Marion Ettlinger was a master of the authorial portrait. Even a small sample of her subjects reads like selections from the library of a particularly fascinating friend: Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Patricia Highsmith, George Saunders, Francine Prose.
,” and was treated to O’Brien’s sonorous recitation—plucked entirely from memory—of the first pages. Patrica Highsmith kindly demonstrated, during her sitting, a foolproof method for getting drink rings off of wooden tabletops: spit on it, rub it with your cigarette ash, and leave it to sit for a few days. At’s home in Indiana, she was almost mauled by a farm dog while attempting to make a brooding portrait of the author in a nearby field.
Publishers used to spring for their authors’ portrait sessions without a second thought, but at some point the expense began to be considered an expendable luxury. “They shifted it to the author having to pay for their own author photos, which was horrible,” Ettlinger recalled, “because, you know, I don’t mind taking money from the Man, but I don’t want to take it from. I don’t care if they’re successful or struggling—it just doesn’t feel that great.
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