

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:
http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/dmg/moderne/strind/STRIND1.jpg
I'm not sure what's going on with his tie.

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.studioglyphic.com/images/blog/strindbergandhelium.jpg

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

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=david+goodis/v=2/SID=w/l=IVS/SIG=12c4hcgeo/EXP=1137025587/*-http%3A//www.unionsverlag.com/portrait/big/GoodisDavid.jpg

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

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

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/listes.sf/vonnegut/03kurt.gif

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 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

William Maxwell
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/09/08/p465/080908_r17704_p465.jpg

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

― Øystein, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link

http://bp2.blogger.com/_PtSRtBj4dCM/SEWx2rxdvHI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TyPZLJuAmpY/s1600-h/hannah+weiner.jpg

Hannah Weiner.

― Casuistry, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link

If that didn't work:

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v192/193/35/25740181192/n25740181192_759418_6824.jpg

― Casuistry, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link

I always liked this Kerouac shot

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/coenhead/jack_kerouac.jpg

― krakow, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Robert van Gulik with a good friend.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Van-Gulik-and-Bubu-page-109.png

(His story "The Morning of the Monkey" has the dedication "Dedicated to the memory of my good friend the gibbon Bubu, died at Port Dickson, Malaya, 12 July 1962")

― Øystein, Saturday, 17 May 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...

kind of can't bear the mood conjured by this image of stephen shore

http://stephenshore.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/stephen_shore.jpg

― schlump, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link

http://www.matacandelas.com/img/Samuel-Beckett-2.jpg

― dow, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link

Considered posting this in the 1P3 "What do you wish you looked like" thread: http://thenewinquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jane-Bowles.jpg

― one way street, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link

eleven months pass...

http://40.media.tumblr.com/a7355fcd43aafd3b5b9a911a462808c9/tumblr_mz51gnM2uw1tnpbluo1_500.jpg

rené daumal

― no lime tangier, Monday, 31 August 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/oliver-sachs.jpg
Oliver Sacks (RIP)

― July retires into a shrubbery. (Øystein), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link

damn

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link

Also https://rhystranter.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/oliver-sacks-young-motorcycle.jpg

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link

ten months pass...

Helen deWitt

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2016/07/08/magazine/11-dewitt-2.nocrop.w529.h708.jpg

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link

Imogen Binnie

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Imogen-Binnie.jpg

Tove Jansson

http://finland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3427-jansson2_b-jpg-350x355.jpg

― one way street, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link

That Tove is good. I like the apparently semi-transparent shape with a skeleton inside in the bgrnd, not sure what it is.

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:57 (seven years ago) link

shadows on a mannequin, maybe?

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:58 (seven years ago) link

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