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Anon

Paperback Pirate
Boris Akunin

Al Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

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

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
St Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Rosemary Bailey

William Barclay

courtesy of the William Barclay Lectureship Trust
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Betjeman, Sir

Robert Bolt

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

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Andrea Camilleri

David Carkeet

www.geocities.com/davidcarkeet/
Lewis Carroll

Michael Carson

OK from Author, copy received by LT
Catholic Church

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (Photo credit: Wolfgang Stuck, Sept. 2004)
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Archibald Joseph Cronin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
St. John of The Cross

Nicholas Culpeper

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

Photograph © Harry Borden
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by John Holman
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Helen Fielding

Mitch Finley

Courtesy of the author.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Adrian Fortescue

"A portrait (from a photograph)". Reproduced in ADRIAN FORTESCUE: A MEMOIR by John G. Vance and J. W. Fortescue (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1924)
Dick Francis

R. Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943)
(AP Watt)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Godwin

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

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Scott Hahn

Photo © Fanny Surjana / Flickr
Dag Hammarskjold

UN/DPI
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Robert Harris

Seamus Heaney

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
A.E. Housman

Basil Cardinal Hume

Statue of Basil Cardinal Hume, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Image by Marie Griffiths / English Wikipedia.
Pope John Paul II

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksSamuel Johnson

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
R. D. Laing

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

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Donna Leon

C.S. Lewis

James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Peter Macinnis

Peter Macinnis
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Ngaio Marsh

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
A.E.W.Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Philip Matyszak

Philip Matyszak
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
John Milton

Gladys Mitchell

St. Louis De Monfort

John Mortimer

William O'Brien

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Pope Pius Xii

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Angelus Press

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

Wikipédia France
Pope Benedict XVI

Wikipedia
Dorothy Rowe

Maggie Hannan
J.K. Rowling

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Fulton Sheen

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1952 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-123461)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Georges Simenon

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

from Wikipedia
Edmund Spenser

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Thomas Stephen Szasz

Photograph by Jeffrey A. Schaler
Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
J.R.R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

John Trigilio

Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI meeting with Richard Nixon at the Vatican, 29 Sep. 1970. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen. From the National Archives via pingnews at Flickr.
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jill Paton Walsh

Benedicta Ward

Courtesy of Benedicta Ward.
Edmund White

John Williams

Tennessee Williams

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

Christian Wolmar

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Tom Wright

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.)
Pope Leo XIII

1903 photograph of painting (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-124242)
W.B. Yeats

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