25 June 2008
Author Pictures at Lebrecht Launch
Lebrecht launches new website
www.authorpictures.co.uk, the first picture source dedicated to authors and literatures of all periods, languages and styles.
Lebrecht's new website
www.authorpictures.co.uk contains thousands of images of authors and their works. By author they mean everyone who has ever written a book for publication - whether novelist or historian, poet or politician, playwright or philosopher.
The collection, already extensive, is growing week by week. Lebrecht offers a unique, in-depth approach to the life and work of every writer. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please contact them at
pictures@lebrecht.co.uk.
As usual, Lebrecht will provide an in-depth product and images that you cannot find everywhere else on the internet. If you cannot find the image you are looking for do contact us as we can call on our many sources of supply for the image you need.
The opening feature focusses on Sir Arnold Wesker, the internationally renowned British playwright, novelist, essayist and poet, who turns 76 on May 24. Famous for his 1950s trilogy, Chicken Soup with Barley, Roots and I'm Talking about Jerusalem, Sir Arnold he has written 42 plays and has just published a new collection of poetry and is staging his first opera in Tokyo. He allowed Le brecht to scan samples of his manuscripts on
www.authorpictures.co.uk
