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:

http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads2009/2009/04/dante-alighieri-by-marco-menco-web.jpg

:D

[Kyriakos]

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

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bwAHfdJLOJg/TI3fyOVljCI/AAAAAAAABoI/u7psd8E2YoY/s400/kafka.jpg

[weltanschauung]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XA3k9NX86vQ/THVxcBGBEkI/AAAAAAAAHpU/ipzEpjLV0iw/s1600/oscar-wilde1.jpg

[Seasider]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQi3CD7KwyNOMbQzEXnOqyUpgDk92eR1 x7i3L61bzgTpwbai6Wb

Hope this works. Virginia Woolf as a young woman.

[Patrick_Bateman]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fjW363NTv3U/SwnZCnqtwII/AAAAAAAAAEQ/VICAUilYVQo/s1600/nabakov.jpg

Vlad Nab

[hanzklein]

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

http://www.andreascenter.org/images/Erasmus%20-%20Holbein,%20writing,%20web.JPG

[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
http://www.how-2-get-published.com/wp-content/uploads/kafka_beach.jpg

http://betsydevine.com/blog/pictures/KafkaChild.jpg

Camus, genius!

http://thegrammarshack.rachellemnshaw.com/Images/AlbertCamus1946.jpg

[Gregory Samsa]

I also love this picture.

http://www.lacan.com/spart23.jpg
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]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfumWE8LFF4AknR483WJcWW2s3IwUXE UZPP7WpOv3S-1U__ZNL

Another favourite of mine... James Thurber

[Alexander III]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Carjat_Arthur_Rimbaud_1872_n2.jpg


http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/pictures/percy_bysshe_shelley.jpg

http://www.royal-deeside.org.uk/assets/images/byron.JPG

http://www.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/kerouac.gif

[Kyriakos]

I wonder where Heteronym is ;)

Anyway, i shall post this on his behalf:

http://biografia.inf.br/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/personalidades-poetas-portugal-fernando-pessoa-aos-vinte-anos-em-lisboa.jpg

Fernando Pessoa :)

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A few that I admire:

Cervantes:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Cervates_jauregui1.jpg

Hugo:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Victor_Hugo_circa_18801.jpg

Goldsmith:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/240px-Oliver_Goldsmith_by_Sir_Joshua_Reynolds1.jpg


Scott:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/Sir_Walter_Scott_-_Raeburn1.jpg

.

[The Comedian]

Mine

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

http://crapaganda.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ed_abbey_and_r_crumb.jpg

Living author: Barry Lopez
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://rbmiller-photography.com/image.php%3Fid%3D41&imgrefurl=http://rbmiller-photography.com/category.php%3Fid%3D2&usg=__Ka6hPZmW32wzDZnWdhI6Pij5bVU=&h=500&w=503&sz=127&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=eCDkqBM_J_KpRM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbarry%2Blopez%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1424% 26bih%3D688%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=365&ei=89QbTcC9GtSrnAf_wdjjDQ&oei=89QbTcC9GtSrnAf_wdjjDQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=36&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0&tx=31&ty=87


The iconic Thoreau:
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/thoreau.gif

[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:

http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads2009/2009/04/dante-alighieri-by-marco-menco-web.jpg

:D

james maynard keenan, is that you?

[laymonite]

Not my favorite author; but definitely my favorite author's portrait!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BOCzQPexnY8/TQteayEqFtI/AAAAAAAABLQ/3zVchr2aMxk/s1600/pynchon_house.jpg

[Seasider]

He is not my favourite writer, but I do like the portrait.
W. Somerset Maugham by Graham Sutherland


http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmXZbeK5LZlk3Fg5lYX8Wu5tvrB4_cN PeEfjatb9L-gOGP8fqx

[Emil Miller]

He is not my favourite writer, but I do like the portrait.
W. Somerset Maugham by Graham Sutherland


http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRmXZbeK5LZlk3Fg5lYX8Wu5tvrB4_cN PeEfjatb9L-gOGP8fqx

This picture wasn't liked by Maugham, who said it made him look like a Chinese brothel keeper. For a number of years it was on display in the Tate gallery in London but as society painter Sutherland has fallen out of favour, it is now stored in the basement.
Sutherland's painting of Winston Churchill was similarly disliked by the sitter, whose remark need not be repeated here, although on Churchill's death, his widow burnt it in what Sutherland described as an act of wanton vandalism.

[Kyriakos]

The greek early 20th century novelist Penelope Delta:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__FFVL7M1i6E/SxMujdVvieI/AAAAAAAAKkY/KVvDa1t2Z9Y/s1600/Penelope+Delta.jpg

One of her short stories is a favourite of mine :)

[weltanschauung]

Not my favorite author; but definitely my favorite author's portrait!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BOCzQPexnY8/TQteayEqFtI/AAAAAAAABLQ/3zVchr2aMxk/s1600/pynchon_house.jpg

hahahahaha loved that

[faithosaurus]

http://i54.tinypic.com/33ndwfo.jpg

Camus is such a babe.

http://i56.tinypic.com/122n8ya.jpg

Anne Rice.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2je8ec0.jpg

Phillip Margolin.

