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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Jane Addams

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

Ivo Andric

Susan B. Anthony

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
W. H. Auden

John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Samuel Beckett

Lucius Beebe

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

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Saul Bellow

David Benioff

John Berendt

Eye on Books
A. Scott Berg

Chuck Berry

John Betjeman

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
William Blackstone

Print by T. Hamilton Crawford after Joshua Reynolds, c1930 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2536)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

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

Athena Gassoumis
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Edwin M. Borchard

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-22481)
James Boswell

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Paul Bowles

Ray Bradbury

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

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
Louise Brooks

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

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Robert Cowen
Thomas Bulfinch

Anthony Burgess

Robert Burns

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

Smedley D. Butler

Wikimedia (U.S. Marine Corps Photo)
James M. Cain

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Benjamin N. Cardozo

circa 1932 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-38302)
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill

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

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Cornwell

Archibald Cox

U.S. Dept. of Justice
Edward S. Curtis

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

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

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Clarence Darrow

HonoreÌ Daumier

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

Delacorta

Daniel Odier
Alan M. Dershowitz

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
John Donne

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Gardner R. Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
John Dryden

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Henry Van Dyke

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

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

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
M. C. Escher

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)
Hanns Heinz Ewers

Hanns Heinz Ewers, 5 May 1911.
Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien Dana Facaros

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Eugene Field

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Dick Francis

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

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

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Susan Glaspell

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

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Jane Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Kenneth. Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Martha Grimes

A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

David Halberstam

Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Edith Hamilton

Dag Hammarskjöld

UN/DPI
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Ida Husted Harper

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-07118)
Frank Harris

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Childe Hassam

Credit: Arnold Genthe (Arnold Genthe Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0387)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Brooke Hayward

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

George Grantham Bain Collection / Library of Congress
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Lillian Hellman

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

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

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

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Sir Edmund Hillary

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, June 17, 2004
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Laura Z. Hobson

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

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

from Wikipedia
William Hogarth

Self-portrait, 1745
(Yorck Project)
Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
A. E. Housman

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
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
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksRicky 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)
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Matthew Josephson

James Joyce

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

Donald Kagan

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

from Wikipedia
Garson Kanin

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

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ross King

Rudyard Kipling

Käthe Kollwitz

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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
Louis L'Amour

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
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
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlo Levi

C. Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Elizabeth F. Loftus

University of California, Irvine
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)
Robert Lowell

Ross MacDonald

Charles Mackay

Archibald MacLeish

Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Allessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Martial

From Wikipedia
John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Colleen McCullough

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
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
John Stuart Mill

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

Mitford Nancy

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

Wikipédia France
Lucy Moore

Christopher Morley

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Clifford Mortimer

Farley Mowat

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ogden Nash

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
National Archives Trust Fund Board

Interior of the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Photo by English Wikipedia user
KkmdAlfred Noyes

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

Barry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)
Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Peter Parnall

Photo by Diane L. Tessaglia-Hymes
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Lorenzo Da Ponte

18th century portrait of Lorenzo da Ponte
Katherine Anne Porter

Chaim Potok

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Michael Pye

Thomas De Quincey

Anna Quindlen

Mary Renault

Kenneth Roberts

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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Berton Roueche

Source: CDC Public Health Image Library
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Thomas Rowlandson

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienDamon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Carl Sanburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSimon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Walter Scott

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

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Bernard Shaw

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

Accent Press Ltd
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Robert E. Sherwood

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

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Nevil Shute

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

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Alan Sillitoe

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Bill Sloan

Photograph by Lana Sloan
Betty Smith

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

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Rick Smolan

Robert Scoble
C. P. Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic Society

Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Wallace Stegner

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Andy Swash

WILDGuides
Thomas Stephen Szasz

Photograph by Jeffrey A. Schaler
Tacitus

Ida M. Tarbell

1922 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-109647)
E. P. Thompson

Thucydides.,

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
John Kennedy Toole

Lawrence H. Tribe

Photo by Lilithcat
Calvin Trillin

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Robert M. Utley

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Mark (ed.) Van Doren

John Burlinson
Various

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Virgil

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

Michael Wallis

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Earl Warren

Supreme Court portrait of Earl Warren
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Jessamyn West

from Wikipedia
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Edmund White

Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Thornton Wilder

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

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Geoffrey Wolff

Tony Rollo
Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
W. B. Yeats

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

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
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