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Anon

Paperback Pirate
Edward Abbey

Peter Abelard

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Joseph Addison

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

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
James Agee

Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Leopoldo Alas

Unknown photographer
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)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

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

Jean Anouilh

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Reinaldo Arenas

Pietro Aretino

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen
und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
David Attenborough

Shojo
W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Isaac Babel

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

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Henri Barbusse

Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

William Bartram

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

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Georg Büchner

Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

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

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

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Andrei Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Walter Benjamin

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Thomas Bernhard

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Ancius Boethius

Wayne C Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Ulrich Boser

Nora Gallagher
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Fernand Braudel

Julia Briggs

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
Hermann Broch

Max Brod

Wikipedia
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
Louise Brooks

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

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

Robert Browning

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

Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Frank T. Bullen

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

Jacob Burckhardt

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

Carolyn Burke

Elena Seibert
Frances Burney

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

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
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron

Tim Cahill

James M. Cain

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

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Rachel L. Carson

from Wikipedia
W. Hodding Carter

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
C. P. Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Camilo Jose Cela Conde

ÁWá
Benvenuto Cellini

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)
Daniel Chavarría

John Cheever

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

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)
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Eleanor Clark

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

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

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

Photo by Steven Speliotis.
Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

William Congreve

Edward Conlon

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Jim Crace

Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
St. John of the Cross

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Barry Cunliffe

Imogen Cunningham

© Imogen Cunningham Trust
Edward S. Curtis

Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (Wikimedia Commons)
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Gabriele D'Annunzio

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

Princeton University
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Robertson Davies

Guy Debord

Andrew Delbanco

Joyce Ravid
Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
E. L. Doctorow

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
Norman Douglas

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Johanna Drucker

John Dryden

Eamon Duffy

Albrecht Durer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Gerald Durrell

Bob Dylan

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake

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

George Eliot

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

James Elkins

Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

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

Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Photographed by Edwin Locke, Feb. 1937
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-4225-M4)
Jean-Henri Fabre

wikimedia commons
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
J. Sheridan LeFanu

George Farquhar

wikimedia commons
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
David Ferry

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
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

Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Shelby Foote

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
Ugo Foscolo

François-Xavier-Pascal Fabre (1813).
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
James George Frazer

Harold Frederic

See below.
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Benito Perez Galdos

Alexander Gardner

Library of Congress
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Theophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
André Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
George Gissing

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Godwin

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

Wikipédia France
Vincent van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Nikolai Gogol

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

The Warburg Institute
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Goncharov

Edmond de Goncourt

Photo by Félix Nadar
(courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David Goodis

Maxim Gorky

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

Les amateurs de Rémy de Gourmont
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Peter Greenaway

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
James Hall

David M. Halperin

Courtesy of David Halperin
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Donald Harington

DonaldHarington.com
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Woody Haut

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Eliza Haywood

Giuliano Hazan

Andrea Hillebrand, photographer
in collaboration with Peter Bernard
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Jennifer Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Ernest Hemingway

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

Heraclitus

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Herodotus

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

Gilbert Highet

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

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hill

Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Milt Hinton

guyman22, May 1989
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

William Hogarth

Self-portrait, 1745
(Yorck Project)
James Hogg

Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
John Hollander

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A. M. Homes

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michel Houellebecq

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

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

David Hurwitz, author of Wasting the Dawn, buried in his personal book collection.
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
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
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Holbrook Jackson

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
William James

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

Richard Wyatt
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Randall Jarrell

Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Robinson Jeffers

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

Samuel Johnson

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

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Photo copyrighted by Harris and Ewing, 1910
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-68295)
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Lloyd Kahn

Charlotte Kasl

www.charlottekasl.com
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Steven G. Kellman

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Diana Kennedy

Hugh Kenner

Joseph Kerman

Frank Kermode

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Danilo Kiš

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Heinrich von Kleist

Caroline Knapp

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

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
Gyula Krúdy

Photo by user Misibacsi / Hungarian Wikipedia
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Pierre 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

Jules Laforgue

Portrait of Laforgue by Franz Skarbina (1885)
Pär Lagerkvist

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse)

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldor Laxness

Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Nikolai Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Claude Levi-Strauss

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Matthew G. 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)
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Peter Linebaugh

M. Brooks
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Lucretius

Steve Luxenberg

Courtesy of The Washington Post
Andrew Lycett

Author photo: Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald

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.)
Ross MacDonald

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Niccolo Machiavelli

Deborah Madison

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Xavier De Maistre

Portrait by Charles Steuben
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Sally Mann

Zipity11
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Mao Tse-tung

from Wikipedia
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Walter De La Mare

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

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Mary Ellen Mark

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Charles Maturin

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

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
J. D. McClatchy

Scott McCloud

Horace McCoy

Carson McCullers

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

Natalia Wisdom
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
James M. Mcpherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Menander

Roman copy of the Imperial era
after a Greek original (ca. 343–291 BC),
Museo Chiaramonti
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Bruce M. Metzger

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.)
Henry Miller

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Molière

Wikipédia France
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Lucy Moore

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Dan Morgenstern

Photo by user Infrogmation / Wikimedia Commons
Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Eduard Mörike

Wikimedia Commons
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)
Thomas Nashe

Alexander Nehamas

Prof. Alexander Nehamas. Photo by Randall Hagadorn, 1994 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Gerard de Nerval

Cardinal John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anaïs Nin

Julian of Norwich

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Anita O'Day

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

John O'Hara

Yuri Olesha

From Wikipedia
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Stewart O'Nan

Eugene O'Neill

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

Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Elaine 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
Helen Waite Papashvily

Courtesy of the
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Francis Parkman

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