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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Douglas Adams

Ivo Andric

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Marc Aurel

Georg Büchner

Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

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

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Paulo Coelho

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Richard Dawkins

Jared Diamond

Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Joschka Fischer

Joschka Fischer and wife Minu
(Credit: Ickolle, Wikipedia user)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Egon Friedell

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Max Frisch

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

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Balthasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Ron Hale-Evans

Photo by Marty Hale-Evans
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Nick Hornby

Samuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eugene Ionesco

Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Franz Kafka

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Sören Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Klaus Kordon

Photo by Hans Peter Schaefer / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Niccolo Machiavelli

Golo Mann

Heinrich Mann

Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

David Maraniss

Gabriel García Márquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Guy de Maupassant

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Arthur Miller

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

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Portrait by Heinrich Pfenniger
Gudrun Pausewang

Photo by user Zefram / Wikimedia Commons
Karl R. Popper

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Ayn Rand

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jerome D. Salinger

Thomas Schelling

Photo by user Hessam Armandehi / Wikimedia Commons.
Friedrich von Schiller

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienGustav Schwab

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophokles

John Steinbeck

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

Photography (1886)
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Morton Rhue

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tsu

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Martin Walser

Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons
Max Weber

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Ernst von Weizsäcker (far left) with various officials from the Hungarian and German Governments, 1939. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Stefan Zweig

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