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J. J. Abrams, (dir.)

Neil Motteram (2006).
Bruce A. Ackerman

courtesy of Prof. Bruce Arnold Ackerman
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mortimer Jerome Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Boris Akunin

Madeleine Korbel Albright

from Wikipedia
Brian Aldiss, (ed.)

Szymon Sokół

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Jean Anouilh

Michael Apted, (dir.)

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Mike Aquilina

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Athanasius

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Attenborough, (dir.)

Wikipedia
W. H. Auden, (ed.)

Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Peter Paul Rubens
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
William Barclay

courtesy of the William Barclay Lectureship Trust
Pat Barker

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Richard Bauckham

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Rene Bazin

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ingmar Bergman, (dir.)

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Georges Bernanos

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

Christ and St. Bernard by Francisco Ribalta, early 17th century.
John Betjeman

Hiram Bingham

Congressional photo
Léon Bloy

Photography (1887)
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Boethius

Gaston Boissier

Project Gutenberg
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Ray Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Bertolt Brecht

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Richard Brookhiser

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

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Gabriel Bunge

Photo by user Broederhugo / Wikimedia Commons
Edmund Burke

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Alban Butler

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

public domain
Callimachus

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Eva Cantarella

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2249125548/in/set-72157603706880065/
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Orson Scott Card

Warren Hasty Carroll

A Carthusian

La Grande Chartreuse, 2006. Photo by user Eusebius / Wikimedia Commons.
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Michael Casey

Photograph by Katherine Casey.
John Cassian

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Constantine Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Michel du Cille
François-René Chateaubriand, vicomte de

Wikipedia
Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Agatha Christie

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Carl von Clausewitz

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

R. G. Collingwood

Saint Claude de La Colombiere

Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames T. Como

Peter Connolly

Christodouloug534
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Guy Consolmagno

Guy Consolmagno with the Vatican Meteorite collection, Castel Gandalfo, 2002. Photo by Kevin Nickerson.
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Frederick Charles Copleston, s.j.

Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Norman Cousins


William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Richard Dawkins

Kevin S. Decker, (ed.)

Dr. Kevin S. Decker
Demosthenes

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Melvil Dewey

from Wikipedia

Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008

Michael Clynes


John Donne

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

Margaret Drabble, (ed.)

Photo © Jerry Bauer
John Drinkwater

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


Gerald Durrell

Clint Eastwood, (dir.)

Credit: Martin Kraft, 2007, Berlinale
Umberto Eco

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

Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Einhard

from Wikipedia
Sergei Eisenstein, (dir.)

Joseph J. Ellis

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

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Eusebius of Caesarea

Anne Fadiman, (ed.)

Connie Miller
Philip José Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon

wikimedia commons
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
C. S Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Adrian Fortescue

"A portrait (from a photograph)". Reproduced in ADRIAN FORTESCUE: A MEMOIR by John G. Vance and J. W. Fortescue (London: Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1924)
Anatole France

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

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Viktor Emil Frankl

Pat Frank

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

George MacDonald Fraser

James George Frazer

Stephen Frears, (dir.)

Sweden, 1989, promoting Dangerous Liaisons (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
Charles Émile Freppel

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

Justus Sustermans
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Friedrich von Gentz

Mel Gibson, (dir.)

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
John Gielgud, Sir

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Martin Goodman

Nicholas Hawkins
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Baltasar Gracián y Morales

Cervantes Institute
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Ferdinand Gregorovius

from Wikipedia, photographer unidentified
Romano Guardini

http://www.helmut-zenz.de/
Jan Guillou

Wikimedia Commons
Ursula K. Le Guin

Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Hafiz

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Edith Hamilton

Robert Harris

Peter Hart

Paul Harvey, Sir

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Zahi A. Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Paul Hazard

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-16572)
(cropped)
Seamus Heaney

Chris Hedges

Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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)
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

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


Gilbert Highet

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

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Eric Hobsbawm


Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown

Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Samuel Lynn Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Saint Ignatius of Loyola

wikimedia commons
John Paul II

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Peter Jackson, (dir.)

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of director Peter Jackson, not software writer Peter Jackson.
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Michael Jecks

Philip Jenkins

Courtesy of Philip Jenkins
Simon Jenkins

Boris Johnson

Photo by johnhemming / Flickr.
Colin Jones

Ernst Junger

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Donald Kagan

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

Wikimedia Commons
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Christopher Kelly

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Thomas a Kempis

Kenkˆo Yoshida

wikimedia commons - Portrait by Kikuchi Yosai(菊池容斎)
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Ross King

Rudyard Kipling

Félix Klein

Image from Diary of a French army chaplain (1915) by Abbé Félix Klein
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Gary A. Kowalski

Gary Kowalski, author
Peter Kreeft

http://www.peterkreeft.com/
Hans Kung, (ed.)

Wikimedia Commons
Akira Kurosawa, (dir.)

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

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

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

Rodolfo Lanciani (bottom right). Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A. La Regina

Photo by Lilithcat
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Henri Le Caron

Mary R. Lefkowitz

National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Albin Lesky

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University

C. S. Lewis

Henry George Liddell

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

Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Christopher Logue

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Henri de Lubac

Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Lucretius


Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Niccolò Machiavelli

Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Magnus Magnusson, (ed.)

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Joseph de Maistre

wikimedia - portrait by Karl Vogel von Vogelstein, ca. 1810
David Mamet, (dir.)

