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Edward Abbey

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Photo by user UNiesert / Wikimedia Commons
Anonymous

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Viktor Astafjev

Кузнецов

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Isaak Babel

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

Ingeborg Bachmann

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.
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Bashō

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Samuel Beckett

Joseph Bédier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Saul Bellow

Andrej Bjelyj

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Walter Benjamin

Henri Bergson


Thomas Bernhard

John Betjeman

Jens Bjørneboe

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

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

© Beth Kelly
Ancius Boethius

Godfried Bomans

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jorge Luis Borges

Tadeusz Borowski

James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
P.C. Boutens

Portrait by Jan Toorop (1908)
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
Hermann Broch

Max Brod

Wikipedia
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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dale Brown

Janet Browne

Rikke Claeson
Sir Thomas Browne

Robert Browning

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

Unknown photographer, c. 1911
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Margarete Buber-Neumann

John Burlinson
M.A. Boelgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
E. Bulwer Lytton

From Wikipedia
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Conrad Busken Huet

Conrad Busken Huet (1826-1886)
Samuel Butler

A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Caesar

public domain
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer

Albert Camus

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

S. Carmiggelt

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Graham Chapman

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
E.M. Cioran

J.M. Coetzee

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
e. e. cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France

Richard Dawkins

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons

John Donne

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

Fjodor M. Dostojevski

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
père Alexandre Dumas

Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Justus van Effen

Engraving (1756) by P. Tanjé after a portrait by Des Angeles
George Eliot

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

Marcellus Emants

Drawing by H.J. Haverman (1857-1928)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik

Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Epicurus

Image by ChrisO, 18 June 2006.From
WkipediaDesiderius Erasmus

Euripides

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Bobby Fischer

Gustave Flaubert

Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France

Max Frisch

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

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Benito Pérez Galdós

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Guido Gezelle

Guido Gezelle (1830-1899)
Edward. Gibbon

Wikipedia
André Gide

1893
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent van Gogh

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

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons

I.A. Gontsjarow

Edmond de Goncourt

Photo by Félix Nadar
(courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Maksim Gorki

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

Photograph (c. 1892) by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Baltasar Gracián

Cervantes Institute
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Graham Greene

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Franz Grillparzer

David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Lars Gustafsson

Suz
Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Nicolaas Beets

Engraving of N. Beets (Hildebrand) by Grebner/Lange
Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homerus

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Alexander von Humboldt

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Steve Jones

aleksandar2

James Joyce

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


Franz Kafka

Patrick Kavanagh


Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Yoshida Kenko

wikimedia commons - Portrait by Kikuchi Yosai(菊池容斎)
Daniil Charms


Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Heinrich von Kleist

Tim Krabbé

Milan Kundera

Philip Larkin

Reif Larsen

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
M.J. Lermontow

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Nikolaj etc. Ljeskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Primo Levi

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David. Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
A. A. Long

University of California at Berkeley
Federico García Lorca

Robert Lowell

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Thomas Mann

Gabriel García Márquez

Martial

From Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
IAN MCEWAN

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Czeslaw Miłosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
HARUKI MURAKAMI

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Kenzaburo Oe

Iurii Karlovich Olesha

From Wikipedia
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Juan Carlos Onetti

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Paul Van Ostaijen

Statue of Paul Van Ostaijen, Antwerp. Photo by user BrianKgs / Dutch Wikipedia.
Willem Jan Otten

Photo: N.J. van Duijvenboden
Piet Paaltjens

Lithograph by S. Lankhout (c. 1867)
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Konstantin Paustovskij

John Burlinson
Octavio Paz

Iain Pears

Samuel Pepys

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

Photo by A. Greiner (1880)
Fernando Pessoa

Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
A.F. Pisemski

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (d. 1930)
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Andrej Platonov

©The Random House Group
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Marcel Proust

Aleksandr S. Poesjkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
François Rabelais

Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
Craig Raine

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Samuel Richardson

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Edmond Rostand

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

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

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

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Sappho (van Lesbos)

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Arthur van Schendel

Photograph by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Gustav Schwab

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Walter Scott, Sir

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

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.

Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
Sei Shōnagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820

Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Fjodor Sologoeb

wikimedia commons
Sophokles

Spinoza


George Steiner

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Wislawa Szymborska

Tacitus

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry David Thoreau

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Theobald Wolfe Tone

Source: Speeches from the dock. Part I (Project Gutenberg)
Anthony Trollope

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

I.S. Toergenjew

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

John Updike

Martha Updike
François Villon

Publius Vergilius Maro

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

Kurt Vonnegut

A. Wainwright

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Alfred Russel Wallace

from Wikipedia
Lévi Weemoedt

Gilbert White

Wikipedia
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)
Tennessee Williams

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

jeanettewinterson.com
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

Paweł Cieśla
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Xenophon

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

Reid Yalom
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik

Jevgenij Zamjatin

Belle Van Zuylen

Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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