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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Scott Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Aeschylus

Edward Albee

Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hannah Arendt

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michael Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pat Barker

Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Samuel Beckett

Walter Benjamin

Bob Black

Jorge Luis Borges

Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Dee Brown

Martin Buber

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Iris Chang

Anton Chekhov

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

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Lesley Choyce

Ward Churchill

Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr
Carl von Clausewitz

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Jean Cocteau

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

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Romeo Dallaire

Joshua Sherurcij
Robertson Davies

Mike Davis

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Guy Debord

Jamie Delano

Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

Jared Diamond

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
Jacques Ellul

used by permission ©AIJE
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Robert Fisk

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jean Genet

Andre Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Gipi

Joe Zattere
Nikolai Gogol

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

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

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Graham Greene

Ursula K. Le Guin

Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Seamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

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)
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.
Hermann Hesse

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

Ho Chi Minh

wikipedia
Jack Holland

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Edmund Husserl

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Uzodinma Iweala

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
James Joyce

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

Larry Kahaner

Member of TalkingDC
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Jack Kerouac

Rashid Khalidi

23 January 2009. Next Left Notes (Photo Credit: Thomas Good / NLN)
Sören Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
W. P. Kinsella

Robert Kirkman

Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Michael Muhammad Knight

Wikipedia user Jfarhad
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Petr Kropotkin

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

Madame de La Fayette

George Lakoff

Harold Lamb

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

Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Mikhail Lermontov

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
C. S. Lewis

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jeph Loeb

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Rosa Luxemburg

From Wikimedia Commons
Staughton Lynd

Staughton Lynd (1929- )
courtesy of
ZNetNiccolo Machiavelli

Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
Thomas Mann

Mao Zedong

from Wikipedia
Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Marshall McLuhan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oë

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Thomas Pynchon

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Maximilien Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaMarilynne Robinson

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Mark Steel

flickr user Loz Flowers. Credited at Wikipedia to user Loz Pycock.
John Steinbeck

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

Ekko von Schwichow
Tacitus

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Gore Vidal

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

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

Galina Zakhoder
Francois Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Mark Waid

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Jack Whyte

Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
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/WienVirginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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