Marion Ettlinger (born 1949) is a
photographer
A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographe ...
specializing in author portraits.
Ettlinger's portrait photography appears on many book jackets. During her long career she has photographed
Truman Capote
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Tom Wolfe
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William Styron
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Raymond Carver,
Joyce Carol Oates
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Sarah Vowell and many more. A collection of her portraits, ''Author Photo: Portraits, 1983-2002'' was published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster ().
She has been a photographer for over 35 years, although only during the last twenty years has she focused her work on authors.
Other authors she has worked with over the years include:
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Cormac McCarthy
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Stewart O'Nan
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Life and work
Background
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
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George Plimpton
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Jeffrey Eugenides
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Francine Prose
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Alice Munro
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Elissa Schappell
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Writing career
Schappell graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writin ...
[''Use Me'', Elissa Schappell, William Morrow, 2000 (author photograph)]
References
External links
mediabistro.com interviewPhotographer's Website
Living people
1949 births
21st-century American women photographers
21st-century American photographers
20th-century American women photographers
20th-century American photographers
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