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Dean Acheson

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Aeschylus

Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Graham T. Allison

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Jonathan Alter

Photograph by Damien Donck
Stephen Ambrose

Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Sherwood Anderson

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

Anne Applebaum

Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Alessandro Barbero

Alben William Barkley

Photo by Hessler Studio, Washington, D.C.
(trumanlibrary.org)
Simone de Beauvoir

Arnold Bennett

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

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Michael R. Beschloss

Library of Congress
John Bierman

Herbert P. Bix

Columbia University
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
James G. BLAINE

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Claude G. Bowers

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

William. [Samuel Eliot Morrison.] BRADFORD

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Fernand Braudel

Anne Bronte

Charlotte Brontë

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
Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
James MacGregor Burns

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Edwin G. Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Theodore E Burton

Goerge H. W. Bush

James F. Byrnes

Wikipedia (Library of Congress, from U.S. Office of War Information)
Julius Caesar

public domain
James M. Cain

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

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

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
John le Carre

Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Willa Cather

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

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)
Ron Chernow

Sigrid Estrada
Jessie Childs

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Randolph S. Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill, his son Randolph, and grandson, Winston in coronation robes: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05370)
Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Philippe De Commynes

Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Calvin Coolidge

from Wikipedia
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Dahrendorf, 2003. Photo by Holger Noß / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles G. Dawes

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen",
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
E.L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Library of Congress
Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Alexandre Dumas père

Will Durant

Walter Evans Edge

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress LC-DIG-ggbain-27704).
John Edwards

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Senate Portrait)
Dwight Eisenhower, D.

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
George Eliot

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

Credit: E.F. Winerock
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Guglielmo Ferrero

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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)
Gustave Flaubert

Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Shelby Foote

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Gerald R. Ford

Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R. F. (Robert Fitzroy) Foster

John Fowles

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
J. William Fulbright

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Government Photo)
Ernest B. Furgurson

Tom Bethell
John Lewis Gaddis

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Barton Gellman

Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Nikolai Gogol

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

Congressional Portrait
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lewis L. Gould

Perseus Books Group
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Fred I. Greenstein

Prof. Fred I. Greenstein (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John Guy

Author's website
William Hague

Photo by openDemocracy / Flickr, edited by LT uploader.
Alexander M. Haig Jr.

Photo by Tom Ordelman (Wikimedia Commons)
David Halberstam

Alonzo Hamby

Rick Fatica, Ohio University
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
John Hay

John Hay, c 1897 (Library of Congress)
Steven F. Hayward

Pacific Research Institute
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)
Peter. Hennessy

Peter Hennessy (on left)
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)
Hermann Hesse

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

Christopher Hill

William Hogeland

Photograph by Barbara Brousal
Homer

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

from Wikipedia
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgVictor Hugo

wikipedia
J. Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Hubert H. Humphrey

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Harold L. Ickes

U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Michael Isikoff

Emily Schneider
Robert H. Jackson

Credit: Harris & Ewing, circa 1945
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-38828)
Henry James

Wikipedia
Marquis James

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

Hamilton Jordan

Carter White House Photographs Collection (NARA) - Wikipedia
Matthew Josephson

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Michael Kazin

Center for American Progress
John Keats

Christopher Kelly

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Princess Michael of Kent

Photo by Terry O'Neill
Jack Kerouac

Ian Kershaw

Ken Kesey

Henery Kissinger

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Madame de Lafayette

Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
William E. Leuchtenberg

Stacy Marsh, UNC-Chapel Hill
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

from Wikipedia
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Thomas Mann

David Maraniss

Philip Matyszak

Philip Matyszak
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Charles Mccarry

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. William Middendorf II

Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf (Center) ~ U.S. Dept. of Defense
John Miller

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
Merle Miller

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

Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Theodor; Grafton Mommsen, Anthony (translation); Dickson, W.P. (intro)

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

Hugh Burnand
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Sir Harold Nicolson

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

Official U.S. Presidential Portrait (National Archives & Recores)
Peggy Noonan

George W. Norris

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Robert D. Novak

Liam O'Flaherty

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

Lynne Olson

Stanley Cloud
Emmuska Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Michael B. Oren

David M. Oshinsky

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Boies Penrose

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Joseph E. Persico

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Petronius

Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Katherine Ann Porter

Roy Porter

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Ronald Reagan

DoD photo, April 8, 1983 (DA-SC-90-03096)
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
Samuel Richardson

Jonathan Riley-Smith

Peter Rowland

Steven Runciman

Russell Sir, William Howard,

Photo circa 1861-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02458)
Miguel De Cervantes

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
William Safire

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

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Walter Scott

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

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
George Shultz

Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler
Kenneth Silverman

2003 Nancy Crampton
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Gene Smith

Richard Norton Smith

U.S. White House Biographical Photo
Reed Smoot

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Kevin Starr

John Steinbeck

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Gaius Tranquillus Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Ronald Syme

wikipedia
Tacitus

Robert A. Taft

Painting by Rudolf Bernatschke, 1953 (U.S. Senate Art & History)
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Taubman

Columbia University
George Tenet

Official Central Intelligence Agency Portrait (Wikipedia)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Margaret Thatcher

NASA
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
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Hans L. Trefousse

Brooklyn College Archives and Special Collections
Anthony (Hassall Trollope, Joan [illustrator])

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

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Harry S. (1884-1972) Truman

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo by Frank Gatteri
(trumanlibrary.org)
Rexford Guy, Tugwell

Photograph circa 1935-37 (LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USF344-003487-ZB)
Moses Coit Tyler

Credit: William Notman, 1872 (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-42558)
Gore Vidal

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

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James Eli Watson

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Evelyn Waugh

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

John C. Waugh
Geoffrey Wawro

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Loren Bonser
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Jennifer L. Weber

Credit: Richard Kassebaum
(photo courtesy of Jennifer L. Weber)
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
William Allen White

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-37609)
Oscar Wilde

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

Prof. Sean Wilentz (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
J. Harvie Wilkinson

Wikimedia Commons (Produced by U.S. Government)
Garry Wills

I took this photo!
P.G. Wodehouse

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

Kenny Braun
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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