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Anon.

Paperback Pirate
Douglas Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Edward Albee

Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W.H. Auden

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Samuel Beckett

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Bewick

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

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Ray Bradbury

Anne Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Photo by Dale Hubert ©1999
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Anthony Burgess

Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
John Le Carre

David Carroll

Photo by Kyla Ward
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Susanna Clarke

Paulo Coelho

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Zizou Corder

Louisa Young and Isabel Adomakoh Young
William Cowper

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
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)
William Dampier

Project Gutenberg: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Umberto Eco

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

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

Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Niall Ferguson

F.Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
George Grossmith

public domain image
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
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.
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Alexander Von Humboldt

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
M.R. James

www.stephengray.net
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Owen Johnson

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Justinian

Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale., Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna. From
WikipediaOmar Khayya'm

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Clive Staples Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Livy

from Wikipedia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
of Samosata Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sir John Mandeville

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daphne Du Maurier

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
James Meek

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Sean O'Brien

Gerry Wardle
George Orwell

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

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Samuel Pepys

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

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
OUP

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Malcolm Pryce

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Arthur Thomas, Quiller-Couch

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

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Julian Rathbone

Samuel Richardson

Justina Robson

Christina Rosetti

from Wikipedia
Jean Jaques Rousseau

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

Arundhati Roy

Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Walter Scott

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

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sir Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Cornelius Tacitus

Alfred Tennyson

the editors of Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
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
Various

Virgil

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

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Oscar Wilde

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

jeanettewinterson.com
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
W.B. Yeats

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