Novelist Tapestries

It is still a significant controversy that Leo Tolstoy never received Nobel Prize in literature though he was nominated many times. Tolstoy, a spiritual anarchist and pacifist, is one of the greatest writers of all time.

Perfect appreciation, birthday or Christmas gift for writer: Loved one or friend !

Charles Dickens was one of the most famous and successful writers in 19th-century England.

Another great illustration from the renowned artist Paul Cemmick's Crazy Quotes Collection

With this image, we celebrate American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).

Marcel Proust: Prominent 20th-century French novelist, delving into intricate explorations of memory, psychology, and society.

First God, then writing.

A portrait in ink on paper of novelist, playwright and poet Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). (As with all portraits in the Queer Icons collection, 25% of the profits from this image will be donated to LGBTQ+ charities.)

A tough and traumatic childhood didn't stop Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) from becoming one of the essential modernist writers. She was a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Her most famous works are the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927).

Jack London was a hell of a writer; his style crisp, his vision clear. He paved the way for no-BS American writers like Ernest Hemingway and even Bukowski. His novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang are world heritage.

Writing a Book - Playful retro vintage typography word art for writing a book. A motivational text-based design for book writing and a possible gift idea for authors, writers, novelists, anyone who's writing a book, and maybe participating in nanowrimo, milwordy, a virtual write-in, random typing and writing, etc. Writing here and there, it all adds up!

With this image, we celebrate the uniqueness of Chilean poet and writer Roberto Bolaño.

Why Kafka's appeal is so deep and lasting? Because he is like no-one else, and no-one else can be like him.

Charlotte Bronte Portrait | Charlotte Brontë Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

Carson McCullers wrote about the deep South, and her work is frequently described as Southern Gothic. Despite her poor health and the series of strokes that tormented her since her youth, she gave us a significant number of excellent books: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding, The Ballad of the Sad Café. She was a close friend of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

Draft Zero - Motivational writing typography with a typewriter graphic for roughs,draft zeroes, first drafts or initial brainstorming and scribbles. A potential gift idea for authors, writers, novel writing, novelists, playwrights, script writers, short story writers, poetry writers, bloggers, anyone who's writing a first draft, and maybe participating in events like nanowrimo, milwordy, a virtual write-in, random typing and writing, etc. Writing here and there, it all adds up!

Truman Capote

Rough Draft - Motivational writing typography and a typewriter graphic inside a circular frame for roughs or first drafts or initial brainstorming and scribbles. A potential gift idea for authors, writers, novel writing, novelists, playwrights, script writers, short story writers, poetry writers, bloggers, anyone who's writing a rough draft, and maybe participating in events like nanowrimo, milwordy, a virtual write-in, random typing and writing, etc. Writing here and there, it all adds up!

E. L. Doctorow on writing: Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Poet and writer Boris Pasternak wanted to write about ordinary things, but "ordinary things" were rough and would hit back maliciously. Somehow, Pasternak survived it all. He became famous internationally with his novel Doctor Zhivago. In 1958, Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The weather is changing. In fact, yesterday I closed all the windows and pulled on a sweater. And, one of my favorite autumn activities is to snuggle up with a big mug of tea and a book.⁠ .⁠ I'm looking for reading recommendations! What's your favorite autumnal read???

Georges Bataille was a French poet and novelist, but is better known as an intelectual whose philosophical, social and even economic theories had wide appeal and influenced the Western thought. One of his most famous books is La Part Maudite (The Accursed Share).

Charlotte Bronte Snowy Portrait | Charlotte Brontë Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

Herman Melville Portrait | Herman Melville Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child and was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the Negro dialect associated with the antebellum South, though he wrote in several dialects, including German and the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.[1] Dunbar's work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associa...

E. L. Doctorow on writing: Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Most people know about writer, poet, and actor Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) through Paul Schrader's movie Mishima. It examined his attempt to execute coup Coup d'état. After it failed, Mishima committed seppuku, a ritual suicide. He is still a controversial topic in Japan, but nobody can dispute that he is one of the most important Japanese writers of the twentieth century. In 1968, he almost got The Nobel Prize in Literature. His opus includes 34 novels, 50 plays, 25 books of stories, and 35 books of essays!

Design by The Whiskey Ginger - Bozeman, Montana.

Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist, vividly depicted social inequality, memorable characters, and societal issues, shaping 19th-century literature and advocating for reform.

Write the book, wear the badge.

Minimalistic portrait of author Mary Shelley

Add some fun to your author wardrobe with this funny author design or give it as the perfect gift.

Norwegian Wood is a novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe portrait and quote: We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a child and was president of his high school's literary society. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper. Much of Dunbar's more popular work in his lifetime was written in the Negro dialect associated with the antebellum South, though he wrote in several dialects, including German and the Midwestern regional dialect of James Whitcomb Riley.[1] Dunbar's work was praised by William Dean Howells, a leading editor associa...

The Roberto Bolano 2666 Design is inspired by the last novel written by the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. Released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death, the novel is divided into five sections that are linked by varying degrees of concern with the unsolved murders of upwards of 300 young, poor, mostly uneducated Mexican women in Ciudad Juárez (Santa Teresa in the novel).