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Paperback Pirate
Edward Abbey

Jessica Abel

Luigi Novi
Mumia Abu-Jamal

http://mumia.de/
Goodman Ace

Jane and Goodman Ace. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joel. Achenbach

Photographed by Mark Thiessen
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

George Ade

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

Spiro T. Agnew

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Portrait)
Louisa May Alcott

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich at the age of 32
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Nelson Algren

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Fred Allen

James Lane Allen

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

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1987
A.R. Ammons

H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Ken Anderson

http://christianheadlines.com/films/images/ka.jpg
Reb Anderson

Courtesy of Reb Anderson.
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Michael J. Arlen

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Thurman Wesley Arnold

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-24281)
Tom Arnold

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikipedia)
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Rilla Askew

With permission of author.
Machado de Assis,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
John James Audubon

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

Shalom. Auslander

Photograph by Patrik Andersson
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Bach

Jerry Bauer
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

Earl of Arthur James Balfour

Project Gutenberg
Red Barber

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al. Ravenna, 1955 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112032)
Cicely Mary Barker

J. M. Barrie

Dave Barry

David Barsamian

William Bartram

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

Richard Baxter

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

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Canley (Wikipedia user)
Ernest Becker

Sir Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Edward Bellamy

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

Jack Benny

Jack Benny with his fiddle at a Kansas City Symphony fund-raiser, March 22, 1958.
(trumanlibrary.org)
Edgar Bergen

left (United States Marine Corps photo)
(trumanlibrary.org)
Laurence. Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Michael R. Beschloss

Library of Congress
Otto Bettmann

World-Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1947 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5867)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Elizabeth Bishop

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

Mel Blanc

Photo by Alan Light, 1976 (Cropped ~ Wikimedia & Flickr)
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Stephen G. Bloom

Courtesy of Stephen G. Bloom.
Eric Bogosian

Credit: David Shankbone, April 25, 2007
W.E.B. DuBois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Paul Bowles

Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Malcolm Bradbury

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
David J. Brewer, [from old catalog]

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, circa 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83098)
Arthur Brisbane

1906 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-106247)
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Gwendolyn Brooks

MDCarchives
John Brooks

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

Wikimedia Commons
Heywood Broun

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-24997)
Charles Brockden Brown

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

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

James Brown (Singer) ~ Photo by Flickr User David Washington, DC
Mick Brown

Philip Hollis
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
William Cullen Bryant, ed.

Photo circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02728)
Viscount James Bryce Bryce

Davis & Sanford (1904)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Matthew Budman

Photo by Cristina Beltrán
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Robert J. (Robert Jones). Burdette

Robert J. Burdette. Frontispiece to American biography and genealogy ([191-]) Volume 1
Anthony Burgess

Gelett Burgess

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
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George Burns

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John Horne Burns

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John Burroughs

1902 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZC2-6269)
Lord Byron

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eddie Cantor

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-38208
Fritjof Capra

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Will Carleton

Credit. N. Sarony, New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Carlin

Bliss Carman

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, circa 1890-1910
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-47077)
Frank G. Carpenter

Credit: William Henry Potter, ca. 1880s (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-135572)
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
CBS News.,

CBS Television City, April 2007, photo by Alan Light
Bennett Cerf

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Roz Chast

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
John Cheever

Glenn Alan Cheney

Charles W. Chesnutt

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Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Francis James Child

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Robert Christgau

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Dick Clark

Photo credit: alan Light, 1990
Austin Clarke

Eric Clark

Photo by Aprile Clark
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Stanley Cloud

© 2003 Claudio Vasquez
Loren Coleman

Wim Coleman

Matthew Collin

Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
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)
Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Phil Cousineau

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganHume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy,
1988 Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
Samuel McChord Crothers

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-04838)
James Marshall Crotty

Crotty
David Crystal

John C. Culver

U.S. Senate Historical Office
George William Curtis

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

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Clifton Daniel

Portrait of Clifton Daniel, 1912-2000
David Dary

Ned Hockman
Ram Dass.,

Kathleen Murphy
Osha Gray Davidson

Osha Gray Davidson
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Lee De Forest

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Clarence C. Dill

George Grantham Bain Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-ggbain-36616)
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Austin Dobson

Image from Collected poems (1897) by Austin Dobson
Arthur Dorros

Amanda Minnie Douglas

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

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Elizabeth Drew

Library of Congress
Paul B. Du Chaillu

French explorer Paul du Chaillu at close quarters with a gorilla (from Stanley and the White Heroes in Africa. 1890; scanned by Andre Engels)
Paul Laurence Dunbar

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Marguerite. Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
David Anthony Durham

Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933.

Henry Van Dyke and wife: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-17998)
Umberto Eco

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

Margaret Edson

Columbia University
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Sir Charles Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
Marc Eliot

Chris Elliott

Chris Elliott (1960- )
Photo by Alan Light, September 17, 1989, 41st Emmy Awards
(Flickr attribution license)
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ken Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
John Emsley

Photo by John Holman
Mark Ethridge

Mark Foster Ethridge, President of the National Association of Broadcasters: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-24338)
Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Rudolf Eucken

From " The New York Times
Current History of the European War," 1915 ~ Project Gutenberg
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
James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

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

Courtesy of David Feldman
Edna Ferber

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

Fordan
Eugene Field

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
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)
Laura Flanders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Paul. Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
John Ambrose Fleming

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

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Michel Foucault

Jeff Foxworthy

Al. Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Viktor E. Frankl

Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Harold Frederic

See below.
Nell. Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
David Frost

Photo by R. D. Ward, United States Department of Defense (Cropped for Wikimedia)
Robert Frost

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

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

Hugo Gernsback, ed.

