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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Kingsley Amis

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

Public-conversations
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Aristotle

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

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Pat Barker

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Antony Beevor


Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Anne Bronte

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
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Edmund Burke

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

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
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
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
A.P. Chekhov

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
David Crystal

Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Jacques Derrida

Alan Dershowitz

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

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

Emile Durkheim

Ronald Dworkin

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

Frantz Fanon

Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
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

Ian Fleming

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Fourier

from History of the World, H. F. Helmholt (ed.) (1901)
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Thomas Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Bob Geldof

Credit: Barbara Mürdter, 1991
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Nikolai Gogol

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

The Warburg Institute
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
A.C. Grayling

Graham Greene

George Grossmith

public domain image
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Alberto Korda
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
F.A. Hayek

William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Peter Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
Hermann Hesse

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

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E.J. Hobsbawm

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
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)
Franz Kafka

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Milan Kundera

Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
V.I. Lenin


Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlo Levi

Mark Lilla

Elena Seibert
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Niccolo Machiavelli

James Madison

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daphne du Maurier

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Anthony Minghella

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Jan Morris

John Mortimer


Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Robert Nozick

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Plato

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Marcel Proust

A.S. Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
John Rawls

John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bernhard Schlink

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Amartya Sen

USAID

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
R.C. Sherriff

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Adam Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Susan Sontag

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Rose Tremain

Anthony Trollope

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

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Hal R. Varian

Joi Ito
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Voltaire

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Kevin Young

Library of Congress
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Stefan Zweig

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