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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hieronymus van Alphen

Engraving by J.B. Tétar van Elven (1804-1889)
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Samuel Beckett

Jacobus Bellamy

Engraving by Rein Vinkeles (1741-1816)
Willem Bilderdijk

Engraving by M. van Bree/P. Velyn
Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Jorge Luis Borges

P.C. Boutens

Portrait by Jan Toorop (1908)
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)
S. Carmiggelt

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
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)
Jean Cocteau

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

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

John Donne

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
T.S. Eliot

Marcellus Emants

Drawing by H.J. Haverman (1857-1928)
Desiderius Erasmus

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Edward Fitzgerald

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

Wikipédia France
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
P.A. de Génestet

Engraving by B. Taurel after A.J. Ehnle
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Photograph (c. 1892) by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ernesto Guevara

Alberto Korda
Bernard ter Haar

From: Zangen van vroegeren leeftijd en nieuwe gedichten, by Bernard ter Haar, published Arnhem 1851.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Herman Heijermans

Photo by J.M. Luijt / Wikimedia Commons.
Ernest Hemingway

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

Nicolaas Beets

Engraving of N. Beets (Hildebrand) by Grebner/Lange
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Homeros

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Henry James

Wikipedia
Philip Jenkins

Courtesy of Philip Jenkins
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)
C.G. Jung

Franz Kafka

Pieter Langendijk

Engraving by C. Pronk/J. Houbraken
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

C. Day Lewis

John Burlinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Stéphane Mallarmé

Wikipédia France
Thomas Mann

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Marguerite de Navarre

Detail from Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre by Richard Parks Bonington, 1826.
Christopher Marlowe

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

Guy de Maupassant

McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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 Milton

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

From Wikipedia
Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Vladimir Nabokov

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

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Publius Ovidius Naso

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Luigi Pirandello

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Marcel Proust

François Rabelais

Lou Reed

Brave New Films, October 16, 2006
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Luise Rinser

(Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0714-302)
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienChristina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Arthur van Schendel

Photograph by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Friedrich von Schiller

Annie M.G. Schmidt

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
P. B. Shelley

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

A.C.W. Staring

Engraving by L. Moritz/J.H. Rennefeld
Laurence Sterne

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

Leo Tolstoi

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Marguerite de Valois

Marguerite de Valois, queen consort of Henri IV, king of France. Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Library (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library).
Various

Paul Verlaine

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

Drawing (1885) by Frederik van Eeden (1860-1932)
Joost van den Vondel

Portrait by Ph. Koninck (1665)
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWilliam Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
W.B. Yeats

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