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U2

Picture provided by Zachary Gillman, Madison Square Garden, NYC, Nov. 21, 2005
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Bryan Adams

Christine V. of Germany (Dublin, 2005)
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Theodor W. Adorno

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Allan Ahlberg

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Louis Althusser

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Tori Amos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Jonty Wilde
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
AJ Ayer

JS Bach

Wikipedia.
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.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac; Introduction-Marion Ayton Crawford

Wikipédia France
Melissa Bank

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
JOHN BANVILLE

Jerry Bauer
Julian B. Barbour

From the author's website www.platonia.com
Linwood Barclay

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Bbc

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Canley (Wikipedia user)
Francis Beaumont

Simone de Beauvoir

Sidney Bechet

Public Record Office, London: document HO45/24778
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Antony Beevor

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Edward Bellamy

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

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

Steve Bell

www.chrismsaunders.co
Walter Benjamin

Peter Bennet

Photograph by Jean Rogers
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Betjeman

M.P.) Celticus. (Aneurin Bevan

Statue of Bevan in Cardiff. Photo by Kaihsu Tai (2005).
Mary Black

Max Pride, 2005
Tony Blair

Paul Morse (2002), cropped.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Ernst Bloch

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Blondie

Photograph taken by Melissa Doroquez, Bumbershoot 2006, Seattle, Wash.
merelymel on flickr
Luigi Boccherini

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Ancius Boethius

Robert Bolt

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

Edward de Bono

Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

George. Borrow

wikipedia
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
David Bowie

Arthur, September 25, 2006
Paul Bowles

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Bertolt Brecht

Raymond Briggs

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Anne Bronte

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 Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Grace Brophy

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Browne Thomas

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
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

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

Credit: Mark Burleigh
Frances Burney

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

A S Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

James M. Cain

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

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Truman Capote

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

Peter CAREY

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
James Carter

D. Höss, 2006
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Chelwood, Viscount, foreword. Cecil of

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil,
1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Source: "The Mirrors of Downing Street,"
by Harold Begbie (New York, 1921)
(Project Gutenberg)
Andrew L. Chaikin

(right) Credit: NASA/Doreen B. Zudell
Tracy Chapman

Musician Tracy Chapman ~ Photo by Steve Jurvetson (Cropped/Flickr)
Ann Charters

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

wikipedia
Noam chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Marcus Cicero

from Wikipedia
Clannad

Clannad performing at Leo's Tavern, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Photo by John McCarthy.
Eric Clapton

Susanna Clarke

Carl Von Clausewitz

Eldridge Cleaver

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

Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Babette Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
John Coltrane

Guilleaz
Confucius

William Congreve

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
robert conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Cornwell

Denis Cotter

Jörg Köster
Jim Crace

The Cranberries

Uploaded to Flickr by Kuan
Ernest Crosby

Copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, 1904
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-73277)
David Crystal

Barry Cunliffe

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

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

Ned Vizzini
Richard Dawkins

Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Kiran Desai

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Bo Diddley

Wikepedia
Denis Diderot

E L Doctorow

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Fats Domino

J. P. Donleavy

John Donne

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

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Pierre M. Duhem

Ian Duhig

Colin Hurst
Alexandre Dumas

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Douglas Dunn

Fay Godwin
Jill Dupleix

DURKHEIM (Emile)

Gerald Durrell

Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

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

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Senate Portrait)
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Empson

John Burlinson
Frederick Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Enya

Niall More, 2007-11-17
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.
Peter Esterhazy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eurythmics

Phil Guest, November 25, 2005
Sheridan Le Fanu

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Niall Ferguson

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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.)
John Fiske

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

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

John Burlinson
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Viktor E. Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Gottlob Frege

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

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

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Peter Gabriel

Joi Ito
JK Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Tate Gallery

Photo by Francesco Gasparetti / Flickr.
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Stan Getz

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Andre Gide

1893
Gilbert and Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
(cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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

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

Wikipédia France
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Ivan Goncharov

Nadine Gordimer

Maxim Gorky

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

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
A.C. Grayling

Thomas Gray

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

Graham Greene

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Martha Grimes

George Grossmith

public domain image
G.I. Gurdjieff

loc.gov: Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers.
John Guy

Author's website
Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Handel

Wikipedia Commons.
Sophie Hannah

Keir hardie

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Francoise Hardy

Roland Godefroy
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Emmylou Harris

C. Kuhl, 2006
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden and wife Barbara Williams (Credit: Jim Gilliam, 2004)
Eliza Haywood

William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin, Heidegger

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

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

Jimi Hendrix

Herodotus

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

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

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Eric Hobsbawm

Chí Minh Hô

wikipedia
David Hockney

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Billie Holiday

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

John Burlinson
Homer

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

Masahiro Sumori
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Nick Hornby

Attia Hosain

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

A.E. Housman

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Husserl

Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Will Hutton

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaThomas Henry Huxley

"Professor Huxley. F.R.S."
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
M.J. Hyland

Henrik Ibsen

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

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christoph Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Holbrook jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Brian Jacques

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
C. L. R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksPeter James

Quintin Jardine

Wikipedia - Uploaded by the author himself
Jerome K. Jerome

Jethro Tull

Craig O'Neal. Dec. 11, 2007
Elton John

Wikipedia user jibegod
Samuel Johnson

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

Norah Jones

Credit: Mohamed ATOUMI, Paris, 2003
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
B. Jowett

Alfred Gudeman
James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
John. Edmund Blunden Keats, ed.

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Christopher Kelly

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Thomas A. Kempis

David Kennedy

Center for American Progress
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

Ian Kershaw

Ken Kesey

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Omar Khayyam

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

Wikipedia
BB King

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Gustav Klimt

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Alexandra Kollontai

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-25077)
Alison Krauss

Nadezhda K. Krupskaya

milan kundera

Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Pierre-Ambrois-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)
Madame de Lafayette

R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Philip Larkin

Asa Larsson

Bilder
Lautréamont

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Leadbelly

Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) and Martha Promise Ledbetter: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00660)
F.R. Leavis

David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von

V.I.Lenin

Annie Lennox

nemahziz, 4 September 2004
Charlotte Lennox

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

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlo; Translated from the Italian by Frenaye Levi, Frances

Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Sinclair Lewis

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

Liszt

Photograph, circa 1880s (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-130770)
Mario Vargos Llosa

MDCarchives
John. Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert Lowell

Titus Lucretius Carus

Georg Lukacs

Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Ramsay macdonald

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Henry Mackenzie

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

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas K. Malthus

David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Nelson Mandela

Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995)
(Marxists Internet Archive)
Thomas Mann

Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Herbert Marcuse

Walter DE LA MARE

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
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Keith Miles

Simon Whitfield
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Glyn Maxwell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Paul McCartney

McCartney in February 1964, arriving in the US to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Frank McCourt

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Margaret Mead

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

from Wikipedia
Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of 30 in London. Watercolor painting by James Warren Childe, 1839. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
George Meredith

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

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Bette Midler

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

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
John Stuart Mill

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

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

Pankaj Mishra

Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Joni Mitchell

George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jacques Monod

Michel De Montaigne

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ROGER PENROSE

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Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
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DK Publishing

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