Authors photos

[Bjorn]

#2 is Eric's favourite, Jan Guillou.

These are your beards. All five of'em. Know your beards.

[Mirabell]

Originally Posted by beelzebubbles

I don't know who the poets are but the others are Norman Mailer, Jenna Jameson and Richard Ford.

I don't know who the handsome novelist with the glossy coat and the cold nose is.

Maybe it's Millie?

The poets are both from the New York School.

[Mirabell]

wrote, acted and directed. unlaced her shoes.

[SlowRain]

I've always liked this picture of le Carré. It's my second favorite picture of him--although most pictures of him are pretty creative. Just do a quick Google search and you'll see what I mean. My favorite picture of him was a grainy photo on the back of the Canadian hardcover release of The Night Manager, published by Viking. I think it was taken by the Douglas Brothers, but I can't find it online. It lent a nice ambiguity to the novel. His next novel, Our Game, had an even grainier one, also by the Douglas Brothers, but I think it went a little too far.

Sorry for the size of this one, but I couldn't find a bigger one.

[Jayaprakash]

Funhouse: All correct guesses.

[Eric]

SlowRain, the picture of David Cornwell looks more like Nosferatu.

Björn's beardy weirdies: Don't know the first one, looks like General Grant; Dostoevsky; Henry Gibson; Don't know that one either, though he looks a bit like opera chappie Verdi; The last one's the same as one of the photos I posted. Another of him after a visit to the barber's:





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Yes, Harry and Björn, they are: Stieg "Bestseller" Larsson; Jan "Spy" Guillou; Håkan "Will-Self-Lookalike" Nesser, Kerstin "Academy Dropout" Ekman; Henning "Ingmar Bergman's son-in-law" Mankell. The Russian headgear gives KGB talent scout Guillou away. They're still bitching about his dodgy past in Sweden.

But what, genristically, have they in common apart from their nationality?

Beardies

first H Melville
second FM Dostoyevski

[miercuri]

Originally Posted by Mirabell

wrote, acted and directed. unlaced her shoes.

Sarah Kane

[Heteronym]

The Portuguese are severely underrepresented here. That needs fixing:

Dishavelled José Saramago


José Saramago surrounded by books


Fernando Pessoa walking in Lisbon


Fernando Pessoa (who died from cirrhosis of the liver)


The creepy eyes of Almada Negreiros


Mário Cesariny, the last great surrealist poet

[beelzebubbles]

Originally Posted by Mirabell

The poets are both from the New York School.

Well with that clue I figured one had to be John Ashbury. So I googled him and found the pic with himself and Frank O'Hara.

Of all the others, the only one I have recognized is Stephen Jay Gould, popular science author and evolutionary biologist.

[miercuri]

this guy knows his Shakespeare

[Funhouse]

Originally Posted by miercuri

this guy knows his Shakespeare

In almost every photo of Tom Stoppard he has a cigarette. I like this much younger photo of him...

[Eric]

Heteronym #155. It must be telepathy. I was thinking yesterday about doing Portugal. But I could only think of Pessoa and Saramago.

Miercuri's #157 looks like Tom Stoppard the Czech-born Englishman, as Funhouse has already guessed. I recognised him from the older photo; wouldn't have guessed the earlier one.

[beelzebubbles]

Originally Posted by Funhouse

In almost every photo of Tom Stoppard he has a cigarette. I like this much younger photo of him...

He looks like a more sensual member of The Beatles there.

[Liam]

Not sure if his novels are sufficiently literary or if his biographies are sufficiently well-researched, but I always thought the dude was hot.

And he doesn't live too far away; d'ya think I ought to travel up and ask him to put his bookmark in my quarto?

Cheers,
L

[Johan]

More quizzing.

[Liam]

Originally Posted by Johan

More quizzing.

I thought that quizzes were for kids, --



L.

[Eric]

Quizzes are for kids. But we have all retained some childlike aspects to our brains. Fun is fun, at any age. One of the most hawkish news background programme presenters in Britain, Jeremy Paxman, still finds time to chair the slightly up-market quiz programme "University Challenge".

Looking at Johan's mugshot's:

1) Pär Lagerkvist?

2) Don't know.

3) Stanislaw Lem.

4) Familiar. Who? Stig Dagerman?

5) Don't know.

6) Familiar. Who? Mahfouz?

7) Donna Tartt?

8) Anthony Burgess.

9) Haven't a clue. Maybe Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen when young.

[Eric]

I hadn't heard of him till ten minutes ago, but here he is:



And a few more authors:

[Flower]

Originally Posted by Igu Soni

F*** you, guess-this-photo-ers. None of you can get these, mostly because you probably haven't read them(all good authors, I assure you):

(According to me, the most exciting Indian English writer)

Who is this???