Favorite author photos and portraits

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This thread is essentially for posting pictures your really like of authors (not necessarily authors you like, but it couldn't hurt)
The reason I'm even starting this is because I just stumbled upon this lovely picture of GK Chesterton:
ihttp://www.dur.ac.uk/martin.ward/gkc/pictures/chesterton-2.jpg

I'm sorry if this thread is considered too flimsy for this forum, but it seemed silly to move it to ILE instead.
Those of you wondering how to post pictures that you've found online: just write "i", immediately followed by the address to the image, such as ihttp://www.website.com/image.gif

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh, it's somewhat embarrassing that I'm unable to do it myself!

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 10 September 2004 06:42 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/b/lord-byron-190x257.jpg
Interesting for the awareness of "image" that he wanted to project.
(Oystein, there are size limits on the i tag, it's not you!)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I own a fridge magnet with that Byron image. Levels of absurdity.

― Tinka, Friday, 10 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Twain
http://www.coldbacon.com/pics/twain.jpg

― Mr. Jaggers, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://mrs.umn.edu/~deaneb/images/joyce.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope this works... I love this bastard (great book too btw):

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Crap. I'm computer illiterate (Stalks back to cage in her dunce cap.)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Who was it?

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It was Kingsley Amis on the cover of The King's English. Sigh.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fantasticfictionimages.co.uk/images/x0/x1441.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAWWW! Thank you. Neat, it's bigger than the one I was trying to post anyway. Do the addresses of postable images all end in .gif?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No, in fact I posted a jpg of Joyce just a few posts ago.

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nyerg. Well, I'm computer illiterate... but at least I'm trying. Can you imagine the spinning-in-his-grave old Kingsley's doing over the Bush campaign? When the candidate's PROS include butchering American English... poor old dead pedant. We'll have to channel him.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 10 September 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/pynchon_small.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 11 September 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Alternately:

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

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Saturday, 11 September 2004 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You also can't use IMG tags, you have to use ihttp.

http://www.nautilus.tv/9611it/letture/perec.jpg

I had a poster of this up in my room when I was living at home, and it freaked my mother out.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Hemingway

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

If I remember correctly, IMG tags were allowed on this board some time back (before the planned outrage?). Anyways, here's Hemingway:
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/h/ernest-hemingway-190x250.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, most tags are no longer allowed.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I have too much time
http://tinypic.com/4qcg3

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://tinypic.com/4qgc9

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 11 September 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.leesfeest.nl/img/enid2.gif

― SRH (Skrik), Sunday, 12 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2003/jun/league/moore.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://digilander.libero.it/bepi/images/vonne-md.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 12 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeffrey Eugenides
http://www.daserste.de/cmspix/druckfrisch_buch/11050349833.jpg
Yann Martel
http://www.weblokam.com/news/international/images/oct/yann_martel.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

That Tom Robbins one is really improved by the Hell's Angel note.
That Perec picture is great too! I saw a different picture of him a few months ago that really made me like him, since he had a nice black cat on his shoulders that reminded me of my ol' pal Fjodor (who unfortunately ran into trouble with a motorist back in March)

Man Ray took some good ones too. The one of Proust on his death bed makes me feel creepy just for looking at it though.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/images/m/05333301.jpg (err, not shown directly, in case there's some here who'd rather not see it)

Oh, and an image that I was introduced to by this very board:
http://mrs.umn.edu/~deaneb/images/woolf.jpg

And on a sillier note... If we mix the Byron picture with Eugenides, we get Lermontov?
[image deleted due to malware warning]

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

rupert brooke

http://else.marie.vedel.pedersen.person.emu.dk/images/Rupert2.gif

a film version of his life would probably be doomed to star hugh grant.

― erik, Sunday, 12 September 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sylvia Plath (rowr):
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/jpegs/plath1500.jpg

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 13 September 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, the Perec photo with the cat is also classic:

http://www2.iap.fr/users/esposito/Perec.gif

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 13 September 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

pierre loti, he was quite mad

http://www.photo.fr/portfolios/therond/photos/therond9.jpg

― eriik, Monday, 13 September 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess. ;D Chris -- who is THAT???

