Author Photo

"The writing life has long captured our collective imagination. What is it about writers, we wonder, that empowers them to work words into shapes and patterns that move us? The most affecting photographs possess that same power - to reach out upon first sight, to capture our hearts and minds, to leave us smitten." "Author Photo collects, for the first time in book form, more than two hundred of Marion Ettlinger's most famous photographs. Immortalized in these pages are many of America's greatest writers, including Raymond Carver, Francine Prose, Walter Mosley, Mary Karr, John Irving, Joyce…