Pictures of Writers

Ellison: "I'm Harlan Ellison. I write science fiction."
me, shocked: "No! Whoda thunk of it!"
Ellison: "Except I don't like to call it science fiction, because I'm too high-minded about it."
me, shocked: "And you're a bit of a prick. Man, you woulda had me fooled."
Ellison: "Hey, you wanna smoke some grass and go to a key party?"
me: "Okay."

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Denton Welch http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/LOUTTIT%20WEBSITE/youngDW.JPG

― youn, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Shelley

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/shellym.jpg

Stoker

http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/images/stoker.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.peripheries.net/images/berger.jpg

John Berger finding a new way of seeing.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Lorrie Moore EVER take a bad picture? According to the photos I've seen of her, NO.

Dorothy Parker and Clarice Lispector both look like they could've been either movie stars or models or both. That Aimee Bender looks like she would be a really cool friend to have, though -- this is why I will SO check out her writings, first chance I get!

Favorite photo = one with Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald and family (sorry, can't remember the name of their daughter). They not only look as though they'd lived the lives of Fitzgerald's protagonists, the fact that I now know what they looked like brings a whole new dimension to Fitzgerald's novels. I think.

e.e. cummings is The Man. Robert Frost and Anthony Powell are/were HELLA suave. Anthony Burgess looks like the type of individual to dream up the universe in A Clockwork Orange. William Faulkner -- quick, someone, Photoshop him in a photo with Nick Cave! ;) And... that Houellebecq? Pretty damn cute.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Also:

http://www.illyria.com/tob/images/tob.jpg

Tim O'Brien, known for his novels about the Vietnam War era.

http://www.achuka.co.uk/authorpics/cormier/cormier03.jpg

Robert Cormier, whose novels I devoured when I was a preteen. (Sure, he's not at the level of some of the aforementioned authors, but I think he's just about the finest juvenile author to ever exist.)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

They not only look as though they'd lived the lives of Fitzgerald's protagonists

They kind of did, no "as though" needed!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah. I forgot about those stories I heard right around the time we were studying The Great Gatsby in high school. *laugh* Point taken, Leeeter.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kingsley Amis:

Pulling "Evelyn Waugh" face:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/christopherpriest/jpg/amispic.jpg

Married n Bearded:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim/images/amis_02.jpg

"Christ, not you again":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2001/11/12/bamis112.jpeg

― jim dixon, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit.

Kingsley Amis:
Pulling "Evelyn Waugh" face:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/christopherpriest/jpg/amispic.jpg

Married n Bearded:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim/images/amis_02.jpg

"Christ, not you again":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2001/11/12/bamis112.jpeg

― jim dixon, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Joyce:

http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/James_Joyce.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be more than happy if this thread were just pictures of Auden. A very pleasing face to look at. Far from pretty, but there's just something about the weary knowingness in his expressions.

http://www.theambler.com/images/auden.jpg http://www.islaternura.com/APLAYA/NoEresElUnico/aLETRA/AudenWystanHugh/FOTOSAuden/auden.jpeg http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/710000/images/_710447_auden150.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Blaise Cendrars:

http://www.arquitrave.com/imagenes/blaise2.gif

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wyndham Lewis:

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/lewis_wyndham.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/percywyndhamlewis.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Djuna Barnes:

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/barnes.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Carson McCullers:

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/art_101090015261_1.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hackitectura.net/osfavelados/el_retorno/cyberpunk/kesy_mugshot.jpg

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Some writers of The Great War:
http://www.locksley.com/greatwar/rgraves.jpg
Robert Graves
http://www.theofficenet.com/~jack/arts/sasoon.jpg
Siegfried Sassoon
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/graphics/owen2.jpg
Wilfred Owen

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

William S. Burroughs

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BurroughsWilliam/burr3Med.jpg

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/images/akhmatova/akhmatova1924.jpg
Anna Akhmatova

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

G. K. Chesterton

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/chesterton_gk.jpg

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

H. Rider Haggard

http://files.db3nf.com/pictures/authors/haggard.jpg

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy + Sam:

http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/James_Joyce.jpg

http://www.britannica.com/nobel/art/obeckea001p1.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

H. P. Lovecraft

http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulp/hpl/art/lovecraft.jpg

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack London looking oddly contemporary:

http://www.editorialjuventud.es/img/JackLondon2.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Céline ('Who are you lookin' at?'):

http://www.alalettre.com/Images/celine.jpg

Knut Hamsun (as a tram conductor in Chicago!):

http://www.nb.no/emigrasjon/pictures/no-nb_emidata_E2038_hi.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Two writers who were both lucky not to get shot after WWII!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Alfred Jerry riding a singlespeed:

ihttp://www.antinova.cz/divadlo/jarry.gif

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And here's another one, it's that silly man Ezra Pound:

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/images/raitt2.jpg

(xpost)

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops - Jarry!

http://www.antinova.cz/divadlo/jarry.gif

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently he used to ride around carrying a loaded revolver.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Every bit as bonkers as he looks, it's Georg ('Crazy George') Trakl:

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/stallknechte/trakl.jpg

... somehow I've wandered off in to poets

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, bring Trakl back!

Isidore Ducasse - Comte de Lautreamont:

http://www.math.unifi.it/~caressa/lettere/img/lautreamont.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Gerard de Nerval (lobster sadly out of shot):

http://linant.free.fr/images/nerval.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's a pretty boy then? Novalis wonders why, in 200 years time, a dodgy German prog rock band will steal his name:

http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/sala/images/novalis.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

His bestest krautrock mate, Hoelderlin:

http://www.phil.upenn.edu/~cubowman/fichte/gallery_images/holderlin.jpeg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Another poet and another gey gaupit man, Hugh Macdiarmid:

http://www.nls.uk/writestuff/img/wee-macdiarmid.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Edward Lear, half-owl half-pussycat:

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/learedw.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch:

http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/vfb/vfbimages/Sacher-Masoch_Leopold.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

So... the hair... new paradigm, yeah? Eugène Ionesco in attempt at Nathan Barley style hipsterism...

http://www2.arnes.si/~ceslg7/img/FOTO20032004/Ionesco.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

So... the hair... new paradigm, yeah? Gettin' absurd on our asses is Eugène Ionesco...

http://www2.arnes.si/~ceslg7/img/FOTO20032004/Ionesco.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops!

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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