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Paperback Pirate
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Pedro de Alarcon

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

picture by Charles mandracchia
Vittorio Alfieri

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)
Maury Allen

Courtesy of Maury Allen
Stephen E. Ambrose

Edmondo De Amicis

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

Pietro Aretino

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

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Stairway and rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo.

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Marcel Ayme

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Christopher Baker

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Letitia Baldrige

White House photo by Robert Knudsen (cropped by uploader): John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Roland Barthes

Susan Bassnett-McGuire

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Simone : de Beauvoir

Cesare Beccaria

Saul. Bellow

Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Bernard Berenson

Georges Bernanos

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

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

Mario Biondi
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Jimmy Breslin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

From Wikipedia
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jacob Burckhardt

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

Leo F. Buscaglia

MDCarchives
Ferruccio Busoni

Postcard, circa 1890-1900 (George Grantham Bain Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-126592)
Julius Caesar

public domain
Erskine Caldwell

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

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Frank Capra

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

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Lorenzo Carcaterra

Eye on Books
Giosue Carducci

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

Photo by Neil Giordano
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Catholic Church.,

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

Elizabeth W Champney

Elizabeth W. Champney (1850-1922) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Charlie Rose

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen talks with television host Charlie Rose in Washington, D.C., March 12, 2009. DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chad McNeeley, U.S. Navy
(defenseimagery.mil)
Art Institute of Chicago.,

Agatha Christie

Cicero

from Wikipedia
Eleanor Clark

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

© 2004 Tate Photography
Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole at Ambassador Baptist Christian School, Washington D.C., 2007. Detail from White House photo by David Bohrer.
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
JACKIE COOPER

Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
Benedetto Croce

A. J. Cronin

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

Mario Cuomo

Gabriele D'Annunzio

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

www.andreadecarlo.com
Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Tomie de Paola

Edward Dicey

Edward Dicey, 1865. Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Denis Diderot

E.L. Doctorow

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
Robert Dugoni

Alexandre Dumas

Michael Dummett

Klaus Reisinger
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
T. S. Eliot

Dana Facaro

Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Gabriel Faure

Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré (1845 –1924) by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (The Paris Museum of Music). (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Federico Fellini

Matt Derry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Enrico Fermi

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Geraldine. Ferraro

Image courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
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

Dario Fo

C. S. Forester

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

François-Xavier-Pascal Fabre (1813).
Francesco : d'Assisi

Stigmatisation of St. Francis by El Greco, 1585.
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Dorothea Benton Frank

Caroline Greyshock
Felix Frankfurter

Wikipedia & Library of Congress
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Eva Le Gallienne

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

ΛΦΠ
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) 1866 photograph
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Hugh (ed.) Gibson

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Giorgione

Giorgione, 1500-1510
Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaj Gogol'

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

Nadine Gordimer

Guido Gozzano

Unknown photographer
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Charles Hall Grandgent

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

The William Graves Collection
Andrew M. Greeley

from wikipedia
Graham Greene

Ferdinand : Morrison Gregorovius, K.F. (editor)

from Wikipedia, photographer unidentified
Sir George Grove

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

Dianne Hales

Photo by Franco Folini
Edith Hamilton

Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Gay Hendricks

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Christopher Hibbert

The History Channel

History Channel billboard in Manhattan, August 2006, photo by Fergal Carr
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Tom Horn

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Lee A. Iacocca

Ioannes Paulus

Henry James

Wikipedia
Marquis James

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Phyllis D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksAlbino Luciani

Photo by user Lupe.tere / Wikimedia Commons.
POPE John XXIII

James Joyce

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

Elia Kazan

James Kavallines. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16773
Jonathan Keates

Jerry Bauer
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Rudyard Kipling

George Lyman Kittredge

Erich Kuby

Susanna Böhme-Kuby / Wikimedia Commons
Gerry LaFemina

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

Rodolfo Lanciani (bottom right). Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Austen Henry Layard

