Famous Authors’ Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits and Reflections on the Divide Between the Private Person and the Writerly Persona

[David Morris]

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/08/whos-writing-this-notations-on-the-authorial-i-with-self-portraits/

*“It is to my other self, to Borges, that things happen… I live, I agree to
go on living, so that Borges may fashion his literature,”* Jorge Luis
Borges<http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/jorge-luis-borges/>
wrote
in his famous essay “Borges and I,” eloquently exploring our shared human
tendency to disintegrate into multiple personas as our public and private
selves slip in and out of different worlds. In 1996, *Daniel Halpern asked *56
of our era’s most celebrated writers to reflect on Borges’s memorable
meditation and contribute their own thoughts on the relationship between
the person writing and the fictional persona of the writer. The resulting
short essays, alongside hand-drawn self-portraits from each author — a
recurring
theme today<http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/08/self-portrait-as-your-traitor-debbie-millman/>
—
are gathered in *Who’s Writing This?: Notations on the Authorial I with
Self-Portraits*<http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Writing-This-Notations-Self-Portraits/dp/0880014466/?tag=braipick-20>
 (*public library*<http://www.worldcat.org/title/whos-writing-this-notations-on-the-authorial-i-with-self-portraits/oclc/30477278&referer=brief_results>),
a priceless addition to this omnibus of famous writers’ timeless wisdom on
the craft<http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/>
.
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