Radio News Nov 1928 Cover.jpg
Hugo Gernsback in his Manhattan apartment is watching a television broadcast from his WRNY station in August 1928.
Floyd Gibbons

Image from "And they thought we wouldn't fight." (1918) by Floyd Phillips Gibbons
George Gissing

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
J.W. Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Rube Goldberg

1928 photo
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

Cervantes Institute
Ulysses S. Grant

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

The William Graves Collection
Jonathon Green

n/a
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David. Halberstam

Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Sue Halpern

Alexander Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
James G. Harbord

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Tom Harkin

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Katherine Harris

Katherine Harris (politican); U.S. House of Representatives Historical Office
Paul Harris

Stacy Harris

Stacy Harris
Bret Harte

Sauk chief Black Hawk

From McClure's Magazine, January 1896, After a portrait by George Catlin, in the National Museum at Washington, D.C
Project Gutenberg)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Ben Hecht

Sven Anders Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-17306)
Hugh M. Hefner

Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Cropped/Wikipedia & Flickr)
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), portrait by George Bagby Matthews, circa 1891 (Art Collection of the U.S. Senate)
G. A. Henty

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

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Sir John F.W. Herschel

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

Photo by James Duncan Davidson
Maurice Henry Hewlett

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gilbert Highet

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

From " The New York Times
Current History of the European War," 1915 ~ Project Gutenberg
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Adolf Hitler

Tim Hollis

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
Homer

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

William Hone

William Hone. Frontispiece from William Hone; his life and times (1912) by Frederick William Hackwood.
Herbert Hoover

from Wikipedia
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Emerson Hough

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-04852)
William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Sue Hubbell

Robert Giard
W. H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Harold E. Hughes

U.S. Senate Historical Office
James Huneker

Alan Hunter

Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Holbrook Jackson

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

Columbia University
Mark Jacobs

Swarthmore College.
Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Photo by David Shankbone, April 25, 2008
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Photograph by Mary Randlett
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rebecca Johns

Photo by Catherine Adams
Wayne Johnston

Jerry Bauer
Mike Judge

C. G. Jung

Donald Rodney Justice

Photo © 2004 Nathaniel Justice
Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn (1922-1983)
Photographed by Thomas J. O'Halloran, May 11, 1965.
(U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Zachary. Karabell

Joanne Chan
Nicholas J. Karolides

University of Wisconsin-River Falls Faculty Page
Jon Katz

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Garrison. Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Roger G. Kennedy

Courtesy U.S. National Park Service
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
W. P. Kinsella

George Lyman Kittredge

Caroline Knapp

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Ted Kooser

Gary A. Kowalski

Gary Kowalski, author
Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Wikipedia
Jon Kukla

Jennifer Kukla
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan- ̓dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

Ellen J. Langer

Robert Scoble
Lewis H. Lapham

Frances Moore Lappe

Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)
Jerome Lawrence

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

Emma Lazarus

T. Johnson
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Nam Le

Photo © 2007 Joanne Chan
Aldo Leopold

Alain René Le Sage

David Letterman

Ssgt. Reynaldo Ramon, USAF (Baghdad, Iraq, 2003)
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

David L. Lewis

Columbia University
Marilyn Jaye. Lewis

Marilyn Jaye Lewis 2007
Sinclair Lewis

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

Alan Light
A.J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Abraham Lincoln

David Lindsay

Walter Lippman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)
John L. Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Sir Oliver Lodge

Photo copyrighted 1920
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101784)
Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00433)
(cropped)
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)
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

John Daido Loori

Photo by Jeffrey Radcliffe / Flickr.
Richard Louv

Photo credit: Robert Bourroughs
Brenda Love

Brenda Love, Author
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Amy Lowell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jack (ed.) Lynch

courtesy author
Bernarr Macfadden

Macfadden as David. Photograph by Napoleon Sarony.
Charles Mackay

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Photo by Emily Bazar
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Leonard. Maltin

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Guglielmo Marconi

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guglielmo_Marconi.jpg
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Phillip Margolin

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Donald Grant Mitchell

Public domain
Groucho Marx

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frederica Mathewes-Green

Mary Taber-Lind
Brander Matthews

See below
Guy de Maupassant, illus. by Gary Kelley

Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Eugene J. McCarthy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Paul McCartney

McCartney in February 1964, arriving in the US to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
J. D. McClatchy

Robert. McCrum

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Marshall McLuhan

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
James M. McPherson

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

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

Owen Meredith

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

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Arthur Miller

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

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Merle Miller

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

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
John Stuart Mill

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

White House photograph by Shealah Craighead, 2006.
Anchee Min

Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Michel Eyquem Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Dinty W. Moore

Courtesy of the author
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore (b. 1960), US economist
Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJohn (Viscount) Morley

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, from "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie," 1919
Project Gutenberg
Patrick Morley

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Edward R. Murrow

David G. Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Robert Nathan

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Daughters of the American Revolution.,

Headquarters of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C. Photo by Jennifer / Flickr.
National Broadcasting Co.

Nicholas Negroponte

Robert Scoble
Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
New York Public Library.,

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Harold Nicolson

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Walker Percy

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