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James Agee

Tchinghiz Aïtmatov

Andreas Zak
Louisa May Alcott

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonyme

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Hannah Arendt

Aristote

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marcel Aymé

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Maurice Barrès

wikipedia
Roland Barthes

Bashô

Portrait of Basho by Buson

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Francis Beaumont

Samuel Beckett

Andréi Biély

Portrait by Leon Bakst
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Cyrano de Bergerac

Wikipedia
Ingmar Bergman

Henri Bergson

Georges Bernanos

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

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

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

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Léon Bloy

Photography (1887)
Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Hermann Broch

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Robert Browning

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

Wikiépdia France
Mikhail Boulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Luis Buñuel

William Seward Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Bartolomé de las Casas

from Wikipedia
François Cavanna

Georges Seguin
Paul Celan

François-René de Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Lars Saabye Christensen

Source: Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers' website
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

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

Rita Molnár
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

From "Revue Illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Dawkins

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

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

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Joachim Du Bellay

Wikipédia France
Alexandre Dumas

Jean Echenoz

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Rupert Everett

Vicki Neave
Howard Fast

Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
HELEN FIELDING

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
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

F'Murrr

Georges Seguin
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Robert Frost

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Jean Genet

Maurice Genevoix

Wikipédia France
André Gide

1893
Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)
Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, comte de

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

Wikipédia France
Nicolas Gogol

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

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Gontcharov

Rémy de Gourmont

Les amateurs de Rémy de Gourmont
Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Jakob and Wilhelm 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.)
Hafez de Chiraz

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
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.
Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
James Hogg

Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Billie Holiday

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116612 DLC
Homère

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ricarda Huch

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
James Joyce

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

Emmanuel Kant

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Elia Kazan

James Kavallines. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16773
John Keats

Joseph Kessel

Wikipédia France

Omar Khayyâm

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Sören Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Heinrich von Kleist


Milan Kundera

Pierre-Amboise-François Choderlos de Laclos

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


Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Lautréamont

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com

Primo Levi

Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Dinkley
Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Richard Matheson

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Molière

Wikipédia France
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Morris

copyright Greyhead
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Pablo Neruda

Nerval Gérard de

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Barack Obama

Edna O'Brien

Flannery O'Connor

Liam O'Flaherty

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

Michel Onfray

Arto Paasilinna

Matti Järvinen
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Fernando Pessoa

Pétrone

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Platon

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

from Wikipedia
Abbé Prévost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Alexandre Pouchkine

courtesy Wikipedia

François Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
Jules Renard

Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Georges Rodenbach

Georges Rodenbach. Frontispiece from Georges Rodenbach (1920) by Georges Ramaekers
Romain Rolland

Pierre de Ronsard

Wikipédia France
Joseph Roth

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 Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Donatien Alphonse François 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)
Saint-Simon

Portrait by Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (1887)
Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Paul Scarron

wikimedia commons
Bernhard Schlink

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

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRichard Sennett

Photo by Lilithcat
Luis Sepúlveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
Joann Sfar

Credit: Jean-noël Lafargue, 2003

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Stephen Spender

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Benedictus de Spinoza

Wesley Stace

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
George Steiner

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
John Millington Synge

From Wikipedia
W. M. Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emmanuel Todd

Author:
Legermi http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legermi

Léon Tolstoï

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Michel Tournier

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao-Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
François Villon

Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Evelyn Waugh

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

Franz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Walt Whitman

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

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

P.G. Wodehouse

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)
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Larry J. Zimmerman

Photo provided by DrBubbles.
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
Stefan Zweig

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