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ANON

Paperback Pirate
Joseph Addison

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

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Aristotle

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

Marcus Aurelius

I. Babel

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

Robert Bakker

From Wikipedia
Henri Barbusse

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Simone de Beauvoir

Saul Bellow

Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn c. 1951, by Tobias Falberg. From
Wikipedia.
Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac

Wikipedia
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Jorge Luis Borges

Mark Bowden

Fernand Braudel

Richard Brautigan

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Michail Afanasevic Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Edmund Burke

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

Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Bo Carpelan

Teemu Rajala
Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
François René Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
G.K. Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
J.M. Coetzee

Johann Amos Comenius

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

from Wikipedia
Gabriele D'Annunzio

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

defenselink.mil
Eugène Delacroix

Self-portrait, 1860 (Yorck Project)
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Horace Engdahl

Erasmus av Rotterdam

Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642

Justus Sustermans
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Edmond L.A.H.De Goncourt

Photo by Félix Nadar
(courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Baltasar Gracián y Morales

Cervantes Institute
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Lars Gustafsson

Suz
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Robert Harris

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Seamus Heaney

Sven Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-17306)
Georg W. Fr. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Verner von Heidenstam

Johan Krouthén
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes

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

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Huizinga Johan

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Henry James

Wikipedia
Katerina Janouch

Jan Ainali
Elfriede Jelinek

Jean de Joinville

James Joyce

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Lev Zalmanovic Kopelev

Photo by Elke Wetzig / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

Halldór Laxness

General von Lettow-Vorbeck

Image from Meine erinnerungen aus Ostafrika (1920) by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Oscar Levertin

Georg Chr. Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
Sven Lindqvist

Carl von Linné

From "Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Scientists," Elbert Hubbard, 1916 (Project Gutenberg)
Ramón Llull

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

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

Carl Van Vechten
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Heinrich Mann

Thomas Mann

Groucho Marx

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

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
John Milton

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil

Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Petronius Arbiter

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Platon

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

©The Random House Group
Gerald Posner

Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Paul Ricoeur

Arundhati Roy

Douglas Rushkoff

KLRU's Engaging Speaker Series, April 2007, photo by Bruce Turner
Anatoli Rybakov

from Wikipedia
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)
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

wikimedia commons
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Friedrich von Schiller

Budd Schulberg

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118219
E.F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Madame De Sevigne

wikipedia
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Albert Speer

Oswald Spengler

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Georg Stiernhielm

August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Viktor Suvorov

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Image from Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (1919) by Sir Albert Gerald Stern
Tacitus

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Michel Tournier

helgon Gregorius av Tours

Statue of Gregory of Tours, Cour Napoléon, the Louvre. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Lionel Trilling

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Paul Virilio

Photo by GASTEV - "Live" democracy is in my opinion no longer democracy.
Voltaire

Evelyn Waugh

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

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

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

Bob Woodward

Lawrence Wright

Kenny Braun
Theodore Ziolkowski

Prof. Theodore Ziolkowski. Photo credit: Denise Applewhite, 2002 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Stefan Zweig

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