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Edward Abbey

Douglas Adams

Mortimer Jerome Adler

MDCarchives
James Agee

Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong (1969).
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Steve Allen

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1987
Jay Allison

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ken Anderson

http://christianheadlines.com/films/images/ka.jpg
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury

Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Debby Applegate

Debby Applegate, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgthe Areopagite. Pseudo-Dionysius

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

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

Jerry Bauer
Charles Arn

Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

of Avila Teresa, Saint

Peter Paul Rubens
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.
Mark Baker

Mark Baker, Author of Books on Welsh Country Houses (Wikipedia)
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Stephen Batchelor

Brian. Bates

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
the Venerable Bede, Saint

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Roy Blount

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Boethius

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Jimmy Breslin

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

John Bright (1811-1889), British politician
Source: "Great Britain and the American Civil War,"
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
(Project Gutenberg)
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Thomas Bulfinch

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ernest Callenbach

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Willa Cather

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

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

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Deepak. Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
James Freeman Clarke

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

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
John B. Cobb

Silversoul7
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienNorman Cousins

Dennis Covington

Justine Veatch with Dennis Covington
Saint John of the Cross

Samuel McChord Crothers

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-04838)
Jim Crotty

Crotty
Cameron Crowe

Andrew Cooper
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ram Dass

Kathleen Murphy
Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
René 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)
Jared M. Diamond

Christopher Dickey

James Dickey

Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Micky Dolenz

Photo by David Shankbone (Wikimedia Commons)
Charles Lincoln Van Doren

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Frederick Douglass

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

Katie Dunning
Will Durant

Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Mary Baker Eddy

Photographic print copyrighted 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-53514)
John Edward

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Bruce S. Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
John Fischer

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.)
Shelby Foote

Malcolm S. Forbes

photo by Alan Light
David Ford

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.)
James Ishmael Ford

Credit: Weasel Tracks (Wikipedia), 2001
Benjamin Franklin

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

Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Susan George

Brendan Gill

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

Ludwig Urning
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
Thaddeus Golas

Credit: Sylvain Despretz (Wikipedia)
William Goldman

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

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Pope Gregory

Pope St. Gregory I by Master Theodorich of Prague, c. 1370.
James L. Haley

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
James Hall

Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Sue Halpern

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

ThÃch Nh& acute;ât Hòanh

Karsten Harries

Courtesy of the author.
Stephen Harrigan

Matt Lankes
Gary Hart

S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Hugh M. Hefner

Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Cropped/Wikipedia & Flickr)
Ernest Hemingway

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

Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

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

James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Billie Holiday

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116612 DLC
Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
L. Ron Hubbard

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaPico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
William James

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
Fenton Johnson

Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Pat Jordan

patjordanstories.com
Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Immanuel Kant

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
à Kempis Thomas

Mr. R.T. Kendall

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.)
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Hans K�ung

Wikimedia Commons
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Paul Kurtz

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurtz-1-.color.jpg.
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

James Legge

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
Primo Levi

Steven Levy

C. S. Lewis

Meriwether Lewis

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

John Burlinson
Abraham Lincoln

Walter Lippmann

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)
James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Huey Pierce Long

1935 cigarette card of Sen. Huey Long (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery) (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Daido Loori

Photo by Jeffrey Radcliffe / Flickr.
of Samosata Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Niccolò Machiavelli

Hakuyˆu Taizan Maezumi

Photo by Peter Cunningham / Flickr.
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Leonard Maltin

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jonathan Marks

Photo courtesy Jonathan Marks.
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez

Don Marquis

Martial

From Wikipedia
Martin E. Marty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Confessor Maximus, Saint

St. Maximus the Confessor mosaic. Image by user aprilandrandy / Flickr.
Charles McCarry

Marshall McLuhan

John McManners

Hugh McManners
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Diane McWhorter

Columbia University
Margaret Mead

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

© Joe Tabacca
H. L. Mencken

Cheryl Mendelson

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Jack Miles

Columbia University
Tom Miller

Photo credit: Jay Rochlin
John Milton

Pankaj Mishra

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More, Sir, Saint

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill D. Moyers

John Nance

Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Robert Nozick

Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

Thomas C. Oden

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.)
Tillie. Olsen

P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Elaine H. Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Leslie Parrott

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Jaroslav Pelikan

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Thomas J. Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Pindar

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Plato. [from old catalog]

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

MDCarchives
Plutarch

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862)
Vance Randolph

Vance Randolph (cropped) from photo held at Library of Congress.
I. A. Richards

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tom Robbins

Henry M. Robert

photographer unknown
Susan Fox Rogers

Alfred Guy
Phyllis Rose

Loyal D. Rue

Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Carl Sagan

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJean-Paul Sartre

Anne Wilson Schaef

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Friedrich Schleiermacher

Leigh Eric Schmidt

Prof. Leigh Eric Schmidt (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Gilbert Seldes

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 (Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 1019)
Hershel Shanks

Suzanne Strempek Shea

Photo by Nancy Palmieri
Lynn Sherr

Edwin Shrake

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Efrem Sigel

David Simon

Source
http://flickr.com/photos/stutefish/399607994/
Date
February 22, 2007
Author
Lori Matsumoto ("stutefish" on flickr)
Sulak Sivaraksa.,

German Wikimedia Commons (by user Individualist)
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Joseph Smith

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Konstantin Stanislavsky

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

Gertrude Stein

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
I. F. Stone

Kzitelman
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Lee Strobel

James Strong

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

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Aquinas Thomas, Saint

Lewis Thomas

Marlo Thomas

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

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Phyllis Tickle

Nancy Brown
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
Calvin Trillin

James Turner

Photo by Adam Hodgson, Flickr
John Updike

Martha Updike
Garcilaso de la Vega

Garcilaso de la Vega
Jim Wallis

Barbara Walters

Photo by Christopher Peterson.
Joseph Wambaugh

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Eudora Welty

Arnold Wesker

John Wesley

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

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

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

Photo by user Gwern / English Wikipedia
Harry F. Wolcott

Courtesy of the author.
Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Maharishi. Mahesh Yogi

Globalgoodnews.com
Stark Young

Al Aumuller / New York World-Telegram and Sun (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-117540)
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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