Pictures of Writers

this is my favorite thread ever in the history of forever. please keep going forever. (and can someone please find that picture of isaac babel that is on the cover of my penguin paperback where he looks like a MORE demented uncle fester? please?)

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lacentral.com/autoresgif/kundera2.jpg

There's somethin' kinda cheeky and wise about Milan Kundera's face.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Mishima
http://www.tomita.net/image/mishima.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.djclark.com/godwin/th70.jpg

Ted Hughes: ladies man, or long suffering psycho-magnet?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Twain, doing his Nietzsche impression (see other thread)
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/twnm003.jpg

Walt Whitman, compulsive fingernail biter
http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/Walt_Whitman.jpg

Walker Percy, charmingly laid back
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ek867/walker.percy.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nathanael West, who left too soon
http://www.alohacriticon.com/images/viajeliterariofotos/nathanaelwest.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Had we but world enough, and time"--Andrew Marvell, desperate for it.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUmarvellA.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
Thomas Gray
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/g/thomas-gray-200x300.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Keats, looking wistful
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/k/john-keats-190x270.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ezra Pound, young and not a little dashing:

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

Ezra Pound, old former Fascist mouthpiece:

http://www.usask.ca/english/page/EP_In_Italy_cover_small.JPG

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tennyson
http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/infopedia/t/tennyson.jpg

whose poem Ulysses never fails to move me:
"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal-temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Bruno Schulz
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/litterature-polonaise/medias/schulz.jpg

Mikhail Bulgakhov
http://www.geocities.com/sgb34/mikhailbulgakov.jpg

― the krza (krza), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

HD (née Hilda Doolittle):

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/image1.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Updike:
http://telosnet.com/dmdodge/veils/images/updike.gif
Given the Simpsons treatment:
http://www.actualidadsimpson.com/famosos/BABF17JohnUpdike.jpg

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Carol Shields

http://lcn.canoe.com/archives/lcn/artsetspectacles/musiquelivres/media/2002/04/20020422-193548-g.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

mayakovsky, the ORIGINAL people's poet!

http://www.esperanto.mv.ru/Usono/Bildaro/Mayakovsky.jpg

http://www.stamprussia.com/1719b.jpg

http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/images/oleg%20art%20images/mayakovsky.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Terry Tempest Williams

http://www.nationalbook.org/graphics/biopics/ttwilliams.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jerzy Kosinski
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/k/jerzy-kosinski-190x288.jpg

Kurt Vonnegut
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/pictures/vonnegut.jpg

E.E. Cummings
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/faces/cummings_ee_01.jpg

Robert Frost
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/modern/jb_modern_frost_2_e.jpg

Walt Whitman
http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/Walt_Whitman.jpg

― weath'D, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://harlanellison.com/heboard/HEnotinleisuresuit.jpg
http://www.themodernword.com/borges/harlan.jpg
http://www.code7r.org/inquiz/images/ellison6.jpg
http://www.whc2000.org/Guests/Harlan_Ellison/a_harlan_jpeg.jpg

― weath'D, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Murasaki Shikibu

http://www3.la.psu.edu/textbooks/480/graphics/ch6/15.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

George Rupp is an author too!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Proust, languidly pondering the futility of desire
http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/antologia/recensioni/images/proust.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mabuse.cl/1448/articles-61436_kane2.jpeg
Pauline Kael

http://www.speakingofstories.org/Author%20Bios/lorrie.jpg
Lorrie Moore

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Chopin
http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/pictures/chopin.jpg

Joseph Conrad
http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/conrad/Joseph_Conrad.gif

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/conrad/Joseph_Conrad.gif

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

a dashing young yeats

http://www.poets.org/bin/poets/wbyeats.jpg

― Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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)

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