Graham Greene, 1964. Portrait by Yousuf Karsh.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (via)
James Joyce. Scratchboard portrait by Mark Summers, whose work you will recognize from Barnes & Noble shopping bags, among other places.
Henry James
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966
Source: photogravure.com
“Kindest Regards, Bill Russell” (1961). (via)
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller (1957), by Richard Avedon (via avedonanderte)
Note to my sons: Once upon a time it was very, very cool to be a writer.
Ian McEwan. Photo by Annalena McAfee. More on McEwan’s writing process here.
Daughter of Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp near Sacramento, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1936.
Zelda Fitzgerald, 1924, age 23. Zelda Fitzgerald died on this day in 1948. (Source, via scribnerbooks, via i12bent.)
Edith Wharton, 1876. (via)
The Romanovs. From the family albums of the Russian royal family at Yale’s Beinecke Library (available on Flickr).
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Photo by Dorothea Lange. 4.11.1940.
Edison, Kern County, California. Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. On the day before the photograph was made she and her husband traveled 35 miles each way to pick peas. They worked 5 hours each and together earned $2.25. They have two young children… Live in auto camp.
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