Author Pictures contains thousands of images of authors and their works. By author we mean everyone who has ever written a book for publication - whether novelist or historian, poet or politician, playwright or philosopher, physicist or psychologist, mathematician or scientist, biographer or biologist, theologian or naturalist. As ever, 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 us at pictures@lebrecht.co.uk because we can call in our many supply sources for the image you need.

Author Pictures is part of the Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library at www.lebrecht.co.uk. This is the world's most comprehensive image bank for MUSIC and one of the largest for ARTS and LITERATURE. In addition to its own collection, Lebrecht has access to five million pictures from institutions, superb photographers and partner libraries in Europe and North America.

Our core collection covers every aspect of the lives and works of composers and creators, the concert halls where they worked, the societies they lived in - from Chopin to Chagall, Pink Floyd to Stalin, Plato to Nabokov.

Founded in 1992, Lebrecht owns many rare and exclusive pictures. Every Lebrecht image is authenticated by our expert consultants - a unique service in a confusing world of virtual reality.

If it's arts you need, Lebrecht will either have the image or know instantly where to find it. CONTACT US at pictures@lebrecht.co.uk or ring 44 20 7625 5341 USA toll-free 1-866-833-1793