Portraits of writers, part 1

For my first post of Portraits of Writers, I'll begin with this wonderful shot, to celebrate J. P. Donleavy's birthday today.

J.P. Donleavy by Stephen Hyde, 1983. National Portrait Gallery, London 

Henry James by Frederic D'Arcis, 1913

Simone de Beauvoir by Gisèle Freund, Paris, 1954. This was taken the day she won the Prix Goncourt.

P.D. James by Dudley Reed, 1983

C.L.R. James by Val Wilmer, 1975

Doris Lessing by Ida Kar, late 1950s

Doris Lessing by Lord Snowdon, 1992. I couldn't decide which Lessing portrait I preferred, so I went ahead and used them both.

Edna St. Vincent Millay by Henrietta Seitner Krohn, 1919. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

W. H. Auden by Yousuf Karsh, 1972. 

Karsh remembered this last session with Auden, in Stephen Spender's garden:

"Come soon, come soon," he invited, but I knew I would never see him again.

Anaïs Nin by Irving Penn, 1971

Larry McMurtry by Michael O'Brien, 1997

Katherine Mansfield by John Herbert Folker, 1917

James Baldwin by Maria Austria, Netherlands, 1965

H. D. by Man Ray, c. 1925

Jack Kerouac by John Cohen, 1959. He's listening to himself on the radio.