Spike Lee

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Liberace

Alan Light
John Carter Brown Library.,

Billy Lombardo

photo by Ruth Hutton
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
National Gallery (Great Britain),

abbottthomas
Robert Ludlum

Emil Ludwig

Niccolò Machiavelli

Helen MacInnes

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

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy De Maupassant (Gesualdo Bufalino intro; Giuseppe Scaraffia note; Jea Hovel)

Daphne Du Maurier

Giuseppe Mazzini

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

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Colleen McCullough

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

Zenohockey
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani. 1919
Theodor Mommsen

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

Indro Montanelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montanell-a-Milano-1992.jpg
Maria Montessori

(Library of Congress Prints and Photography Division LC-DIG-ggbain-14964)
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.
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Jan Morris

Robert Musil

Alfred de Musset

Wikipédia France
Benito (1883-1945) Mussolini

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-34899
DAR

Headquarters of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C. Photo by Jennifer / Flickr.
Albert J. Nevins

Not given in source, presume Maryknoll
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Thomas Nelson Page

See below.
Aldo Palazzeschi

Photograph by Mario Nunes Vais (1856-1932)
Giuseppe Parini

from http://olharfeliz.typepad.com/pastels/
(portrait by Giuseppe Pietro Mazzola, 1793)
Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Luciano Pavarotti

Pirlouiiiit
PBS 1997

April 2007, photo by Cameron Nordholm
Silvio Pellico

Silvio Pellico. Wikimedia Commons.
Luigi Pirandello

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Angelo Poliziano

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

Pope Paul

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Katherine Anne Porter

E. Alexander Powell

General von Boehn (left), commanding the Ninth German Army, and Mr. Powell. Image from Fighting in Flanders (1915) by E. Alexander Powell
Abate Prevost

Wikipédia France
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Francine Prose

Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin

courtesy Wikipedia
Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
Raphael

Raphael (1483-1520)
Bronze bust on top of the artist's tomb
at the Pantheon in Rome, by Giuseppe de Fabris
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Joseph Ratzinger

Wikipedia
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Jules Renard

Wikimedia Commons
Henry M. Robert

photographer unknown
Jane Roberts

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Roth

Ruzante

Courtesy of The Modern Humanities Research Association
Umberto Saba

Chiara Marra, August 17, 2007
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Antonin. Scalia

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portait)
Alessandro Scarlatti

from Wikipedia
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Lisa Scottoline

Library of Congress
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Johann Gottfried Seume

Johann Gottfried Seume
Beppe Severgnini

Davide Schenetti (Wikimedia Commons)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Sidney Sheldon

Caterina : da Siena

The Ecstasy of St Catherine of Siena
Pompeo Batoni
1743
Ignazio Silone

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.
Michael Marshall

Image copyright © Steve Double, 2006
Smithsonian Institution.

Tom W. Smith

Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
National Geographic Society (U.S.).,

Susan Sontag

Robert Stack

Photo by Alan Light, 1988 (Cropped ~ Wikimedia Commons/Flickr)
Diane Stanley

MDCarchives
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Ronald Syme

wikipedia
John Addington Symonds

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, via glbtq.com
Arthur Symons

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Tasso Torquato

wikimedia commons
David A. Taylor

Erica Berger
Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoj

public domain
Chicago Tribune

Photo taken by me (Lilithcat)
Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Lewis Turco

Mac Photobooth/Lewis Turco
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

United States.,

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
United States Congress

House of Representatives and Central Dome, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Photo by Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons.
Jack Valenti

Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Pietro Verri

Pietro Verri. Wikimedia Commons.
Giambattista Vico

From the Wikimedia Commons
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Alexander Waugh

Glyn Howells
Joseph Wechsberg

www.keithsarver.com
Simone Weil

Donald E. Westlake

Donald westlake by Jean-Marie David
Date
Quai du polar, Lyon, 2006
Source
Jean-Marie David (own work)
Author
Jean-Marie David
William Foote Whyte

Charles Williams

Herman Wouk

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

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

Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
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