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Léopold Sédar Senghor

http://www.lefigaro.fr/dossiers/portes_afrique/var/dakar/images/senghor.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

José Donoso

http://www.exodusltd.com/images/donoso.jpg

Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"the venerable bede" - this is the kind of baby-naming i can fully get behind

jones (actual), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Chaucer:

http://www.request.org.uk/main/history/middle/chaucer.jpg

f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Henry James

http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Henry_James.jpg

Faulkner said of him, "One of the nicest old ladies I ever met."

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Sir Richard Francis Burton

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/images/burton_r.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Mary Jane Gold

http://www.fondationresistance.com/actualites/images/gold.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Françoise Chandernagor

http://www.academie-goncourt.fr/img/chandernagor_260wh.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Samuel Johnson

http://www.thrale.com/history/english/hester_and_henry/johnson_1775_by_reynolds.jpg

"Nobody but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Jane and Paul Bowles

On their way to meet up with Zelda and F. Scott at the Attractive Literary Figures Conference.

(Ooh, Delmore Schwartz is another cute one....)

(Did you know that Neil Gaiman wrote one of the earliest books about That Band I Talk About All The Time?)

(Yay Bourdain!)

(Robert Christgau looks every bit as pathetic and sad as I thought he'd look.) (Yeah, I hate his guts.)

(Ok, back to others... yay Lorca!)

(I'll get back to the rest of them when I can.)

Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Jane and Paul Bowles

On their way to meet up with Zelda and F. Scott at the Attractive Literary Figures Conference.

Maybe, but afterwards they're going to the fux0red-up couples conference to get their awards.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Eric Blair George Orwell

http://www.lewesliveliterature.co.uk/autumn03/George-Orwell.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Graham Greene

http://www.englishstory.by.ru/images/portrets/graham-greene.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(Robert Christgau looks every bit as pathetic and sad as I thought he'd look.) (Yeah, I hate his guts.)

You're a very nice person.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Evelyn Waugh

http://todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/w/evelyn-waugh-200x300.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Elizabeth Bishop

http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/bishop/images/bishop.jpg

Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

François Mauriac

http://www.occitanie.org/occitans/photos1/mauriac1.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Elizabeth Bowen

http://www.violetbooks.com/images-weird/ebowen-port.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Angela Thirkell

http://www.angelathirkellsociety.com/images/atface.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Jean Genet and James Baldwin

http://www.theatregerardphilipe.com/programme/photos/genet6.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Ishmael Reed
http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/reed_ishmael.jpg

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Joe orton

http://www.jrp.dial.pipex.com/PG/images/royal_court/orton/joe_orton.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Joe Orton

http://www.jrp.dial.pipex.com/PG/images/royal_court/orton/joe_orton.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Mario Benedetti!

http://www.edscuola.it/archivio/interlinea/images/benedetti.jpg

Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Iceberg Slim
http://www.hiphopflow.com/archive/06/iceberg_slim.jpg

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

John Osbourne

http://www.jrp.dial.pipex.com/PG/images/john_osborne.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Bill Buford
http://www.gawker.com/archives/NewYorker-thumb.jpg

Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Ralph Ellison

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9908/images/ellison.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Richard Wright

http://www.itvs.org/showphotos/richard_wright_black_boy.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2004/spring/26b.jpg

Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Langston Hughes

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/images/faces/hughes_150.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

haha think of all these rinkydink literature websites that are like "wtf is with our traffic??"

f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

f--gg, I've been thinking the same thing all day. I've been trying to hit the universities if I can.

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Zora Neale Hurston

http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/hurston_a.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Bharati Mukherjee

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/mukhrg1.gif

f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Umberto Eco

http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/Umberto_Eco.jpg

f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Edward Abbey

http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/archives/abbey-interview.jpg

gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Jhumpa Lahiri

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/09/30/sprj.caf03.jhumpa.lahiri/story.author.jpg

f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Joan Didion

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/1998/may98/980524/sem-joandidion.jpg

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

I know Jack was done upthread but this was the only photo of George Sterling I could find.

ihttp://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/Bancroft/images/z072.jpg

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

Andrew Delbanco

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/art/delbancop.jpg

gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link

that bitch Congreve

http://www89.homepage.villanova.edu/scott.black/images/congreve.jpg

f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link

T.C. Boyle

http://www.tcboyle.com/public_htm/images/tcboyle6.jpg

Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Robinson Jeffers

http://www.photocollect.com/jpegs/jeffers.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Alexander Pope (looking kinda stipey)

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

f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I was in one of Mukherjee's classes!

And while on the subject of UCB authors whose classes I attended:

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/images/kingston.jpg

(She doesn't like hip hop because rappers say "bitch" and "whore.")

And some other guy, I don't remember his name now.

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Robert A. Heinlein

http://www.pulpless.com/jneil/photos/JneilwithHeinlein.jpg

gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Joaquin Miller

http://www.santaanariverpress.com/images/miller_mug.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Rabindranath Tagore

ihttp://photos1.blogger.com/img/49/1071/640/Rabindranath%20Tagore.1.jpg

gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link


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