Pictures of Writers

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (556 of them)
my dogg shakespeare
http://www.edinformatics.com/great_thinkers/219px-Shakespeare.jpg

ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.svejkcentral.com/images/Jaroslav%20Hasek.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Beckett, waiting:
http://lib.ru/PXESY/BEKETT/Beckett.gif

ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Tatiana Tolstoya

http://img.rosbalt.ru/doc/photos/F1040006_1012.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Lester Bangs

Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Henry Green

http://home.freeuk.com/jons/bernadet/page048.JPG

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

thomas pynchon

j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the richardson v. fielding BEEF was the 18th century version of the jay-z/nas or the 50/ja-rule beefs!

http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/r/samuel-richardson-200x304.jpg

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/fldgh/fielding.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

and lest we forget:

http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pounhunter.jpg

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This photo of Nathan Englander is terrific: he looks like his band just got a slot opening for Temple of the Dog. His hair is shorter now.

http://www.insideout.org/documentaries/jerusalem/images/englander_big.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Playing bass, maybe, one would find Brian Evenson:

http://fc2.org/evenson/evenson.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Steven Millhauser looks like he writes:

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1997/fiction/bio/millhauser.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Michel Tournier

http://www.academie-goncourt.fr/img/tournier_260wh.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lorrie Moore plays with her hair:

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/feb/02-07-97/photos/fileartsmoore.gif

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

William Maxwell

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1480000/images/_1482701_maxwell150.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

CURSE YOU BLOUNT.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_house.jpg

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/pics/ondaatje.jpg

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony Powell

http://orwell.ru/bio/gallery/img/_0139w.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://sf.emse.fr/AUTHORS/SRUSHDIE/SR-B.GIF

"YOU'RE PUNY FATWA SCARES NOT ME."

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(Geez: I just found a particularly babe-like shot of my workshop prof at a reading. I can't quite bring myself to post it, though.)

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Aldous Huxley:

http://www.huxley.net/ah/aldous-huxley.jpg

Dashing and handsome and damn near blind.

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Henry Miller

http://orwell.ru/bio/gallery/img/_0140w.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthnoy Burgess

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/images/sideimgs/membership.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.internationaler-buchpreis.de/images/chronik/gala2003/jonathan_safran_foer.jpg

"Hi! I'm a pretentious twat!"

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0521/m/foer.jpg

"Oh my! Too many exclamation marks! (See how pomo I am!)"

xpost I know what you mean nabisco, there was a prof at my school I thought about putting on the philosopher's thread, but weirdness ensued.

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rantpix/lewis.jpg

One of the neatest things I've observed were teenaged girls smoking cigarettes behind the Sauk Centre post office.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Jorge Luis Borges

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/velez/FL380/borges.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gee, Lee, is that Elijah Wood?"

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Man. Safran Foer really is begging to be punched in the face, isn't he?

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Italo Calvino

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mexiqueculture/imagenes/n6-calvino.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(And yeah, Lee, weirdness plus if I posted this pic it would seem like I was doing it for very prurient reasons.)

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you look like - märz zwei tausend und fünf

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/fmiller4.jpg

"Comics aren't just for kids anymore!"

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Robertson Davies

http://www.canadianheritage.org/images/regular/20999.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Raymond Queneau:

http://www.ville-lehavre.fr/decouvrir/patrimoine/histoire/images/queneau.gif

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

An interesting self-portrait:

http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/092702/images/plath_Self-portrait.jpg

sugarpants: the luscious ingenue (sugarpants), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

My new comics crush:

http://www.titanbooks.com/images/books/creators/brian_k_vaughan.jpg

BKV you shexy beasht!

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoah: who'd have guessed David Mitchell looked like this?

http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1100/mitchell/images/photo.mitchell.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Michel Houellebecq

http://www.bok.bonnier.se/foton/abfoton/jpg/michel_houellebecq_kika.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

John Steinbeck

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

John Steinbeck

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lawrence Durrell

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

God I hate the sight of Hemingway's fat head.

The web offers me no pictures of William Goyen! But you can see his widow every week on Everybody Loves Raymond.

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dorothy Parker:

http://www.maup.nl/fav/parker.gif

I always liked how happy she seems in this photo.

sugarpants: the luscious ingenue (sugarpants), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"...last spotted with a smile on her face in 1955."

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarice Lispector:

http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/clarice01.gif

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my. How oddly lovely.

