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Hal Abelson

Joi Ito
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
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)
Tariq Ali

William Allen

William Allen (1532-1594) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienLaurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Hannah Arendt

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Samuel Beckett

Augustine Birrell

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Robert Boyle

Painting by F. Kerseboom, reproduced in "Britain's Heritage of Science" by Arthur Shuster and Arthur Shipley (1917). Painting is of early chemist Robert Boyle, not Joyce scholar Robert Boyle.
Ray Bradbury

H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Fernand Braudel

David Brewster, Sir

Sir David Brewster
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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
Geraldine Brooks

Janet Browne

Rikke Claeson
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Edmund Burke

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

University of California-Davis faculty webpage
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Charles A. Cutter

David Damrosch

John Cotton Dana

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-12889)
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

Sarah Dessen

sarahdessen.com
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
John Dryden

Umberto Eco

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

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

Southworth & Hawes
John Evelyn

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

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

James G. Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
William Gibson

Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Ursula K. Le Guin

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Photo by Kyle Kesselring, Flickr
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
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)
Herodotus

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

Herman Hesse

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

James Hilton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. J. Hobsbawm

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Agnes Humbert

drawing of Agnès Humbert by Wikipedia user P0mbal
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Joshilyn Jackson

Photo by Harris Ponder
Jane Jacobs

C. L. R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Imamu Amiri Baraka

Library of Congress
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
James Joyce

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

kira-kira.us
Franz Kafka

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
John Keats

Jack Kerouac

Ian Kershaw

Ken Kesey

Rashid Khalidi

23 January 2009. Next Left Notes (Photo Credit: Thomas Good / NLN)
Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
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
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Asa Larsson

Bilder
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Camilla Läckberg

Suz
Primo Levi

CECIL DAY LEWIS

John Burlinson
David Liss

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Lucretius

Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Archibald MacLeish

Clements R Markham

Clements R. Markham. Painting by George Henry, frontispiece from The life of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. .. (1917)
Liza Marklund

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Brian McLaren

Photo by user Virgil Vaduva / English Wikipedia.
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Wikipédia France
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Peter Morville

Farley Mowat

Joseph Moxon

Joseph Moxon from 1896 Reprint of Mechanick Exercises ...
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Donna Jo Napoli

Anne Nelson

Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein
Isaac Newton, Sir

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Scott O'Dell

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Lynne Olson

Stanley Cloud
George Orwell

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

William Petty, Sir

Sir William Petty. From frontispiece to The life of Sir William Petty, 1623-1687 - chiefly derived from private documents hitherto unpublished (1895) by Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice.
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Diana Preston

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Celia Rees

Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
N. A. M. Rodger

Susan Rodger
Leona. [from old catalog] Rostenberg

Rudy v. B. Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Duc de Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J.D. Salinger

Simon schaffer

Alexei Kouprianov
Thomas C. Schelling

Photo by user Hessam Armandehi / Wikimedia Commons.
Laura Amy Schlitz

Joe Rubino
Sir Walter Scott

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

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Steven Shapin

Ragesoss
Georges Simenon

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Joshua Slocum

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71036)
Susan Sontag

Elizabeth George Speare

Benedictus de Spinoza

Wallace Earle Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Rebecca Stott

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Edward Palmer Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Anthony Trollope

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

from Wikipedia
Lao zi

John Updike

Martha Updike
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Various

Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Horace Walpole

Colin Watson

John Burlinson
Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Evelyn Waugh

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

Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Garry Wills

I took this photo!
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
Qiu Xiaolong

Louisa Lim
Laurence Yep

Fareed Zakaria

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Oct. 30, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
Adam Zamoyski

Wyklety
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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