author portraits

I once had an English class where the professor was obsessed with Joseph Conrad. It got to the point where no matter what book or author we were reading, he would go off on a comparison to Heart of Darkness and then never make it back. The entire class very quickly learned that if we spent our tests and essays repeatedly saying that Conrad was an unparalleled genius, we would all get A's.
While most people spent this class period on Facebook, I spent most of my time making doodles in my notebook of the author photo on the back of the books we were supposed to be discussing. I eventually took this idea more seriously and now have a small collection of author portraits.
Hope you like them:

Chang-Rae Lee.

Don DeLillo.

Toni Morrison.

Neil Gaiman.

William Shakespeare.

Jane Austen.

J.K. Rowling.

Madeleine L'Engle.

Gertrude Stein.

James Joyce.

Agatha Christie.

C.S. Lewis.

Raymond Carver.

David Foster Wallace.

Nellie Bly.

much love,
hedgie