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D'Arcy Norman
Theodor W. Adorno

Aischylos

Aesopus

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Edward Albee

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Andersen Tryggve

Henrik Lund (1879–1935)
Marío de Andrade

Author Unknown. Mário de Andrade (seated), Anita Malfatti (seated, center) e Zina Aita (left of Anita), in São Paulo, Brazil, 1922, by occasion of the Semana de 22 Exhibition in the São Paulo Municipal Theatre.
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Saint Anselm

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristoteles

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

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Peter Christen & Moe Asbjørnsen, Jørgen

wikimedia commons
Farid Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Aurelius Augustinus

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ingeborg Bachmann

Robert D. Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Alessandro Barbero

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Carl Barks

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Giambattista Basile

Artist unidentified.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Georg Büchner

Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Beda

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Brendan. Behan

Hilaire Belloc

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

Arnold Bennet

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Georges Bernanos

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

Tim R. Birkhead

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jens Bjørneboe

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

1923
Quentin Blake

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Luis Jorge Borges

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
Malcolm Bradbury

Marlon Brando

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

Andre Breton

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Wikimedia Commons
Hermann Broch

Anne Bronte

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Robert Browning

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

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Michail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Karel Capek

John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Giacomo. Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-USZ62-42495)
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

from Wikipedia
Charlie Christensen

Jan Ainali
Agatha Christie

Winston S. Churchill

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

from Wikipedia
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Paulo Coelho

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Camilla Collett

wikimedia commons
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frederick C. Copleston

Gustave Courbet

Félix Nadar (d. 1910)
Noël Coward

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

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
David Crystal

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)
Charles Darwin

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

Portrait by Melhus (1684)
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Richard Dawkins

E.M. Delafield

Tomie De Paola

Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica. Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

"Reader's Digest"

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

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)
Abbot of Seligenstadt Einhard

from Wikipedia
Albert Einstein

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

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Frantz Fanon

Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
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

Ian Fleming

Dario Fo

Jean De LA Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Frederick Forsyth

Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

av Assisi Frans, helgen

Stigmatisation of St. Francis by El Greco, 1585.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Jean Froissart

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

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Wikimedia Commons
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
René Girard

Vicq
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
N.V. Gogol

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

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Noah Gordon

Baltasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Henry Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
James Hall

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Roy Hattersley

S.W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Martin Heidegger

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)
Johann Gottfried Herder

Herodot

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

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
James Hilton

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

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Ludvig Holberg

wikimedia commons
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
J. Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

wikimedia commons
Pope John Paul II

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Jalal Al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Simon Jenkins

Axel Jensen

© 2002 Robert E. Haraldsen
Georg Johannesen

Gisle Hannemyr (2005)
Samuel Johnson

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

A. L. Foundation
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Memorial Plaque, Assisi, Italy. Photo by Gunnar Bach Pedersen / Wikimedia Commons.
Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Immanuel Kant

John Keats

J. Kerman

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Alexander Lange Kielland

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ross King

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Theodor Kittelsen

Drawing by Christian Krogh (1892)
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Aleksandra Kollontaj

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-25077)
Joe Kubert

Luigi Novi
Milan Kundera

Mauri Kunnas

Anneli Salo
Eugene Labiche

wikimedia commons - Portrait of Eugène Labiche, french playwright, by Marcellin Desboutin
Pär Lagerkvist

Selma Lagerlöf

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R[onald] D[avid] Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Halldòr Kiljan Laxness

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Maurice LeBlanc

Wikipédia France
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Eino Leino

Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Claude Lévi-Strauss

C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 9, 2007
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Carlo Lucarelli

Jaqen
Martin Luther

Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
George MacDonald

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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Compton Mackenzie

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

Photo © Barry Iverson
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Herbert Marcuse

Walter De la Mare

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

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garca Márquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
John Edward 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]
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Frank McCourt

Colleen McCullough

John McManners

Hugh McManners
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
W.S. Translator: Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Arthur Miller

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

MDCarchives
John Stuart Mill

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

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

MDCarchives
John Milton

Nancy Mitford

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

Wikipédia France
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de

Wikipédia France
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAlberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Morris

copyright Greyhead
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Axel Munthe

Public domain
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil

Alfred de Musset

Wikipédia France
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Photo by Alison Felstead
T. Nasrin

Bangladesh Blogger, May 1, 2005
Martin Andersen Nexø

Wikimedia Commons
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
William A. Nolen

Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Sven Nordqvist

Soppakanuuna
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Oehlenschläger

Wikimedia Commons
Emmuska Orczy Orczy, Baroness

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Pierre Mac Orlan

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID ggbain.38502
George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Dorothy Parker

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

Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Joseph Pearce

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.)
Jaroslav Pelikan

Samuel Pepys

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

wikimedia commons
Fernando Pessoa

Petronius

Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Luigi Pirandello

Plutarch

Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Katherine Anne Porter

Roy Porter

Chaim Potok

Antoine-François Prévost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Alf Prøysen

A Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Franois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Jacques André Joseph Aved, 1728. From
WikipediaErich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

Self-portrait, 1633,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Richard C. Reynolds

Maggie Hannan
Yasmina Reza

Brigitte Enguerand
Paul Ricoeur

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Tordis Ørjasæter

Nrk radio
James Robinson

DC Universe panel, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Norman Rockwell

Jules Romains

Jules Romains, 1936. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Don Rosa

Credit: J-E Nyström, 1999, Helsinki
David H. Rosen

Texas A&M University
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Steven Runciman

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schlegel

Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
E. C. Segar

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
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)
Irwin Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Nevil Shute

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

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

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

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

Vogler
Nan Bentzen Skille

With permission from Tore Skille (toreski@broadpark.no)
B.F. Skinner

PsychArt
Amalie Skram

Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
C. P. Snow

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Edmund Spenser

Baruch de Spinoza

John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Gunnar Staalesen

Photo: Nina Aldin Thune
Constantin Stanislavsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35320
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Wislawa Szymborska

Cornelius Tacitus

Alfred Tennyson

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Thomas Aquinas

Dylan Thomas

Märta Tikkanen

Anneli Salo
J. R. R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoj

public domain
Lillian Too

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Michel Tournier

Tomas Tranströmer

Andrei Romanenko
Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Photo by André Karwath / Wikimedia Commons
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
I.S. Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Peter Ustinov

Paul Valry

Ramón del Valle-Inclán

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
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Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Lope de Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Verdi

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Paul Verlaine

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Jules Verne

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Halldis Moren Vesaas

Alfred de Vigny

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Francois Villon

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

Maro Vergilius

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Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Richard Wagner

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Alice Walker

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Mika Waltari

Evelyn Waugh

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H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienFranz Werfel

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Henrik Wergeland

Carl Peter Lehmann (1842)
Johan Herman Wessel

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Edith Wharton

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E. B. White

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Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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Thornton Niven Wilder

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Charles Williams

Tennessee Williams

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Virginia Woolf

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Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Edwin Yamauchi

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Theodore Ziolkowski

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