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Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer whose vision is psychologically and aesthetically astute. --Ian McEwan In Author, Beowulf Sheehan presents writers in repose, mercifully free of the preen and strut demanded by their literary profiles. Through the wit and wisdom of his artistry and his genius for capturing the one character most slippery to writers--themselves--he gives us intimate portraits that overwhelm the limits of their frames. --Gregory Pardlo Beowulf Sheehan is a poet, working with light. --George Saunders In the literary community Beowulf Sheehan has earned a special place of distinction for his portraits of authors. Beyond their beautiful composition and haunting moods, his photos exhibit a keen insight into their subjects and testify to his intimate knowledge of writers and their works. He succeeds in capturing whole even the most elusive scribes. --Ron Chernow Stunning. Beowulf Sheehan approaches his portraits with the soul of a poet, finding in his authors those flashes of desire and vulnerability and hurt and hope that drove them to write their books in the first place. Author is an anthology of that humanity, its photographs united by their glimpses of the secret, inner lives that dwell in all of us-uncanny, surprising, both darker and brighter than we could have imagined. --Leslie Jamison Beowulf is a visionary artist, and his work is beautiful and moving and revelatory. Like all great artists, he has the ability to see into and through his subject, and then to reveal the hidden strengths and vulnerabilities of those subjects in his portraiture. Each portrait will open a window for you to see in new ways, with new clarity, new perception. --Jesmyn Ward Beowulf Sheehan reveals authors pictured in that twilight place between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us, and in every perfect shot he takes his love for words and books and the people who make them shows through. --Neil Gaiman

Sheehan has breathed new life into literary photography. --The Los Angeles Times Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer whose vision is psychologically and aesthetically astute. --Ian McEwan In Author, Beowulf Sheehan presents writers in repose, mercifully free of the preen and strut demanded by their literary profiles. Through the wit and wisdom of his artistry and his genius for capturing the one character most slippery to writers--themselves--he gives us intimate portraits that overwhelm the limits of their frames. --Gregory Pardlo Beowulf Sheehan is a poet, working with light. --George Saunders In the literary community Beowulf Sheehan has earned a special place of distinction for his portraits of authors. Beyond their beautiful composition and haunting moods, his photos exhibit a keen insight into their subjects and testify to his intimate knowledge of writers and their works. He succeeds in capturing whole even the most elusive scribes. --Ron Chernow Stunning. Beowulf Sheehan approaches his portraits with the soul of a poet, finding in his authors those flashes of desire and vulnerability and hurt and hope that drove them to write their books in the first place. Author is an anthology of that humanity, its photographs united by their glimpses of the secret, inner lives that dwell in all of us-uncanny, surprising, both darker and brighter than we could have imagined. --Leslie Jamison Beowulf is a visionary artist, and his work is beautiful and moving and revelatory. Like all great artists, he has the ability to see into and through his subject, and then to reveal the hidden strengths and vulnerabilities of those subjects in his portraiture. Each portrait will open a window for you to see in new ways, with new clarity, new perception. --Jesmyn Ward Beowulf Sheehan reveals authors pictured in that twilight place between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us, and in every perfect shot he takes his love for words and books and the people who make them shows through. --Neil Gaiman

In Author, Beowulf Sheehan presents writers in repose, mercifully free of the preen and strut demanded by their literary profiles. Through the wit and wisdom of his artistry and his genius for capturing the one character most slippery to writers--themselves--he gives us intimate portraits that overwhelm the limits of their frames. --Gregory Pardlo Beowulf Sheehan is a poet, working with light. --George Saunders In the literary community Beowulf Sheehan has earned a special place of distinction for his portraits of authors. Beyond their beautiful composition and haunting moods, his photos exhibit a keen insight into their subjects and testify to his intimate knowledge of writers and their works. He succeeds in capturing whole even the most elusive scribes. --Ron Chernow Stunning. Beowulf Sheehan approaches his portraits with the soul of a poet, finding in his authors those flashes of desire and vulnerability and hurt and hope that drove them to write their books in the first place. Author is an anthology of that humanity, its photographs united by their glimpses of the secret, inner lives that dwell in all of us-uncanny, surprising, both darker and brighter than we could have imagined. --Leslie Jamison Beowulf is a visionary artist, and his work is beautiful and moving and revelatory. Like all great artists, he has the ability to see into and through his subject, and then to reveal the hidden strengths and vulnerabilities of those subjects in his portraiture. Each portrait will open a window for you to see in new ways, with new clarity, new perception. --Jesmyn Ward Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer whose vision is psychologically and aesthetically astute. --Ian McEwan Beowulf Sheehan reveals authors pictured in that twilight place between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us, and in every perfect shot he takes his love for words and books and the people who make them shows through. --Neil Gaiman

Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer whose vision is psychologically and aesthetically astute. --Ian McEwan Beowulf Sheehan is a poet, working with light. --George Saunders Beowulf is a visionary artist, and his work is beautiful and moving and revelatory. Like all great artists, he has the ability to see into and through his subject, and then to reveal the hidden strengths and vulnerabilities of those subjects in his portraiture. Each portrait will open a window for you to see in new ways, with new clarity, new perception. --Jesmyn Ward In Author, Beowulf Sheehan presents writers in repose, mercifully free of the preen and strut demanded by their literary profiles. Through the wit and wisdom of his artistry and his genius for capturing the one character most slippery to writers--themselves--he gives us intimate portraits that overwhelm the limits of their frames. --Gregory Pardlo In the literary community Beowulf Sheehan has earned a special place of distinction for his portraits of authors. Beyond their beautiful composition and haunting moods, his photos exhibit a keen insight into their subjects and testify to his intimate knowledge of writers and their works. He succeeds in capturing whole even the most elusive scribes. --Ron Chernow Stunning. Beowulf Sheehan approaches his portraits with the soul of a poet, finding in his authors those flashes of desire and vulnerability and hurt and hope that drove them to write their books in the first place. Author is an anthology of that humanity, its photographs united by their glimpses of the secret, inner lives that dwell in all of us-uncanny, surprising, both darker and brighter than we could have imagined. --Leslie Jamison Beowulf Sheehan reveals authors pictured in that twilight place between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us, and in every perfect shot he takes his love for words and books and the people who make them shows through. --Neil Gaiman

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Beowulf Sheehan's childhood love of stories in books and music grew into an adulthood love of storytellers in the arts, entertainment, and humanities. His photographs have been published in Elle, Esquire, Glamour , the New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue , and others. He lives in New York City.

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