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D'Arcy Norman
Abélard

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826)
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
(Wikipedia)
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Theodor W. Adorno

César Aira

A. Achmatova

wikimedia commons
Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Edward Albee

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anonimo

Jean Anouilh

Michelangelo Antonioni

Elena Torre
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Arjouni

Achim von Arnim

Painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling (1805)
Fernando Arrabal

Stoisto
Antonin Artaud

Hans C. Artmann

Miguel Angel Asturias

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Hartmann von Aue

Portrait of Hartmann von Aue from the Codex Manesse
Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Johann Sebastian Bach

Wikipedia.
Ingeborg Bachmann

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff: Selfportrait with palette, 1880
From Wikimedia
H. E. BATES

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Wolfgang Bauer

Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Georg Büchner

Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Simone de Beauvoir

Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Samuel Beckett

Bede

Brendan Behan

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Juan Benet

J. L. Cabanyal (Claude at findagrave.com)
Walter Benjamin

Ingmar Bergman

George Berkeley

Bernardus van Clairvaux

Christ and St. Bernard by Francisco Ribalta, early 17th century.
Thomas Bernhard

Wolf Biermann

Photo by Hans Weingartz / German Wikipedia.
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Maurice Blanchot

Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Ernst Bloch

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
S. Bonaventura

wikipedia

Jorge Luis Borges

A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint

Engraving by Auguste Hüssener (1789-1877)
James Boswell

P.C. Boutens

Portrait by Jan Toorop (1908)
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Malcolm Bradbury

Sebastian Brant

Project Gutenberg
Thomas Brasch

Thomas Brasch, 1993. Photo by Marion Brasch / Wikimedia Commons.
Volker Braun

October 2006
Richard Brautigan

Clemens Brentano

Meyer's Encyclopedia (1906)
André Breton

Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream

Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Christine Brooke-Rose

Carcanet Press
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Giordano Bruno

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Nikolaj I. Bucharin

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Christine Buci-Glucksmann

portrait by Joseph Nechvatal
Luis Buñuel

Anthony Burgess

Robert Burns

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Cd. Busken Huet

Conrad Busken Huet (1826-1886)
Michel Butor

Ernest Callenbach

William H. Calvin

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Karel Čapek

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Ernesto Cardenal

photo by Linda Lambert
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carré

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Jacob Cats

Jacob Cats, painting by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1634 - located in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Camilo Jose Cela

ÁWá

Paul Celan

Benvenuto Cellini

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Lee Child


Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Eduard Claudius

Eduard Claudius (links). Photo by Klaus Franke. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv 183-F0510-0045-001)
Jean Cocteau

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. M. Coetzee

Nik Cohn

Ken Nahoum
A. D. Coleman

Photo by Steven Speliotis.
Colette

from Wikipedia
Johann Amos Comenius

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Cornwell

Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Robert Crais

A.J. Cronin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David Crystal

Salvador Dali

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antonio R Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

From "Revue Illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Dawkins

Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Régis Debray

Régis Debray in 1970
Andrea De Carlo

www.andreadecarlo.com
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
E.L. Doctorow

J.P. Donleavy

John Donne

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Bust of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Havixbeck, Germany. Photo by Marc Ryckaert / Wikimedia Commons.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas fils

Isadora Duncan

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-05654 (cropped)
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Bob Dylan

Isabelle Eberhardt

Wikimedia Commons
Georg Ebers

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Gerald M. Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
David Edmonds

Joseph Frhr. von Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Deborah Eisenberg

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
Ralph Ellison

Bernt Engelmann

Bernt Engelmann (right). Photo by Gabriele Senft. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0714-305)
Hans M. Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Gabriel Fauré

Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré (1845 –1924) by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (The Paris Museum of Music). (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Johann Fischart

F.Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gustave Flaubert

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Anatole France

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Cynthia A. Freeland

Courtesy of the author.
Max Frisch

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Benito Pérez Galdóz

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Barbara Garson

Barbara Garson (right) with Jeremy Brecher and Carola Reintjas at World Social Forum 3, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003. (courtesy of
ZNet)
José Ortega y Gasset

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
André Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Jean-Luc Godard

James Stencilowsky
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Edmond de Goncourt

Photo by Félix Nadar
(courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Belén Gopegui

Photo by Juan Miguel León Rojas.
Jeremias Gotthelf

From Wikimedia Commons
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Drawing by Theodor Hildebrandt (1832)
Baltasar Gracián

Cervantes Institute
Almudena Grandes

Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Graham Greene

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Franz Grillparzer

H. J. Chr. v. Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
George Grosz

Andreas Gryphius

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thom Gunn

Lars Gustafsson

Suz
John Guy

Author's website
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Händel

Wikipedia Commons.
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
S.W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Friedrich Hebbel

DDR-Stamp
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gregory Hemingway

Ernest (right) and Gregory Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Eckhard Henscheid

Photo by Hans Weingartz, 2005. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Henschx.jpg
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Noreena Hertz

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ernst T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia

Friedrich Hoelderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Arianna Stassinopoulos

J. Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Husserl

Ulrich von Hutten

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Wikipédia France
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Adamnan

Scenes from Adomnan's Life of St. Columba. Image from the Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1042 (A size))
Eugène Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksAlfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Alejandro Jodorowsky

© Ana Bolívar (www.anabolivar.com)
LeRoi Jones

Library of Congress
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
John Keats

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Jack Kerouac

Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Paul Klee

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Heinrich von Kleist

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Oskar Kokoschka

Jerzy Kosinski

Tim Krabbé

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
A. Kuyper

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
George Lakoff

Isidore Ducasse

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Timothy Leary

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Fran Lebowitz

Credit: Christopher Peterson, 2007
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

V. I. Lenin

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Donna Leon

Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Daniel J. Levitin

Sinclair Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Anita Loos

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Federico García Lorca

Guillaume de Lorris

Pierre Loti

Octave Uzanne
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Emil Ludwig

Martin Luther

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Joseph de Maistre

wikimedia - portrait by Karl Vogel von Vogelstein, ca. 1810
Stéphane Mallarmé

Wikipédia France
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Charles Robert Maturin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Tom McCarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Robert Menasse

Eduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
Olivier Messiaen

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Juan Jose Millas

Miguel A. Monjas
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Mark Crispin Miller

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Kate Millett

Czesław Miłosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Octave Mirbeau

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Molière

Wikipédia France
Theodor Mommsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eduard Mörike

Wikimedia Commons
Harry Mulisch

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
V S Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Antonio Negri

Pablo Neruda

Gérard de Nerval

Johann Nestroy

Anaïs Nin

Julian of Norwich

Amélie Nothomb

Novalis

Robert, NOZICK

Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna O'Brien

Juan Carlos Onetti

Michel Onfray

Martin Opitz

Stich von Jakob von Heyden, 1631. "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905), Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Seite 65
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Oskar Panizza

Wikipedia
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/panizza.htm
Dorothy Parker

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Octavio Paz

George P. Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
D A Pennebaker

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
SAMUEL PEPYS

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Henry Petroski

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plutarchus

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Lorenzo Da Ponte

18th century portrait of Lorenzo da Ponte
Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEzra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Marcel Proust

Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
THOMAS PYNCHON

Francisco de Quevedo

Painting, copy of a lost work by Velazquez
Thomas de Quincey

Wilhelm Raabe

François Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner, SJ, 1975. Image © Agenzia Fides.
Ian. Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Piers Paul Read

Hubert Reeves

Original source:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Reeves.jpg
Photographie d'Hubert Reeves prise par l'utilisateur Gingko le 5 juin 2004
Kathy Reichs

Johannes Reuchlin

Nordisk familjebok
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Luise Rinser

(Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0714-302)
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienPeter Robinson

Henriëtte Roland Holst

Portrait by M. de Klerk (1884-1923)
Jules Romains

Jules Romains, 1936. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870
Joseph Roth

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Umberto Saba

Chiara Marra, August 17, 2007
Hans Sachs

"Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905), Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Seite 59
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
V. SACKVILLE-WEST

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Louis duc de Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J. D. Salinger

José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
JEREMY SCAHILL

Arthur van Schendel

Photograph by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Friedrich von Schiller

Friedrich Schlegel

Arno Schmidt

Erwin Schrödinger

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
John Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Winfried G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Anna Seghers

Photo by Joachim Spremberg. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F0114-0204-004)
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-112307
Victor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
Elif Shafak

Bahar
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Rupert Sheldrake

Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Alan Sillitoe

Claude Simon

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Karin Slaughter

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
C. P. Snow

Dava SOBEL

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Philippe Sollers

Susan Sontag

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson

Spinoza

Gayatri Spivak

Shin-Lun Chang, Wikimedia Commons
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gertrude Stein

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Adalbert Stifter

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Gottfried von Straßburg

P. F. Strawson

Emanuel Swedenborg

from Wikipedia
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Torquato Tasso

wikimedia commons
Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Ludwig Tieck

J.R.R. Tolkien

Michel Tournier

Georg Trakl

Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Photo by André Karwath / Wikimedia Commons
Ilija Trojanow

Photo by Effi Schweizer / Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Andrew Turnbull

Andrew Turnbull, 1962. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tse

Ludwig Uhland

Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
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