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Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Aristote

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

©Rowena
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Roland Barthes

Svetislav Basara

From Wikipedia

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
The Beatles

Wikimedia Commons. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under digital ID cph.3c11094
Frédéric Beigbeder

Photo by Max Khokhlov
Jorge Luis Borges

Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Lewis Carroll

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Philippe Claudel

Jonathan Coe

John Michael Coetzee

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip Kindred Dick

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

Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Jean-Paul Dubois

Dylan Bob

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Falkner J M

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
F. Scott (Francis 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

Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Michel Foucault

André Gide

1893

Nicolas Gogol

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

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammet

Azarnick
Ernest Hemingway

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

Homère

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Arnaldur Indridason

Kafka Franz

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Kessel

Wikipédia France
Rudyard Kipling

Choderlos de Laclos

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

Wikimedia Commons
Gilles Lapouge

Esby
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Howard P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Alain Mabanckou

Machiavel

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Guy de Maupassant

Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Mccarthy Cormac

Derek Shapton
Mac Coy Horace

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Irène Némirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Arto Paasilinna

Matti Järvinen
George-P Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Fernando Pessoa

Pétrone

Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Abbé Prévost

Wikipédia France

Marcel Proust

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
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Pierre de Ronsard

Wikipédia France

Miguel de Cervantès Saavedra

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

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-112307
Madame de Sévigné

wikipedia
Elif Shafak

Bahar

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Susan Sontag

Sophocle

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Léon Tolstoï

public domain
Ivan Tourgueniev

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

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

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Voltaire

Max Weber

Oscar Wilde

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

Wordsworth William

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Qiu Xiaolong

Louisa Lim
Avraham B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

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