black and white pictures of (and 10 observations about) the 6 authors who i am reading books by at the moment

Observations:

1. Half of them are wearing glasses.
2. Three of them are British, two are American, one is Japanese
3. Two of them are dead, four of them are not.
4. All six of them are men.
5. Only one of them committed ritual suicide by cutting open his belly after a failed coup attempt.
6. Only one of them kidnapped a Thai child prostitute, bought her off her father and put her in a home and school.
7. Both of the Americans won the National Book Award.
8. Only one of them was badly beaten by an angry mob in Afghanistan, although another of them did go to Afghanistan when he finished college to try and volunteer with the Mujahideen in the war against the Russians.
9. Two of them are journalists, one of them writes children's books and four of them write novels.
10. I have met only one of them.

(robert fisk, yukio mishima, david mitchell, william gaddis, william t. vollmann, philip pullman)