[Jeremydav]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Derrida_main.jpg

Derrida, more a philosopher but an interesting one with quite a bit of weight in the world of literary theory.

[weltanschauung]

http://navayana.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/zizek3.jpg

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[hanzklein]

my favorite authorial photo of all time:

http://blog.syracuse.com/shelflife/joyce.jpg

...just badass...

[weltanschauung]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BSCeP9r5uD8/TBt9Zs5HL_I/AAAAAAAABSA/vbn5eCJH7b8/s1600/jose+saramago.jpg
saramago, my love

[Emil Miller]

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/1720/duydemaupassantporfranc.jpg



http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6031/50706595.jpg

[mrv]

http://i54.tinypic.com/33ndwfo.jpg

Camus is such a babe.



Can't see the pic you posted but in this one he sure is

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YZgVjLb-0m4/SIRXDIPikgI/AAAAAAAAASs/zUKyaJ3Hucw/s320/Albert+Camus.jpg

I like this one too

http://www3.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2005/200/2232_112185648039.jpg

[Gregory Samsa]

http://juannicho.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/stig2.jpg

[Blasarius '33]

A few favorites:


Flannery O'Connor & self portrait
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u204/littlestupid/literary%20list/AGOODMANISHARDTOFINDoconnor.jpg


Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u204/littlestupid/literary%20list/EVAISINSIDEHERCATGGMarquez.jpg


Laurence Sterne
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u204/littlestupid/literary%20list/sterne_laurence.jpg

[iswarya]

the best for me would be Iago of Othello. the character of sydney carton of a tale of two cities is unforgettable too

[oshima]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jcy9quqHs6w/TTZWeO2o_CI/AAAAAAAAAIE/6laIjmR7tKU/s1600/chekhov.jpg Suave Chekhov
http://amsaw.org/pic0704-proust004.jpgProust. Do I really need to say more?

[Kafka's Crow]

Samuel Beckett's mural on Portobello Road, London:

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i72/Raz1/bee58fd0.jpg

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i72/Raz1/5be95132.jpg

[Epistemophile]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pCG_c3Rq788/S-RfXl6Mx_I/AAAAAAAAHbc/U623-Y2lY4M/s1600/Rabindranath%2BTagore,%2BBerlin%2B1930.jpg

Rabindranath Tagore, Berlin 1930

[Brock]

Who could forget this woman, infamous for her physical qualities? (In fact, I think she looks pretty attractive here..)

http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/ff475/dannybrock88/43077_max.jpg

[stlukesguild]

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:

http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads2009/2009/04/dante-alighieri-by-marco-menco-web.jpg

:D

Damn! That's an evil looking Dante.

Here's a few favorites of my own:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5302/5678045278_2320d1680f.jpg
-Kafka

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5182/5678044888_e0045bda46.jpg
-Baudelaire

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5677485971_fcd092e58f.jpg
-Spenser

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5677485667_699deb3f05.jpg
-Petrarch

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5677485855_9dd5f1a09b_z.jpg
-Goethe

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5267/5678044714_8e13b10216.jpg
-Homer

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5678065428_a620511b56_z.jpg
-Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (Rembrandt)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5028/5678044834_107edfdf93.jpg
-J.L. Borges

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5677486495_f78e96efef.jpg
-Rilke (Not at all what I would have expected from his poetry)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5226/5677486435_3689feac5f_z.jpg
-William Blake, deathmask (Exactly what I imagined)

[mortalterror]

My favorite portrait is from the time Ernest Hemingway came to a party at my college and we got ****faced together.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h268/Saliari/6680_100441186633825_100000038312172_9861_3347882_ n.jpg

[iamnobody]

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r5/silentsparrow/dostoevsky.jpg

Dostoevsky

[Gregory Samsa]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/1/27/1296093099179/JD-Salinger-letters-007.jpg


J.D Salinger (right) with a friend.

[Emil Miller]

My favorite portrait is from the time Ernest Hemingway came to a party at my college and we got ****faced together.
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h268/Saliari/6680_100441186633825_100000038312172_9861_3347882_ n.jpg

I take it the guy holding the glass is Hemingway but who's the guy holding the bottle?

[mortalterror]

I take it the guy holding the glass is Hemingway but who's the guy holding the bottle?

The guy holding the glass is me circa 2001. I got bored one day and started mashing up old pictures of Ernest Hemingway and me in MSPaint to make it look like we were best buddies. Our further chronicles were supposed to include us on a tandem bicycle, us sharing a malted, smoking weed at a strip club, and hunting bears on the moon. However, I quickly became disillusioned with MSPaint and quit after doctoring this photograph.

[Buh4Bee]

Most entertaining thread!

