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Aeschylus

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Anonymous

Richard Mckeon, Ed. Aristotle;

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Jean M. Auel

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Charles Barkley

Harry Benson
Roland Barthes

Susan Bassnett

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Daniel Carter Beard

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

R. D Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Ancius Boethius

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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Bunyan

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Seamus Kearney
Julius Caesar

public domain
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

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

Willa Cather

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-115428)
Geoffrey Chaucer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G.K. Chesterton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
The Art Institute of Chicago

Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

American Kennel Club

Hound Group, AKC World Series of Dog Shows, Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas, 2006. Photo by Ed Schipul / Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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)
Robert Coover

Jorge Cruise

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Crystal

Marion Cunningham

Clive Cussler

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joanne Dobson

John Donne

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
George Eliot

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

Euripides

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

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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; Translated By: Marx-Aveling Flaubert, Eleanor

Ian Fleming

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jonathan Franzen

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressIna Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
David Halberstam

Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
John Hollander

David A. Hollinger

University of California Berkeley
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames Joyce

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

Harvey Karp

navy.mil
Barbara Keesling

Michael Maron
Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated by Beck, Charles

Caroline Knapp

Anne Lamott

Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
G. Leick

C.S. Lewis

Livy

from Wikipedia
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Catherine Marshall

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Ngaio Marsh

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne DuMaurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Sharyn McCrumb

Colleen McCullough

Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Rand McNally

A. A. Milne

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

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Napoleon

Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, circa 1801
Miriam Nelson

Pablo Neruda

Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
John Henry Cardinal Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Robert Nozick

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marc Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueSuze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Lou Paget

Iain Pears

M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Anne Perry

Elizabeth Peters

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Plato

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

Emily Post

1912 photograph
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101761)
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Mary Renault

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rick Rodgers

Brian Doben
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
j.D. Salinger

Ellen Sandbeck

Photograph by Ann Klefstad
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Sir Walter Scott

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

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Adam Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Mark Strand

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
John M. Synge

From Wikipedia
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Don Tapscott

Robert Scoble
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William M. Thackery

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Aquinas

J.R.R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Calvin Trillin

Anthony Trollope

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sigrid Undset

Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Jean Webster

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Noah Webster

From Wikipedia Commons
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
Jessamyn West

from Wikipedia
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

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

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

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP. G. Wodehouse

Tiger Woods

Credit: Paddy Briggs
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
C. Leonard Woolley

William Wordsworth

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

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