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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams


Aeschylus

Aleksandr Afanasev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W. H. Auden

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Samuel Beckett

Ambrose Bierce

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

Thomas Phillips
Boethius


Jorge Luis Borges

Julia Briggs

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Julius Caesar

public domain

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Paul Celan

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Noel Coward

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

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Richard Dawkins

Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Columbia University
Emile Durkheim

George Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Steven Erikson

Aidan Moher
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)
Orlando Figes


E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Neil Gaiman

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson


Alasdair Gray

Brian Greene

Ursula K. LeGuin

M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Herodotus

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Eric Hobsbawm

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia

Homer

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

Wikipédia France
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames Joyce

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

Eric R. Kandel

August Wieselmayer from Wien Vienna, Österreich Austria
George Kaufman

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

Wikimedia Commons
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Rudyard Kipling

Milan Kundera

George Lakoff


Philip Larkin

Mikhail ÍÙr§evich Lermontov

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Daniel Levy

Ralph Alswang
Ken MacLeod

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer

China Miéville

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Richard K. Morgan

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert

Vladimir Nabokov

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


E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Kenzaburo Oë

George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Fernando Pessoa


Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005

Rainer Maria Rilke

Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Joseph Roth

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtDesmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Dan Simmons

Adam Smith

Sophocles

Elizabeth George Speare

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore

Charles Stross

Koji Suzuki

© Vertical, Inc.
E.P. Thompson

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Jeff VanderMeer

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Vergil

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

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
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia

Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
William Butler Yeats

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

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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