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Wikipédia France
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Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
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Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Anouilh Jean

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Sir David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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Marcel Aymé

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Johann Sebastian Bach

Wikipedia.
Rosemary Bailey

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Henri Barbusse

Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (1874-1945)
(AP Watt)
Cicely Mary Barker

Julian Barnes

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H.E. Bates

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Charles Baudelaire

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Simone de Beauvoir

Beckett Samuel

Sir Thomas Beecham

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Antony Beevor

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Alan Bennett

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John Berendt

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Louis De Bernieres

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John Betjeman

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Raymond Blanc

LE MANOIR AUX QUAT' SAISONS
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Volker Braun

October 2006
Bertolt Brecht

Clemens Brentano

Meyer's Encyclopedia (1906)
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Charlotte Bronte

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

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Mikhail Bulgakov

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Michael Busselle

John Calder

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Caius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Charles Causley

Paul Cézanne

Self-portrait, circa 1883-1887
(Yorck Project)
Mehdi Charef

Bruce Chatwin

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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A.P. Chekhov

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Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
William Cobbett

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Jean Cocteau

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Paulo Coelho

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
J.Hector St.John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
David Crystal

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Daudet Alphonse

Wikipédia France
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
E. M. Delafield

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Donnelly

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Sean Dooley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
F.M. Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Frederick Douglass

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Carol Drinkwater

Annette Von Droste- Hulshoff

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Joachim Du Bellay

Wikipédia France
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Joseph Frhr. von Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
George Eliot

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T. S. Eliot

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Harold Evans

Dana Facaros

Orlando Figes

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

Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque

John Fox

John Fox (3)
France Anatole

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Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Max Frisch

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressRoger Eliot Fry

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jostein; Moller Gaarder, Paulette (translator)

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Théophile Gautier

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NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arnold Genthe

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-G405-T-0048)
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Gide André

1893
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Giraudoux Jean

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
George Gissing

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David M. Glantz

carl.army.mil
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Gogol N

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
M.S. Gorbachev

Pete Souza
Maksim Gorky

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Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
А. С. Грибоедов

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128269)
Jane Grigson

Franz Grillparzer

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
George Grossmith

public domain image
Guitry Sacha

Sacha Guitry with his wife: Image ©
ÖNB/WienJames Hall

Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Sir Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Stefan Heym

Photo by Rainer Weisflog. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-031)
Hibbert Christopher

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
E.J. Hobsbawm

E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Heinrich Hoffmann

Wikimedia Commons
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Friedrich Ho lderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Jack Holland

Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Edward Hopper

Self Portrait, 1906
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Alexander von Humboldt

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Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eugène Ionesco

Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Paul Jackson

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Jerome K. Jerome

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Colin Jones

Griff Rhys Jones

James Joyce

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Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Hugh Kenner

Ian Kershaw

Sergei Khrushchev

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Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Ross King

CHARLES KINGSLEY

wikipedia
Heinrich von Kleist

Friedrich M. Klinger

Walter Krämer

from the author
Ivan (Verse Translated By Bernard Pares) Krylov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photogrpahs, LC-USZ62-128274)
Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Lacan Jacques

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
F.R. Leavis

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Jakob M. R. Lenz

Aldo Leopold

Mikhai l Iı̐ Uı̐Łr £evich Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

David Lodge

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Susan Herrmann Loomis

Musée du Louvre

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Robert Lowell

Georg Lukacs

Della Lutes

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Rory MacLean

S. Mallarmé

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Ste phane Mallarme

Wikipédia France
Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Nadezhda Mandel £shtam

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Dacia Maraini

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Pierre Carlet De Chamblain De Marivaux

Wikipedia
Marot Clément

Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez

John Martin

John Martin (1789-1854) / by James Thomson / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAndrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Groucho Marx

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John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Matthias Matussek

Matthias Matussek, Ludwig Börne Award Ceremony, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. Photo by user dontworry / Wikimedia Commons.
Guy De. Translated by H.N.P. Sloman. Maupassant

Maurois Andre

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Peter Mayle

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Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
A. A. Milne

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CZESLAW MILOSZ

MDCarchives
John Milton

Rohinton Mistry

Jessica Mitford

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Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
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Molière

Wikipédia France
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Charles de Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Christian Morgenstern

Jan Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Merimee

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Kate Muir

British Museum (Natural History)

The British Museum
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Vladimir Nabokov

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V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
N. A. Nekrasov

Photo on carte de visite mount, circa 1880-1886
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LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128250)
Irène Némirovsky

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Charles Nodier

Novalis

Flannery O'connor

George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Samuel Pepys

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Charles Perrault

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Jean Potocki

wikipedia
Lily Prior

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Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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Thomas Pynchon

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Gordon Ramsay

Maurice Ravel

Sir Herbert Edward Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Remarque Erich Maria

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Peter. Rühmkorf

Photo by user Ottoerich / Wikimedia Commons
Rilke; translated with an Introduction By J. B. Leishman

Arthur Rimbaud

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Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienGraham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Michele Roberts

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Henri-Pierre Roche

3rd man in is Roché
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Pierre De Ronsard

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Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

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Bertrand Russell

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Anatolii Rybakov

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

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Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Friedrich von Schlegel

Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienLucius Annaeus Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sue Shephard

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Anita Shreve

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Bastian Sick

Bastian Sick in April 2008 - Picture by Flominator (Florian Straub)
Georges Simenon

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ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

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Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Delia Smith

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Samantha Smith

Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
National Geographic Society

Sophocles

Hilary Spurling

Clare Kendall
Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Sir Richard Steele

Gertrude Stein

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Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Anne Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Stifter

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
TACITUS

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Frederick Taylor

Paul Theroux

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

Poems, 1917
Olivier Todd

Françoise Viard
Alice B Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J R R Tolkien

Ernst Toller

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-37042
L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Michel Tournier

Rose Tremain

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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Anne Tyler

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Louis (editor) Untermeyer

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Paul Valery

Various

Paul Verlaine

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Salley Vickers

Francois Villon

Virgil

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Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Wilhelm H. Wackenroder

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Martin Walker

© Bastian Schweitzer / Diogenes Verlag
John Walsh

President Bush signs H.R. 4472, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, as John Walsh, center, and his wife, Reve Walsh, look on. The bill is named for the Walsh’s six-year-old son Adam Walsh who was abducted and killed 25 years ago.
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienPeter Weston

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Walt Whitman

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(Wikipedia)
Wiesel-E

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Charles Williams

John Williams

Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Brenda Wineapple

2003 Joyce Ravid
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Pliny the Younger

Wolfgang Sauber
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Alfred M. De Zayas

Emile Zola

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Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
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