Authors photos

[learna]

These are the most famous portraits of Pushkin by Kiprensky and his wife Goncharova by my favourite artist Brullov.

[learna]

Antoine de Saint Exupery

[learna]

Romain Gary

[Funhouse]

Australians:


Tim Winton


Richard Flanagan


David Malouf


Peter Carey


Sonya Hartnett


Kate Grenville

[Funhouse]

New Zealanders:


Janet Frame (see Kate Grenville above)


Katherine Mansfield


Lloyd Jones


Witi Ihimaera


Carl Shuker

[Eric]

Any guesses for the 7 in #56. All famous authors. No Estonians.

I still claim that Lovecraft looks creepy, even next to his flooze.

Cortázar looks unspeakably brow-creased with his cat.

[miercuri]

@Eric - I noticed DH Lawrence but that's about it.

[Daniel del Real]

Originally Posted by Peeping Tom

Here's one of a young Haruki Murakami with cat.

Attachment 51

Great picture. I was trying to find a Murakami+cat photo and couldn't find any. Thanks a lot Tom

[miercuri]

Margaret Atwood + cat



Norwegian Forest cat by the looks of it. Too bad there's a watermark.

edit: because I can't help it

Mark Twain



Hunter S Thompson



Capote

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Daniel del Real

Here's one of the most photogenic authors (he's got tons of great pictures)
Julio Cortazar (and his cat):

What a nice photo!

It looks like they are really talking to each other!

[Daniel del Real]

Hey, I like a lot this pictures of authors and cats. Incredible pictures, but as I wasn't able to find more here is another facet:
Authors and their loves:

Saramago and his wife Pilar



Pamuk and his daughter:




Auster and his daughter Sophie (she's a hottie, It would be great to have Paul Auster as father in law )

[miercuri]

It would be great to have Paul Auster as your father!

On to couples/loved ones
Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, judging by the way they write these two are one true pairing


and here is one of the many pictures of Mr and Mrs Vladimir Nabokov playing chess
edit: where did it go???

[Igu Soni]

Dave Eggers and wife (she remind anyone else of Kate Winslet in The Reader?).

[Jayaprakash]

Gosh, Tim Winton is a hunk.

Lovecraft and Felis, creepy as you want them to be:



Here's Doris Lessing with a cat:




Hemingway preferred killing cats. Look at the smile on that sonuvabitch. Ugliest thing on this thread.



Here's a much nicer picture. Edward Gorey and his cats. I too spend many a lazy afternoon just so.

[Eric]

Yes, Miercuri, the chinful wonder was indeed D. H. Lawrence; this was before he started sporting a beard. The next bloke wrote tragic novels and made up place names. The Scots poet isn't Scots at all. The boy-with-scissors chap is one of Europe's better known gay Protestant authors. The chubby cheeky chappie came from Yorkshire, but spent most of his writing life in London. The unemployed opera singer worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, UK. And the frowning Andrew Marr lookalike, with the sticking-out ears is perhaps the most famous Russian author of all, as a young man.

[Eric]

Here are a few more to guess at, all Nobel prizewinners for literature, so that narrows the field down a bit:


This chap was ginger before he went bald.


This chap was a war correspondent.


This chap was a bit of a philosopher.


This chap loved crowds and power.


This chap married an aristocrat.


This chap was a friend of Anthony Powell.


This chap's just plain scruffy.


This chap is a lady.

[saliotthomas]

Not a big fan of Ellis but this photo shows the big blob he really is.



Boris karloff,author of brooklyn and the master.



Mistry really has a nice face,one feel like he could be a friend.



which is not the case with this fellow



Here is dear Boris Vian jazzman and writer.



And one of my wife countryman,Roddy.

[Jayaprakash]

The war correspondent is Winston Churchill. The philosopher's Bertrand Russell. Powell's buddy is VS Naipaul. Is the lady Pearl Buck?

[Galatea92]

Originally Posted by Eric

This chap married an aristocrat.

Harold Pinter

Originally Posted by Eric

This chap's just plain scruffy.

Günter Grass

Originally Posted by Eric

This chap loved crowds and power.

Elias Canetti?

[Eric]

You're doing quite well, Jayaprakash, three out of four.

So the rightly guessed answers for the first and second batch of guesses:

First batch at #57:

D.H. Lawrence; ***; ***; ***; ***; ***; ***.

There's a Swede, three Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Russian left to guess, not necessarily in that order.

*

The second batch at #80:

***; Winston Churchill; Bertrand Russell; ***; ***; V.S. Naipaul; ***; ***.

Still five to guess. My favourite photo there is that incredibly scruffy chappie in the penultimate photo wearing a jacket and a bulging open shirt. Just imagine him in SS uniform! In that guise he would not have got on with the ginger chappie at the top. The lady is not novelist Pearl Buck, but a poet.