Portrait of M. Victor Hugo (1879) by Léon Bonnat. Click for hi-def image. (Via)
portraits of writers
Orwell
Colorized by Edvos. Date and photographer unknown. (Via Colorized History.)
Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh
Graham Greene, 1964. Portrait by Yousuf Karsh.
Joyce
James Joyce. Scratchboard portrait by Mark Summers, whose work you will recognize from Barnes & Noble shopping bags, among other places.
The Master
Henry James, age 63
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966
Miller & Monroe, 1957
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller, 1957, by Richard Avedon.
Note to my sons: once upon a time it was very, very cool to be a writer.
Steinbeck
Fitzgerald