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Juan Rulfo:

http://www.artifara.com/rivista1/images/rulfo2.jpg

And Aimee Bender looks about like you'd think:

http://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/images/headshots/bender.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Marguerite Duras

http://www.leme.pt/biografias/franca/letras/duras.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't mention Parker and not mention her pal, Robert Benchley

http://nrbench.home.mindspring.com/images/chart.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

colson whitehead:

http://www.writenet.org/fiction_writers/images/colin_whitehead.jpg

Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

ring lardner:

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/spink_bios/images/lardner_ring.jpg

Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/spink_bios/images/lardner_ring.jpg

Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Powers

Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)


http://www.desertdreamsbooks.com/Images/carey.jpg
Jacqueline Carey


http://www.bloomsbury.com/media/clarke10.gif
Susanna Clarke


http://empirezine.com/spotlight/zimmer/zimmer1.jpg
Marion Zimmer Bradley


http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/06/butler2.jpg
Octavia E. Butler

Galatea, Friday, 25 March 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I never realized how much Octavia Butler looks like CCH Pounder.

Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/authphoto_330/3688_budnitz_judy.jpg

Judy Budnitz

L (Leee), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i just love this one of hemingway. he looks so drunk.

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

AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

John Garnder

http://home1.gte.net/tomchat/DadEmailSig.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...
Jewel
http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0694520462.jpg

emilys, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

okay, seriously tho...


http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Dylan_Thomas/images/thomaspic-web.gif
Dylan Thomas looking pretty fine

emilys, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...
he is mine !!!!!

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/16/67/74/moi/di-folco-par-arditti.jpg
Photo : Portrait "Love Supreme" par Arditti, 2001

difolco, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

he is mine !!!!!

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/16/67/74/moi/di-folco-par-arditti.jpg
Photo : Portrait "Love Supreme" par Arditti, 2001

Philippe Di Folco, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Poet -

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/images/downloads/bubbrubb.jpg

Nable Pierce, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

haha we got FPPed

http://www.metafilter.com/67704/Photographs-of-Authors

get bent, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/readings/images/poets/mhowe.jpg
Marie Howe

http://arliquidodois.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/wszymborska.jpg
Wislawa Szymborska

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/writers/ammons.jpg
A.R. Ammons A+++++


Goldbarthz with lazerz pewpew

bnw, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://poetryfoundation.org/images/features/Goldbarth015.gif

bnw, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:42 (eighteen years ago)

Roland Barthes

http://palavraguda.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/roland_barthes.jpg

strgn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

David Markson

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/08/books/mark190.jpg

strgn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.panoramica.be/panoramica16/jpegs/roberto-bolano.jpg

jim, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:20 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

Anne Sexton o_O

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/anne-sexton.jpg

Office Tebow (Leee), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

One of my favorite author photos, and one of my favorite Avedon photos. W.H. Auden:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XW3JnYog0h0/TXT5E_lOWeI/AAAAAAAACP4/73kDI4gY3Lc/s1600/e5Q80ueuViw44eokukvP2BsSo1_500.png

"Flashy...hip" (Eazy), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

Brian Friel:

http://www.edinburghguide.com/files/images/brian_friel.preview.jpg

"Flashy...hip" (Eazy), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:41 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...
three weeks pass...

Tolstoy:
http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/letters_1-092916.jpg

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:05 (nine years ago)

one month passes...
one year passes...

Tom Wolfe (RIP):
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5afb06cbfe9489434c2d380b/master/pass/Gopnik-Tom-Wolfe-Postscript.jpg

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:22 (eight years ago)

the big man himself (Thomas Bernhard)

https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/bernhard.jpg

devvvine, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:30 (eight years ago)

https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw57990/Anita-Brookner.jpg

Anita Brookner

soref, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:39 (eight years ago)

Another R.I.P.:
http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/philip-roth-yaddo.jpg

ArchCarrier, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:21 (eight years ago)

six months pass...

https://images.nrc.nl/sX-2owX7qVlvHx0mPsYKkazp9iE=/1920x/filters:no_upscale()/s3/static.nrc.nl/images/gn4/stripped/data36716422-40377a.jpg
Annet Schaap (Dutch writer of children's books)

ArchCarrier, Thursday, 29 November 2018 08:33 (seven years ago)

six months pass...

Iris Murdoch:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/26/books/24book-murdoch-print/24book-murdoch1-jumbo.jpg

ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:21 (six years ago)

three years pass...

He's already been posted but this look is worth seeing again. Wyndham Lewis.

https://www.oswaldmosley.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Percy-Wyndham-Lewis.jpg

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 April 2023 11:05 (three years ago)

The great man himself, Henry Green, apparently having just given up on whatever repairs he was carrying out.

https://www.evelynwaugh.org.uk/styled-72/files/evdt8jouq0025uyqgzeycpoia_thumb_c7d9.jpg

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 April 2023 11:09 (three years ago)

nine months pass...

Writers at Work

ArchCarrier, Friday, 26 January 2024 10:33 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.