Mark Gerson is a portrait photographer of major 20th-century literary figures from 1948 to the present day. Over a long career, 92 year old Mark Gerson has snapped the biggest names in literature, from Roald Dahl to Doris Lessing. Featured in the collection are many of Gerson's photographs that went on sale at auction house Bonhams, including the 'Faber Poets' – Louis MacNeice, Ted Hughes, T S Eliot, W H Auden, and Stephen Spender – at a literary function in 1960, which can also be seen in the National Portrait Gallery.