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't do it either. Otherwise, I'd send you pictures of Leslie Norris and Loren Eiseley.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 13 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

With the kitty? It's Georges Perec. I don't know what the kitty's name was.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Graves
http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~rschumak/graves1.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

WH Auden
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~tan/Britten/auden.gif

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.yenra.com/quotations/albert-camus.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Wilde! (not posting directly)
http://www.zweitausendeins.de/Presse/Media/Wilde.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeti!
http://tinypic.com/520si

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Two Smoking Photos...

I've got this Beckett 8”x10” on top of one of my bookcases, and it’s one of my favorite author photos ever:
http://i4.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/42/4f/6f_1.JPG

Perhaps my second-favorite Didion photo is this (although the one I truly love has to be on the front of the Modern Library edition of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”):
http://www.hermeticabooks.com/Inventory/000917_2.jpg

- Jeremy R.

― Jeremy Rice, Monday, 13 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

And of course the ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/images/chair.gif

― Jeremy Rice, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://trishymouse.net/images/gwen.jpg

― equinox, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pierre Loti should be blown up to 4x6 feet and hung on the wall in every AP English classroom as a warning.

what can happen if you immerse yourself in the fine arts.

― clellie, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

http://joueb.com/dart/images/stupeur.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Samuel Beckett
http://www.beckettsirishpub.com/img/sbeckett_img/beckett1.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

What about the authors who don't look good or eccentric? Don't they deserve a place here? Let's see...
Julian Barnes
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/b/julian-barnes-210x330.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Stephen King!
http://tinypic.com/52sle
http://tinypic.com/52slu
http://tinypic.com/52sm0
http://tinypic.com/52smf

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Somehow, I've always liked how T.C. Boyle manages to do a rock-star-of-books pose and still come off like he's having fun with it:

http://www.davidstrick.com/Still%20More/Still%20More%201/images_still%20more%201/tc_boyle_frame.jpg

― Joseph J. Finn, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einst_tagore.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 21 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You do know what Balzac is doing under that robe, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

gary shteyngart is pretty good

http://www.seattleweekly.com/graphics/features/0321/gary.jpg

― Guy, Thursday, 16 September 2004 04:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Gurdjieff
http://tinypic.com/5bv36

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred -- I love that Nothomb photo too!! How did you like the book?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 17 September 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I have two of her books with me, Le Robert des noms propres and Stupeur et tremblements, but haven't read any of them as yet.

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

In memoriam:
http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellows_pictures/r-donaghy-m.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred, be ready for some yummy creepfulness.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, okay!

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.npg.si.edu/img2/cb/hometru.jpg

http://www.url.it/ambienti/libri/scrittori/img2/truman.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/gibbon.jpg

Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It bothers me that I can't find a scan of this wonderful picture I recently saw of Agnar Mykle.
O well, I did stumble upon this nice one of James Branch Cabell today, which somehow seems SO right:
ihttp://www.library.vcu.edu/jbcdocs/speccoll/images/scavan01.jpg

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Anais, what an ego! Here's to you!
http://www.jaquedeutudoerradomesmo.blogger.com.br/Anais%20Nin.jpg

― mickey (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 1 October 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Gee, none of Erica Jong?

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 6 March 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/multimedia/archive/00165/bj_rneboe_br_d_165439a.jpg
(Jens Bjørneboe)

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 1 May 2005 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dashing Tennyson:

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/tenn1.jpg

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I could find the photo of Empson with his amazing bare-chinned superbeard! So awesome.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

This one, GP?

http://www.poetsforum.com/images/poets/empson.jpg

I have a feeling you'd approve of this one, too:

http://www.sagarana.net/rivista/numero11/images/clarice_lispector_6.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Herodotus:

http://www.crystalinks.com/herodotus.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

This was a fun thread from ILE: Pictures of Writers

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 14 November 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/dmg/moderne/ibsen/ibsen.jpg

The master.

― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Someone pointed out to me that every picture of Gogol looks fantastic.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chabrieres/halloffame/img/gogol.jpg

(a) Someone prove this theory wrong.
(b) Is there a word for "photogenic" but for paintings?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Highsmith.

http://mirrorimageorigin.collegepublisher.com/media/paper328/stills/x14q9q60.jpg

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Woah, I totally have a crush on Patricia Highsmith now. (Not to mention needing to get the number for Gogol's hairdresser...)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I got that tennyson printed on glossy a2 at the national portrait gallery yay, he's on my wall now with small printed pics of nabokov empson lispector beerbohm and this one:

http://www.entropic-empire.com/journal/030207_feu_barthes.jpg

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

Have I posted one of Louise Fitzhugh yet?

http://www.lookingglassreview.com/Louise_Fitzhugh_150x172.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:20 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen this one of David B. Feinberg before, but I like it more than the one on the cover of Queer And Loathing:

http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biof1/fein1.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/fearing/fearing.jpg

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I forget if I've done Berrigan:

http://falsedawn.blogspot.com/berrigan.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Daniil Kharms, everybody:
http://img.allpoetry.com/images/custom/GypsyDreamer/kharms.jpg

― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Seriously?! Is he the anti-Gogol?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 5 January 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Ha! He may well be, though I have to admit that I really like that photo. Just imagine that guy reading those stories for you.

Anyhoo, let's throw in August Strindberg, to up the handsome ratio of the thread:
http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/dmg/moderne/strind/STRIND1.jpg
I'm not sure what's going on with his tie.

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 7 January 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.studioglyphic.com/images/blog/strindbergandhelium.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:01 (twenty years ago)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=david+goodis/v=2/SID=w/l=IVS/SIG=12c4hcgeo/EXP=1137025587/*-http%3A//www.unionsverlag.com/portrait/big/GoodisDavid.jpg

David Goodis, possibly the most neurotic crime novelist ever (and that's saying something)

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/listes.sf/vonnegut/03kurt.gif

I know he's already on here, but I had to share my fav pic of Kurt

― J. Lamphere (WatchMeJumpStart), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

William Maxwell
http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/09/08/p465/080908_r17704_p465.jpg

(This picture accompanied John Updike's article about the man)

― Øystein, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://bp2.blogger.com/_PtSRtBj4dCM/SEWx2rxdvHI/AAAAAAAAAAU/TyPZLJuAmpY/s1600-h/hannah+weiner.jpg

Hannah Weiner.

― Casuistry, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

If that didn't work:

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v192/193/35/25740181192/n25740181192_759418_6824.jpg

― Casuistry, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

I always liked this Kerouac shot

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/coenhead/jack_kerouac.jpg

― krakow, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

Robert van Gulik with a good friend.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Van-Gulik-and-Bubu-page-109.png

(His story "The Morning of the Monkey" has the dedication "Dedicated to the memory of my good friend the gibbon Bubu, died at Port Dickson, Malaya, 12 July 1962")

― Øystein, Saturday, 17 May 2014 13:46 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

kind of can't bear the mood conjured by this image of stephen shore

http://stephenshore.net/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/stephen_shore.jpg

― schlump, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:18 (twelve years ago)

http://www.matacandelas.com/img/Samuel-Beckett-2.jpg

― dow, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:04 (twelve years ago)

Considered posting this in the 1P3 "What do you wish you looked like" thread: http://thenewinquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jane-Bowles.jpg

― one way street, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:18 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://40.media.tumblr.com/a7355fcd43aafd3b5b9a911a462808c9/tumblr_mz51gnM2uw1tnpbluo1_500.jpg

rené daumal

― no lime tangier, Monday, 31 August 2015 11:10 (eleven years ago)

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/oliver-sachs.jpg
Oliver Sacks (RIP)

― July retires into a shrubbery. (Øystein), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:16 (eleven years ago)

damn

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:21 (eleven years ago)

Also https://rhystranter.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/oliver-sacks-young-motorcycle.jpg

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 03:04 (eleven years ago)

ten months pass...

Helen deWitt

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2016/07/08/magazine/11-dewitt-2.nocrop.w529.h708.jpg

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:20 (ten years ago)

Imogen Binnie

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Imogen-Binnie.jpg

Tove Jansson

http://finland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3427-jansson2_b-jpg-350x355.jpg

― one way street, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:39 (ten years ago)

That Tove is good. I like the apparently semi-transparent shape with a skeleton inside in the bgrnd, not sure what it is.

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:57 (ten years ago)

shadows on a mannequin, maybe?

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:58 (ten years ago)

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