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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Grace Aguilar

Project Gutenberg
Anonymous

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Stephen T. Asma


Sir David Attenborough

Shojo
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Bakker

From Wikipedia
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-71767)
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff: Selfportrait with palette, 1880
From Wikimedia
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Source: "Narrative of the Operations and Recent
Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs
and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia"
by Giovanni Battista Belzoni (London, 1820)
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas. Bewick

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

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

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
Janet Browne

Rikke Claeson
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Francis T. Buckland

From "Famous Men of Science" by Sarah K. Bolton (1889)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard F. Burton

Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
William H. Calvin

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Stefano Carboni

by Joan Pantsios at
Flickr.com. Carboni is on the right.
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
John Clare

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

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Richard Conniff

Photo by Gregory Conniff
Kate Constable

James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Walter Crane

Walter Crane. Detail of photo by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933) From the album Portraits of Many Persons of Note, 1886. Wikimedia Commons.
Allan Cunningham

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)
Liza Crihfield Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
William Dampier

Project Gutenberg: A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland by William Dampier
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

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

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Durrell gerald

James Elkins

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
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.
Euripides

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

Connie Miller
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Alan Fletcher

Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Katherine Frank

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Thomas Gainsborough

Self-Portrait, c. 1759.
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Olivia Gentile

Photo by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Seth Godin

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Guy

Author's website
William Hague

Photo by openDemocracy / Flickr, edited by LT uploader.
James Hall

Ray Harryhausen

San Diego Comic-Con 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganEdith Head

Herodotus

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

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Amanda Hopkinson

Erich Hoyt

Photo by Chris Johnson, www.earthOcean.tv
Alexander von Humboldt

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

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

From the book, Four Oaks Farm, published in 1967
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Samuel Johnson

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

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr

Jerry Bauer
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Brigid Keenan

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Dean King

Ross King

Mary Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
Dick King-Smith

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Choderlos De Laclos

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

from the collection of Catherine Lane Poole Dupre
Lillie (Lady De Bathe) LANGTRY

Credit: Sarony, 1887 (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-92567)
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C.S. Lewis

Henry Liddell, G.

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Livy

from Wikipedia
Sir John Lubbock

Charles Lyell

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Anne McCaffrey

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Fidelis Morgan

fidelismorgan.com
John Morley

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, from "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie," 1919
Project Gutenberg
Nichelle Nichols

Photo by "Natural Gas" (Flickr) taken at DragonCon 2002
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mungo Park

Samuel Pepys

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

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Nikolaus Pevsner

Ethan Phillips

Photo credit: Dianne Krauss, May 10, 2003
Jan Pienkowski

Edgar Allan, Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Alissa Quart

Photo by Jordan Davis
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977

J.K. Rowling

John Ruskin

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

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtErnest Shackleton

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
Shakespeare W

Wikipedia
Sue Shephard

Photograph by Chris Rydlewski
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Diana Souhami

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Kate Summerscale

Dylan Thomas

J R R Tolkien

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Elizabeth Vigee-le brun

Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, after 1782.
Alfred Russel Wallace

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Gilbert White

Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Elizabeth Wilson

J.G. Wood

From The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling
Mrs Henry Wood

Reginald Easton, d. 1893, from Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood, 1894
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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