Brigitte Lacombe
Osip Mandelshtam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Henry Edward Manning

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

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Martial

From Wikipedia
Charles Martin

John Masefield, (ed.)

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Frederica Mathewes-Green

Mary Taber-Lind
Philip Matyszak

Philip Matyszak
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Alister McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Loreena McKennitt

Donna Griffiths
Menander

Roman copy of the Imperial era
after a Greek original (ca. 343–291 BC),
Museo Chiaramonti
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Bruce Manning Metzger

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Georges Michel

Esby.
James A. Michener

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

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

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Giles Milton

John Milton

Theodor Mommsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, Saint

Monks of New Skete

New Skete Monastery in the Snow. Photo by user Temp / Wikipedia.
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Claudio Monteverdi

from Wikipedia
Saint Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Christopher Morley

Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)
1783 engraving, London
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-45482)

Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Ian Mortimer

Courtesy of Alexander Mortimer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Cullen Murphy

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
British Museum

The British Museum
(doesn't *look* like an author, does it?)
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Photo by Andrew Hayward / Flickr.
Alfred de Musset

Wikipédia France
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Photo by Alison Felstead

John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Michel Onfray

Hans H. Oerberg

Wikimedia Commons
Nicholas Ostler

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
R. R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Eliot Pattison

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Pearce

Used by permission of
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Padraic H. Pearse

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Iain Pears

Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Nikolaus Pevsner

Nathaniel Philbrick

Pindar

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Pius VI


Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Titus Maccius Plautus

Plutarch

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
J. C. Polkinghorne

Polybius

Francois Poulenc

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAnthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Diana Preston

Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)

Barbara Pym

Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, (ed.)

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Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Kathleen Raine

Meladina
Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
Benedict XVI

Wikipedia
Satyajit (dir.) Ray

Rishiraj Sahoo
Marcus Rediker

Used with permission from author, Marcus Rediker.
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Armand Plessis, S.M.M.

Sculpture by Francesco Schiaffino, 1748,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx

Jonathan Riley-Smith

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Maximilien de Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaJoseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Steven Runciman

Bertrand Russell

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

wikimedia commons
St. François de Sales

wikimedia commons
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Girolamo Savonarola

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
James V. Schall

Simon Schama

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

Columbia University
Christoph Schoenborn

Christoph Cardinal von Schönborn in Altötting, Germany, 11 Sep. 2006.
Photo by user Th1979 / Wikimedia Commons

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Peter Shaw

Accent Press Ltd
William R. Shea

Photo by Jonathan S. Anderson
Robert Cedric Sherriff

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

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół

Georges Simenon

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B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
David R. Slavitt

David R. Slavitt, b. 1935, aka Henry Sutton, no image located yet
Cordwainer Smith

Herbert Weir Smyth

Bryn Mawr College Archives
Bruno Snell

Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Steven Spielberg, (dir.)

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Jon Stallworthy, (ed.)

Library of Congress
Olaf Stapledon

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

courtesy of Prof. Rodney Stark
Peter N. Stearns

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
George Steiner

George Rippey Stewart

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

At the 2007 New York Comic-Con.
Lee Strobel

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Ronald Syme

wikipedia
Cornelius Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

wikipedia
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Saint Therese of Lisieux

Statue of St. Thérèse, Holy Hill Shrine, Hubertus, Wisconsin. Photo by T. Canaan / Wikimedia Commons.
Adolphe Thiers

Wikipédia France
Walter Thirring


Saint Thomas Aquinas

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Tibullus

Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons

J. R. R. Tolkien

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Sun Tzu

Paul Valéry

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Lanza del Vasto

© Community of the Ark of Lanza del Vasto / Wikimedia Commons.
Vatican II

Cupola, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. Image by Janine Pohl / Wikimedia Commons.
Giuseppe Verdi

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

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 305, October, 1875 (Wikimedia Commons)
Gore Vidal

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

The Embalmed body of St. Vincent de Paul. Photo by user FLLL / Wikimedia Commons
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
John Walsh, (ed.)

President Bush signs H.R. 4472, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, as John Walsh, center, and his wife, Reve Walsh, look on. The bill is named for the Walsh’s six-year-old son Adam Walsh who was abducted and killed 25 years ago.
Mika Waltari

Izaak Walton

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Andrew Ward

Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Benedicta Ward

Courtesy of Benedicta Ward.
Kallistos Ware

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), 2005. Photograph © Jim Forest / Flickr.
Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Alexander Waugh

Glyn Howells
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
James H. Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Max Weber

Simone Weil

Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Peter Weiss

Photograph by Dietbert Keßler (1982)
Rebecca West

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David Allen White

Photo of David Allen White (b. 1943) taken in October 2006.
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Charles Williams

John Edward Williams

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
David Wishart

Tobias Wolff

Paul Woodruff

Marsha Miller
Frank Wynne

Photo by Paul Rider, 2006.
Xenophon

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Qiu Xiaolong

Louisa Lim
Leo XIII

1903 photograph of painting (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-124242)
Saint Pius X

Pope Pius X, 23 April 1910. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-DIG-ggbain-04859)
SSPX

Church of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet, Paris. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
the Younger Pliny

Wolfgang Sauber
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Felix Youssoupoff

Wikipedia
Adam Zamoyski

Wyklety
Yimou Zhang, (dir.)

Alejandro Bárcenas
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