Barry Moser is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed wood engravers in the world. Portraits have long been a staple of his career, from his first book in 1970, through to the present day. "One Hundred Portraits" brings together a collection of fifty of Moser's best known portraits, and fifty new ones created especially for this volume. The portraits include: Charles Dickens; Edgar Allen Poe; Martin Luther King; Jane Austen; Abraham Lincoln; William Shakespeare; Walt Whitman; and many more.This volume also includes an essay by the Orange Award-winning writer Ann Patchett that closely examines Moser's portraits and the subject of portraiture in general.