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Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus.,

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Dante Alighieri,

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

ARISTOTLE

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

©Rowena
W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo


Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton

Paul Bowles

Ray Bradbury

Rob Brezsny

Photo by Brian Eisley. Taken at Burning Man 2003.
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
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Sir Edward G. E. Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
ButlerSamuel

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Orson Scott Card

Edward Carpenter

From Wikimedia Commons
Lewis Carroll

Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce in October 1910, when this photograph appeared on the front page of The New York Times.
John Chaffee

Jerry Bauer
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

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

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Lon Milo DuQuette

Will Durant

Umberto Eco

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

http://www.ransomedheart.com/images/rh_skin/johnEldredge.jpg
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euclid.,

Engraved image of Euclid
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard J. Foster

John Fowles

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

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

Allen and Unwin
Neil Gaiman

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gilbert

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Amit Goswami

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert (Introduced By Kenneth McLeish) Graves

The William Graves Collection
the Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

G. I. Gurdjieff

loc.gov: Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers.
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Hippocrates.,

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer.,

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
W H (William Henry) Hudson

wikipedia.org
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Robert Maynard Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen.

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

John Burlinson
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Kaufeld

GAMA booth at Book Expo America 2007, photo by Lampbane
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Robert Kirkman

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Milan Kundera


Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Anne Lamott

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Abraham Lincoln

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Titus Lucretius Carus

Niccolò Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Brennan Manning

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.)

Thomas Mann

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Brian D. McLaren

Photo by user Virgil Vaduva / English Wikipedia.
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
China Mieville

Mark Millar

Tony Millionaire

Eisner Awards @ Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
John Milton

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
baron de Charles de Secondat Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSir Thomas more

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Samuel Eliot (translated and edited by) Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Stephen Morris

Stephen Morris (on left) with Ralf Little. Author photo: Matthew Mansfield
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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)
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

Albert Pike

Brigadier-General Albert Pike, C.S.A., Commander of the Indian Forces at the Battle of Pea Ridge, etching from a photograph.

Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

Plutarch.,

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
J. C. Polkinghorne

Pollan Michael

michaelpollan.com
Francine Prose

Marcel Proust

Ptolemy,

public domain - see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ptolemaeus.jpg

Thomas de Quincey

François Rabelais

Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Jane Roberts

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
James M. Robinson

Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Jean-Paul Sartre

Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
W. G.Clark and W. Aldis Wright

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Mordecai Siegal

Photograph by Shel Secunda
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer Townsend, Translation of George Fyler

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

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
University of Chicago Press Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Garth Stein

Andrea Stein
Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle.

Johan Olaf Sodemark

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Charles Stross

Emanuel Swedenborg

from Wikipedia
Cornelius Tacitus

Aquinas Thomas, Saint


Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia

Lao Tsu

Sigrid Undset

Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Virgil.,

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Arthur Edward Waite

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

Simone Weil

H G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Franz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Thornton Wilder

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

Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Charles Wright

eralon
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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