Dubravka Ugrešić

Writer without a nation. Writer with hand to chin.

Haruki Murakami

Unclassifiable Japanese author affecting the writer pose.

Manuel Puig

One of the great Argentine writers, dismissed by his peers, loved by his fans, touched by his own hands.

César Vallejo

Remarkable Peruvian poet famously photographed in classic writer pose.

Mary Kinzie

Poet, professor, lover of forms, face toucher when the cameras click

Pablo Neruda

The great poet succumbs

Jeanette Winterson

Technically this one’s head and hands, but the picture, clearly Ms. Winterson’s favorite (check her site), strikes me as the perfect author photo with its implied balance of seriousness and absurdity.