Anarchist Portraits is a 1988 history book by Paul Avrich about the lives and personalities of multiple prominent and inconspicuous anarchists.

Anarchist Portraits is a series of biographical studies about the American anarchist movement written by Paul Avrich over twenty years. At the time, Avrich was the foremost scholar of the history of anarchism. He intended his vignettes to reflect the character of the anarchist movement through the lives of individual participants from the late 19th century through the 1930s. He draws from personal interviews and old periodicals across multiple languages. Some of the chapters are revisions of prior essays.^[1]

The essay's anarchist subjects are largely European emigrants to the United States, such as Mollie Steimer and Charles Mowbray. He also covers other Russian, Italian, and Jewish anarchist immigrants.^[1]

Avrich also writes about anarchist luminaries who visited the United States, such as Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. Bakunin visited the United States in 1861 before the movement had momentum, while Kropotkin attracted crowds.^[1]

• Mikhail Bakunin
• Peter Kropotkin
• Chummy Fleming
• Sergey Nechayev
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Nestor Makhno
• Eikhenbaum/Volin
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Anatoli Zhelezniakov
• Mollie Steimer
• Gustav Landauer
• Ricardo Flores Magón
• Paul Brousse
• Charles Mowbray
• Benjamin Tucker