Pictures of Writers

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

http://www.lama-web.cz/llk/images/muzeum/stein1.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Edmond et Jules, les frères Goncourt

http://www.academie-goncourt.fr/img/freres_2m.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

H. G. Wells

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/w/pics/wells-hg.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Jules Verne

http://www.wiesibox.de/karlmay/bilder/verne.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

http://www.onlinekunst.de/februarzwei/24/doppelportrait_grimm.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The relatively ignored but hugely influential Charles Perrault

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fr/thumb/f/fe/150px-Charles_perrault.jpg

Who wrote, amongst other things:

Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Le petit Poucet
Cendrillon
La Belle au bois dormant
Le chat botté

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

My favorite Virginia Woolf pic

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/authors/2004/08/11/woolfsquare11.jpg

Jessa (Jessa), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree, Jessa.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Jean de la Fontaine

http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/j/Jean_De_La_Fontaine.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné.

http://www.herodote.net/Images/SevigneRobertNanteuil.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière

http://www.etab.ac-caen.fr/malherbe/SiteCLEF03/biblioth%E8que/m/Moli%E8re/MolDoss/moliere.jpg

A great playwright and actor, he collapsed on stage during a performance of Le Malade imagainaire (The Hypochondriac) and died several hours later.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Jean Racine

http://scholar.oit.unc.edu/roml/french/fren61.nsf/ID/racine1/$file/racine.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Gimme some geek love!

http://www.stephenking.com/assets/gallery_images/RBR.jpg
Stephen King rocks out with the Rock Bottom Remainders

Rowantree the Godless Pooka, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

http://www.ac-versailles.fr/etabliss/clg-guimoc-gennevilliers/BEAUMARCHAIS.JPG

If ever you want to read an incredible story, read the story of this man's life.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/lem.gif

Bendy Doorhole, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky (off to see Stalker tonight BTW)

ihttp://artefact.lib.ru/library/authors/strugatsky.jpg

lock robster (robster), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Calvin Trillin

http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/images/authors/A0140.jpg

Mary Wollstonecraft

http://www.benthamlinks.com/Godwin/wollstonecraft01.jpg

Mad Mary Lamb, stabbed her mother to death, went on to write children's books

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/marylamb.jpg

Jessa (Jessa), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.gregmartinphoto.com/portraits/authors/DavidB_BW_5a_lg.jpg
David Bezmozgis, my new author crush

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Doris Lessing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1500000/images/_1504733_doris_lessing_150.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

http://elsabloggs.home.mindspring.com/loy.gif

Mina Loy

Bendy Doorhole, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Louis de Bernieres

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1285000/images/_1285835_bernieres_150.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

http://www.elpais.es/fotos/personas/ign/0/151_58.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

J.R.R. Tolkien

http://www.kevincmurphy.com/tolkien.jpg

Peg Kerr, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.zweitausendeins.de/www_bilder/1963.GIF

William Gaddis.

Bendy Doorhole, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

bookslut loves us

anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I love her too. Her site's been on my favorites for a couple of years at least.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

John Galsworthy

http://www.nobelpreis.org/english/Literatur/images/galsworthy.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Paul Eluard

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

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Carlos Fuentes

http://www.estrelladigital.es/031110/fotos/Cul/10fuentes.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Henrik Ibsen

http://www.studiobuehne-leverkusen.de/graphics/ibsen1.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Rudyard Kipling

http://www.imagesfromthepast.com/Books/kipling.JPG

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

E. M. Forster

http://www.emforster.de/pics/pics/forster_young.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Henri Beyle, dit Stendhal

http://www.armance.com/Images/stendhal3web.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Antoine Marie Roger de Saint-Exupéry

ihttp://www.prolococaffaro.it/petit_prince/antoine-saint-exupery-03.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0428/kenny.jpg

Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

since someone else tried and failed:


Ursula K. Le Guin
http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2003/UKLbyMarianWoodKolisch.JPG
my favorite Grand Dame of Fantasy/Scifi

Galatea, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Several have failed with the mysterious Ursula.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Tamora Pierce
http://www.northlibertylibrary.org/teens/perks/pic13.jpg

Galatea, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link


Albert Camus


Ikkyu


Zhaungzi

Austin lit (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.northlibertylibrary.org/teens/perks/pic1.jpg
(l. to r.)Vivian Vande Velde, Jennie Garner, Chris Crutcher, and David Lubar.

Galatea, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Basho

ihttp://www.wisdomportal.com/Peace/Basho(188x216).jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

heh, seems Jennie Garner is actually a librarian not an author...*oops*

Galatea, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

ihttp://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/russian/Ruslang/blok/author.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link


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