Your favorite portraits of your favorite authors!

[Jeremydav]

I've always loved the way authors look. Don't know what it is, but something about knowing how the man or woman appeared while reading their book is important to me. To kickstart this thread, I leave something for StLukesGuild:

[Kyriakos]

There is this, of Kafka. Too bad that he thought he looked like a freak at that age:

[weltanschauung]

[Seasider]

Hope this works. Virginia Woolf as a young woman.

[Patrick_Bateman]

Vlad Nab

[hanzklein]

I like this picture of Erasmus writing, it just communicates that Renaissance feeling.

[Pecksie]

I can't find it anywhere else, so I'll just attach a book cover featuring it --- 'it' being Edward E. Williams's lovely sketch of Shelley.

A welcome relief from the ugly (and ubiquitous) portrait by Amelia Curran.

Ah, why didn't he make it to the photograph age!

[Gregory Samsa]

Kafka on the shore and as a little boy




Camus, genius!

[Gregory Samsa]

I also love this picture.


Top row (left to right): Jacques Lacan, Cecile Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louis Leiris, Pablo Picasso, Fanie de Campan, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, Brassai
Bottom row: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Abier

[Seasider]

Another favourite of mine... James Thurber

[Alexander III]

[Kyriakos]

I wonder where Heteronym is

Anyway, i shall post this on his behalf:



Fernando Pessoa

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A few that I admire:

Cervantes:



Hugo:



Goldsmith:




Scott:



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[The Comedian]

Mine

(My all-time favorite):Edward Abbey and R. Crumb (with pistol)



Living author: Barry Lopez



The iconic Thoreau:

[weltanschauung]

I've always loved the way authors look. Don't know what it is, but something about knowing how the man or woman appeared while reading their book is important to me. To kickstart this thread, I leave something for StLukesGuild:

james maynard keenan, is that you?