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)

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: