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Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Aesopus

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Ken Alder

Swetlana Alliloejewa

Wikipedia
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Lou Andreas-Salome

Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.J. Ayer


Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Béla Bartók

Bartok in 1927. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Simone de Beauvoir

Frederic Beigbeder

Photo by Max Khokhlov
Martin Bell

Saul Bellow

Edvard Beneš

Jeremy Bentham

Michael R. Beschloss

Library of Congress
Andrei Bitov

Dmitry Rozhkov
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

1923
Heinrich Böll

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

Athena Gassoumis
W.Michael Blumenthal

W. Michael Blumenthal (b. 1926) / Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Boëthius

Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Godfried Bomans

Artyom Borovik

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Boudewijn Bouckaert

Boudewijn Bouckaert (1947-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, May 18th, 2005.
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Malcolm Bradbury

Barbara Branden

David Harmon
Nathaniel Branden

Fernand Braudel

Gerbrand Bredero

Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Mick Brown

Philip Hollis
Herman Brusselmans

Herman Brusselmans (Herman Frans Martha ; 1957-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, November 5th, 2005.
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Margaret Buber-Neumann

John Burlinson
Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
William Buckley Jr

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Cyriel Buysse

Plaque honoring Cyriel Buysee. Photo by user Spotter2 / Wikimedia Commons.
David Byrne

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
James F. Byrnes

Wikipedia (Library of Congress, from U.S. Office of War Information)
Cain James M.

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

U.S. Food & Drug Administration
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)
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Cavanna-F

Georges Seguin
Benvenuto Cellini


Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
John Cheever

Mark Childress

Winston S. Churchill

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

edited by Hugh Gibson Ciano, Intro by Sumner Welles Count Galeazzo

Stanley Cloud

© 2003 Claudio Vasquez
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins

J.M. Coetzee

Warren Commission

LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton
Joseph. Conrad

from Wikipedia
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
E.E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)

Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Richard Dawkins

Don DeLillo

War Department

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
René Descartes

from Wikipedia

Denis Diderot

Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
J.P. Donleavy

F.M. Dostojevski

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Canon Doyle

from Wikipedia
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Johann Peter Eckermann

Johann Joseph Schmeller (1825)
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
T.S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Havelock Ellis


James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Erasmus

Victor Erofeyev

www.everyfoto.com
Péter Esterházy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Rudolf Eucken

From " The New York Times
Current History of the European War," 1915 ~ Project Gutenberg
David Faber

Wikipedia
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Herbert Feis

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21601)
Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Robert Fisk

Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
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)
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Saul Friedlander

Saul Friedlander
Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Max Frisch

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
José Ortega y Gasset

George Eric Rowe Gedye

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

André Gide

1893
Karl A. Gjellerup

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
Joseph Goebbels

Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaj Vasiljevitsj Gogol

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

Edmond De Goncourt

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

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Baltasar Gracián

Cervantes Institute
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Julian Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Gunther Von Hagens

Credit: Túrelio (Wikipedia user), 2000, Köln, Germany
H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Václav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
F. A. Hayek

Samuel Falkland

Photo by J.M. Luijt / Wikimedia Commons.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Christoph Hein

Photo by Hubert Link. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-051)
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)
Nevile Henderson

Paul Heyse

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

2006 Tim Chapman
E.J. Hobsbawm

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Arthur Honegger

Michel Houellebecq


Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
J. Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Inge

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Leoš Janáček

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Elfriede Jelinek

Peter Johnson

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Immanuel Kant

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Douglas Kennedy

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

Ian Kershaw

Rudyard Kipling

Egon E. Kisch

Henry A. Kissinger

Otto Klemperer


Ivan Klíma

Pavel Kohout


Milan Kundera

Benjamin Kuras

Photo by user Dezidor / Czech Wikipedia.
Jacques Lacan

Pär Lagerkvist

Selma Lagerlöf

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

wikipedia
Hubert Lampo

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Halldór Kiljan Laxness

Timothy Leary

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

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Primo Levi

Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo of Suzanne Lilar taken by her daughter, Marie Fredericq-Lilar
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Emil Ludwig

Arnold Lustig

Photo by user che / Czech Wikipedia.
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles MacKay

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Alma Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Hector Malot

Nelson Mandela

Nadezhda Mandel'shtam

Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

Mao Tse-toeng

from Wikipedia
Herbert Marcuse

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
T.G. Masaryk

Maurois Andre

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

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Robert S. McNamara

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Feb. 9, 1968, Cabinet meeting, White House
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Henry Miller

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

MDCarchives
Charles Mingus

Tom Marcello, July 4, 1976
Ludwig Von Mises


Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
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
Alberto. Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Axel Munthe

Public domain
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil

Mussolini Benito

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-34899
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Jan Neruda (1834-1891)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Kenzaburo Oë


P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Paul Van Ostaijen

Statue of Paul Van Ostaijen, Antwerp. Photo by user BrianKgs / Dutch Wikipedia.
Franz von Papen

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Samuel Pepys

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

Arbiter Petronius

DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Luigi Pirandello

Platoon

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Roy Porter

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Heather Pringle

Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Francisco de Quevedo

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

W.V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Ayn Rand

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

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Jeremy Rifkin

Rainer Maria Rilke

Romain Rolland

Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Nicholas Royle

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Bertrand Russell

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

from Wikipedia
markies D.A.F. 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)

J.D. Salinger

Hjalmar Schacht

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienArthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Semprun

Dinkley
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Eduard Shevardnadze

DoD photo by Helene C. Stikkel
(defenselink.mil)
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Office of War Information, 1942
Alix Kates Shulman

photographer, Marion Ettlinger
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Georges Simenon

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

public domain
Adam Smith

Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Mickey Spillane

Constantin Stanislavski

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35320
Kenneth Starr

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Peter Stearns

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
George Steiner

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Geneviève Tabouis

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
William Taubman

Columbia University
Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
J.R.R. Tolkien

L. N. Tolstoi

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Michel Tournier

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Arnold J. Toynbee

Ivan S. Toergenjev

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

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various contributors

Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov

molodguard.ru
Émile Verhaeren

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Dimitri Verhulst

Verne

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

Horace Walpole

Bruno Walter

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Andy Warhol

Otto Weininger

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienFranz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Richard Stark

Donald westlake by Jean-Marie David
Date
Quai du polar, Lyon, 2006
Source
Jean-Marie David (own work)
Author
Jean-Marie David
Walt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
OSCAR WILDE

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

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Tom Wolfe

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W.B. Yeats

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

John Burlinson
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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