Writers

"Here are more than a hundred duotone portraits of our major novelists, poets, and playwrights. Paired with the photographs are texts from each writer on writing - thoughts on the craft, recollections of significant moments from their personal history, meditations on the civic importance of writing, and so forth." "Some of the photographs in this treasure trove are already well known - Bellow, Mailer, Cheever, Wolfe, Singer, and Capote, to name a few. Others have never before been published. Many were taken on location, from Tom Stoppard in London and James Baldwin in Provence to Gabriel Ga...