[Alexander III]

http://thepoetryworld.com/userfiles/2010/1/25/images/An%20introduction%20to%20the%20poetry%20of%20Lord% 20Byron.jpg

Lord Byron


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Lev_Nikolayevich_Tolstoy_1854.jpg

Count Lev Tolstoy


http://photos1.hi5.com/0061/442/492/RWzhPR442492-02.jpg

Arthur Rimbaud


http://imagerepository.net/images/p/i/22/pictures-percy-shelley/1-pictures-percy-shelley.jpg

Percy Bysshe Shelley


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3567/3695228693_fcc3d03d56.jpg

Sir Philip Sidney

http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/08/photo_Hemingway_young_uniform1.jpg

Ernest Hemingway

[Propter W.]

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/hst_big_sur.jpghttp://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/04/23/Hunter-Thompson-Rum-diary.jpg

Dr. Thompson

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/10/26/2009521/Roy-420x0.jpg

The beautiful Arundhati Roy

[Lokasenna]

http://bilbohobbit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/tolkien14.jpg

Tolkien, looking rather erudite.

http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Snorre_Sturluson-Christian_Krohg.jpg/200px-Snorre_Sturluson-Christian_Krohg.jpg

Snorri Sturluson, one of the greatest minds the medieval world produced - and doesn't he look it?

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/hpl/hpl.jpg

H. P. Lovecraft, looking appropriately creepy.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01297/Evelyn_Waugh_s_Sco_1297063c.jpg

Evelyn Waugh, who looks inappropriately humourless here.

http://www.virtue.to/articles/images/134x_MarieDeFrance.jpg

Marie de France, apparently. I didn't know we had a bust of her until fairly recently.

[Janine]

Neat thread. I will have to try and come up with some. I keep files of authors I like.

[The Comedian]

Here's another one of my favorites. Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire, Monkey Wrench Gang) playing a flute. While Abbey did play the flute, this is also an homage to Thoreau (Walden) who described playing the flute by Walden pond.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/kgk/UC101/Abbey.jpg

[Vonny]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder.jpg

Since childhood, I've loved Laura Ingalls Wilder

[Freudian Monkey]

http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/s/files/vanhat/library/images/Waltari%20ja%20Sillanp%E4%E4%201958.jpg

Two great Finnish authors fooling around (from left): Mika Waltari and F.E Sillanpää.


http://www.finlit.fi/tietopalvelu/elias/el_kuvat/ela_alku6.jpg

Another well-known and respected Finn, Elias Lönnrot, the writer of Kalevala. Apparently he liked Bonaparte's style.

[Dalalm]

http://thisrecording.com/storage/anton-cgjhfgjhgjhekhov.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=12 85962846002

Chekhov


http://www.stars-portraits.com/img/portraits/stars/n/nikolai-gogol/nikolai-gogol-1-by-volkov.jpg

Gogol



http://www.blacklamb.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/turgenevphoto.png

Ivan Turgenev


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mbWThvBk2kA/SM_VbpqdO1I/AAAAAAAAGd8/gFC7uw2lsVs/s320/miller.jpg

Arthur Miller

[Dark Muse]

Of course my dear dear Edgar

http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/Public_Domain_Photos/Poe.jpg

http://www.rightwords.eu/imgupl/author/t-600x600/edgar-allan-poe--593--t-600x600-rw.jpg

And some others:

This is not my favorite portrait of Atwood, which is on the back of one of my books and I could not find online but I do like this one

http://www.nndb.com/people/375/000026297/atwood1-sized.jpg

J.D. Salinger

http://images.nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/opener100222_560.jpg

Tom Robbins

http://www.malibumag.com/images/uploads/tim1.jpg

[Dark Muse]

Ok I just had to add this as well

Sappho

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/literature/pictures/sappho.gif

http://www.livius.org/a/1/greeks/sappho_cm.JPG

http://www.barbaraknott.net/Sappho.jpg

http://www.flogris.org/exhibitions/HSB_online/exhibitionsimages/BartholemewSappho1.JPG

[King Mob]

Not a portrait but still priceless:

http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/f/o/for_a_k/Allen-Ginsberg_-Philip-Whalen_-William-S-Burroughs_-Varsity-Townhouses-swimming-pool_-Boulder-CO-1978.jpg
Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen and William S. Burroughs

http://lacelia.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/cortazar.jpg
The great Julio Cortázar

[intoxicatedsoul]

My favorite sisters...


http://mick-armitage.staff.shef.ac.uk/anne/brnsmall.jpg


"The Pillar Portrait"
Anne is on the left with Emily in the center and Charlotte on the right.

[Kundan]

Like Tom Robbins' portrait the most

[Gregory Samsa]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/10/arts/vonnegut3.jpg

[hawthorns]

I'm fond of this one of Proust:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/top10_recluse/proust.jpg

and this one of Baudelaire for a look that said, "go ahead, make my day."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Baudelaire_crop.jpg/220px-Baudelaire_crop.jpg