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Edward Abbey

Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Antonin Artaud

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W. H. Auden

Coleman Barks

Photo by Mark Barry / Flickr.
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Brian Bates

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
J. M. Bedell

Courtesy of J. M. Bedell
Nikolai Berdyaev

Henri Bergson

Wendell Berry

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
William Bloom

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Franz Boas

In collection of American Philosophical Society, F8.1.16.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

John Boorman

Photo by Mario Antonio Pena Zapateria, Spain (Flickr)
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Martin Buber

Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Thomas Bulfinch

Jesse L. Byock

Lord George Gordon Byron

Caesar

public domain
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Nicholas Campion

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Courtesy of the author.
Francis James Child

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
John B. Cobb Jr.

Silversoul7
Loren Coleman

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Henry Corbin

Phil Cousineau

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Aleister Crowley

Frank Hamilton Cushing

Ray Davies

Flavio Ferrari, October 28, 2007
Erik Davis

Chris Mays
Carl Dennis

Columbia University
Dillard Annie

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Ivan Stang

The portrait of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of SubGenius Foundation Inc. and is used with permission.
Lon Milo Duquette

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
David Edmonds

T. S. Eliot

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
W.Y. Evans Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
Marsilio Ficino

Bust by Andrea Ferrucci (at Florence Cathedral)
Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
St. Francis Of Assisi

Stigmatisation of St. Francis by El Greco, 1585.
George MacDonald Fraser

Sir James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJohn Kennedy Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Cynthia Giles

Terry Gilliam

Sweden, March 1985,
promoting 'Brazi"
(Credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
William Goldman

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

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

Lady Gregory

From Wikimedia Commons
Ursula K. Le Guin

G. I. Gurdjieff

loc.gov: Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers.
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Joan Halifax

Photo by George Jisho Robertson / Flickr.
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Edith Hamilton

Thich Nhat Hanh

Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Paul Hawken

S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Seamus Heaney

Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Nick Herbert

James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Ken Hite

Photo by Lilithcat
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Jean Houston

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Jalal Al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
William James

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

John Burlinson
Robinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
C.G. Jung

John Keats

Ted Kerasote

Source: http://www.kerasote.com/merle-photos.html
Kiew Kit Wong

Sifu Wong Kiew Kit
Ted Kooser

Akira Kurosawa

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

The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
T E Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Aldo Leopold

Noah Levine

Photo by: Dave Coleman
Claude Levi-Strauss

C. S. Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Christopher Logue

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Flickr user Trudi_
Joanna Macy

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Leonard Maltin

David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
H. L. Mencken

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienBill Moyer

Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Scott Nearing

Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Gananath Obeyesekere

Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere. Photo byDenise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Wendy Doniger

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
George Orwell

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

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Charles Panati

David Peat

fdavidpeat.com
Donald Peattie

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Daniel Pinchbeck

Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Rachel Pollack

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
John Rawls

Kenneth Rexroth

David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Sax (pen name used by Arthur Sarsfield Ward) Rohmer

Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
John Sayles

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Sir Walter Scott

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Rupert Sheldrake

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Paul (trans.) Sophocles; Roche

Rudolf Steiner

Adin Steinsaltz

WIkipedia
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Christopher Stone

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Gottfried von Strassburg

Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Emanuel Swedenborg

from Wikipedia
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Thompson

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
Hunter S. Thompson

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Robert Thurman

Photo by Tenzin Nyima
Michael Toms

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Pete Townshend

Ian MacIsaac, March 9th, 2007
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sun Tzu

Various

Immanuel Velikovsky

Donna Foster Roizen
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
David Wagoner

Robin Seyfried
Arthur Edward Waite

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Andrew Weil M.D.

John R. Ziemann
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Charles Williams

C. K. Williams

Columbia University
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edmund Wilson

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

Flickr user dbuk2
Paul Woodruff

Marsha Miller
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Chuang Tzu

www.iep.utm.edu
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