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Henry Adams

Aeschylus

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
W.E.B. Dubois

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Ray Bradbury

Susie Bright

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Thomas Bulfinch

Frances Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Willa Cather

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

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

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

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Kurt Cobain

P.B. Rage, 1992
Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine

Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

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

Jacques Derrida

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
J.R. Dobbs

The portrait of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of SubGenius Foundation Inc. and is used with permission.
E.L. Doctorow

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Billlion
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
T. S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Michel Foucault

Robert Frost

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

Allen and Unwin
R. Buckminster Fuller

William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Paul Harris

John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
N. Katherine Hayles

Dave Pape
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

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)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Courtesy of Indiana University
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo © Kipling Swehla
Henry James

Wikipedia
Samuel Johnson

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

Library of Congress
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
John Keats

Hugh Kenner

Frank Kermode

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
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
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Jacques Lacan

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Timothy Leary

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Sinclair Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Villiers de L'isle Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Scott McCloud

Marshall McLuhan

Arthur Miller

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

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
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)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Anais Nin

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Salvador Plascencia


Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Paul Raeburn

Courtesy of Paul Raeburn
Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
J.K. Rowling

John P. Rumrich

Carl Sagan

Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
University of Chicago Press Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907

John Steinbeck

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

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Laurence Sterne

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Hunter S. Thompson

Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Jean Toomer

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)
Virgil

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

Photo by GASTEV - "Live" democracy is in my opinion no longer democracy.
Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienNathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Tennessee Williams

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

Tom Wolfe

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Richard Wright

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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