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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Margaret Anderson

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112044)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Count Basie

Jeanine Basinger

Bill Burkhart
Sidney Bechet

Public Record Office, London: document HO45/24778
Robert Benchley

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

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Peter Bogdanovich

Wikipedia user Eliaws
Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Bowles

Louise Brooks

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

Lewis Carroll

Charles Chaplin

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

Anton Chekhov

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

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
T. S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Gustave Flaubert

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Lillian Gish

1921 photograph
George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-32655)
Remy de Gourmont

Les amateurs de Rémy de Gourmont
Henry Green

D. W Griffith

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert Harris

Ray Harryhausen

San Diego Comic-Con 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganLafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Henrik Ibsen

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

Wikipedia
Randall Jarrell

James Joyce

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

Buster Keaton in "The General"
George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-29929)
Hugh Kenner

Rudyard Kipling

Akira Kurosawa

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

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Janet Leigh

Janet Lee (Center) with daughters Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis
Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Flickr)
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)
Sidney Lumet

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 7, 1939, as Johnnie in "My heart's in the Highlands" (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103658)
The Usual Gang of Idiots

beneneuman and the staff of Mad Magazine.
photo by
beneneuman on Flickr
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kevin McCarthy (photo by Jane Anderson Jones)
Marshall McLuhan

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Pablo Neruda

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Flannery O'Connor

Robert O'Connor

John O'Hara

Sharon Olds

George Orwell

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

Misa Martin
Barry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Mary Pickford

George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
V.I. Pudovkin

Edogawa Rampo

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
John Sandford

E. C. Segar

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Mack Sennett

copyrighted June 28 1915 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-57949)
Madame de Sévigné

wikipedia
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Jean Shepherd

Georges Simenon

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

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
James Thurber

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

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Louis Untermeyer

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Edward Wagenknecht

1964 photograph by Boston University Photo Services.
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
William Carlos Williams

Richard Wright

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