From Chinua Achebe to Stefan Zweig, graphic designer Andy Tuohy presents stylish portraits of 52 key modern writers significant for their contributions to literature, including Gabriel García Márquez, Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Maya Angelou, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, Toni Morrison, Yukio Mishima, Philip K. Dick, and Simone de Beauvoir. Each writer's entry contains a brief career overview, a list of must-read books, and surprising facts, as well as other images of famous book covers and author photographs.