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Peter Abelard

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Adams

reading_fox
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Scott Adams

Aleksandr Afanas'Ev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Tschingis Aitmatow

Andreas Zak
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Boris Akunin

Christopher Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Johann Valentin Andreae

Nordisk familjebok
Anonymous

Anselm

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Dionysius the Areopagite

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

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

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

Jerry Bauer
Achim von Arnim

Painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling (1805)
Juan Luis Arsuaga

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
St. Augustine

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

I. Babel'

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carl Ph. E. Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Wikipedia.
Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans

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.
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Georg Büchner

James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Richard Becker

Joseph Bedier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Hilaire Belloc

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

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Walter Benjamin

Saint Bernard Clairvaux

Christ and St. Bernard by Francisco Ribalta, early 17th century.
John Betjeman, Sir

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

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

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Poggio Fiorentino

Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
André Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Frederick P. Brooks

Mel Brooks

Wikimedia Commons
Giordano Bruno

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Art Buchwald

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Wilhelm Busch

Selfportrait (1894)
George Gordon Lord Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
John Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Lewis Carroll

Baldassar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Graham Chapman, 1941?-

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Charles d' Orléans

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Hendrik Conscience

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Владимир Иванович Даль

portrait by Vasily Perov (1872), courtesy Wikipedia
Piero : della Francesca

Self Portrait (detail of Resurrection)
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Alexandre Dumas

John Duns Scotus

unknown
Will Durant

Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
A. S. Eddington

T. S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
John Emsley

Photo by John Holman
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

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)
Eusebius

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Marsilio Ficino

Bust by Andrea Ferrucci (at Florence Cathedral)
Orlando Figes

Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Gustave Flaubert

Dario Fo

Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
James G. Frazer

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
William Gibson

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Ivan Goncharov

Herman Gorter

Photograph (c. 1892) by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Baltasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Nick Groom

Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
George Frideric Handel

Wikipedia Commons.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
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
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Johann Gottfried Herder

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
P.C. Hooft

wikipedia
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
J. Huizinga

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

Wikipédia France
Christiaan Huygens

of Loyola Ignatius, Saint

wikimedia commons
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Jerome K. Jerome

Samuel Johnson

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

Alfred Gudeman
James Joyce

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

Wladimir Kaminer

Wladimir Kaminer tasting famous Quince Schnapps, 2005. Photo by user Schorle / Wikimedia Commons.
Immanuel Kant

N.M. Karamzin

(Library of Congress Division of Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-128265)
John Keats

Thomas a Kempis

Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Daniil Charms

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ross King

Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Ephraim Kishon

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Heinrich von Kleist

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Portrait by Jens Juel. Photo by user Saddhiyama / Wikimedia Commons.
Rem Koolhaas

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, kniaz

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

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photogrpahs, LC-USZ62-128274)
Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Pär Lagerkvist

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
P. Langendijk

Engraving by C. Pronk/J. Houbraken
K g langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
James Legge

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
G. W. Leibniz

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Jacob van Lennep

Engraving by P. Velijn after a drawing by W. Grebner (1832)
Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Nikolai Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Janna Levin

jannalevin.com
Daniel J. Levitin

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Matthew G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Marina Lewycka

Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty, provided by himself
J.G. Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart. Frontispiece from The life and letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1897) by Andrew Lang
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
fl. 1230 Guillaume de Lorris

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucianus

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Lucretius

Ramon Lull

Statue of Ramon Llull, Univeristy of Barcelona. Photo by user Dr. Manuel / German Wikipedia.
Martin Luther

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Niccolo Machiavelli

Jacob Van Maerlant

Statue of Jacob van Maerlant, Damme, Belgium. Photo by user Donderwolk / Wikimedia Commons.
Albertus Magnus

Moses Maimonides

Xavier De Maistre

Portrait by Charles Steuben
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Ossip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Martialis

From Wikipedia
Guy de Maupassant

V.V. Majakovski

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
John Milton

Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady

Michel de Montaigne

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

Wikipédia France
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Christian Morgenstern

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Vladˆimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Novalis

William Ockham

Булат Шалвович Окуджава

George Orwell

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

Lithograph by S. Lankhout (c. 1867)
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Bai Juyi

Liuhou Temple & Park, Liuzhou City, China. Photo by David Schroeter / Flickr.
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Jean Paul

Portrait by Heinrich Pfenniger
Milorad Pavič

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Fernando Pessoa

Petronius Arbiter

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
de Pisan Christine, ca. ca. 1431

from Wikipedia
Plato

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

©The Random House Group
Plotinus

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
ca. 234-ca. 305 Porphyry

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcel Proust

Henry Purcell

William Nelson Gardiner / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAlexander Pushkin

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
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Francois Rabelais

Racine

Wikipédia France
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev

wikimedia commons
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
James M. Robinson

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
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)
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
marquis de Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

J. D. Salinger

Jean Paul Sartre

J.C.F. von Schiller

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
b. ca. 967 Sei Sh¯onagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Oswald Spengler

Benedict de Spinoza

A.C.W. Staring

Engraving by L. Moritz/J.H. Rennefeld
George Steiner

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

I. F. Stone

Kzitelman
Leon E Stover

Dr. Leon Stover in his library at IIT, Chicago
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Aquinas Thomas, Saint

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Keenan Pepper
J.R.R. Tolkien

Hendrik Tollens

Engraving (1820), by P. Velijn after a drawing by H.W. Caspari
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Arnold Joseph Toynbee

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Степан Фёдорович Александровский (d. 1906)
Lao zi

Sun Tzu

Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
François Villon

Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Vladimir Voinovich

Galina Zakhoder
Voltaire

Joost van den Vondel

Portrait by Ph. Koninck (1665)
Jacobus de Voragine

Detail from "Crucifixion" by Ottaviano Nelli, Chapel of the Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. Photo by Georges Jansoone / Wikimedia Commons
Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
David Foster Wallace

Larry Wall

Timothy Ware

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), 2005. Photograph © Jim Forest / Flickr.
Otto Weininger

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Oswald von Wolkenstein

Xenophon

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

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Gaius d. Jüngere Plinius Secundus

Wolfgang Sauber
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Edward Yourdon

Evgeni Ivanovich Zamiatin

Isabelle de Charriere

Portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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