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Edward Abbey

Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Jane Addams

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Eric Alterman

Stephen E. Ambrose

Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Anonymous

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
St. Augustine

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Lester Bangs

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
John Barth

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
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Charles A. Beard

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

Samuel Beckett

Edward Bellamy

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

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)
George Berkeley

Alexander Berkman

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00769)
Wendell Berry

Michael R. Beschloss

Library of Congress
Daniel P. Bolger

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Army Brig. Gen. Daniel P. Bolger, commander of the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, La., observe training at the JRTC, May 4. Photo by Jean Dubiel
Gustave Le Bon

Wikimedia Commons
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Max Boot

Jorge Luis Borges

Gabor S. Boritt

Photograph by Liz Boritt
Tadeusz Borowski

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

T. C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Fernand Braudel

Richard Brautigan

Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher at World Social Forum 3, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003. (courtesy of
ZNet)
Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
William F. Buckley Jr.

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Kenneth Burke

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Mark Caldwell

Photograph by Andrew Nahema
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
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)
Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Bruce Catton

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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
Henry M. Christman

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

Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr
A.C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Paulo Coelho

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJoseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephanie Coontz

T Cooper

My image taken at Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
Robert Coover

Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Roger Daniels

Roger Daniels (1927- )
University of Cincinnati Charles Phelps Taft
Professor Emeritus of History
Charles Darwin

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

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Denis Diderot

Wilhelm Dilthey

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia

Bob Dylan

Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Desiderius Erasmus

Steve Erickson

Lyle Estill

photo by Tami Schwerin
Frantz Fanon

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
David H. Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Frances FitzGerald

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)

Michel Foucault

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Margaret Fuller

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

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Henry Louis Gates

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Nelson George

Holly George-Warren

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons/Cropped)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Gilbert & Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
(cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
John Steele Gordon

Photo by Marcell Vandehaar, 1996
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert, Graves

The William Graves Collection
Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
F. A. Hayek

Georg W. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
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)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E. J. Hobsbawm

John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Joan Hoff Wilson

Montana State University
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgVictor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Samuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Columbia University
A. J. Jacobs

Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
William James

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Mother Jones

Copyright by Bertha Howell, 1902 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-47038)

Franz Kafka

Zachary Karabell

Joanne Chan
mIchael Kazin

Center for American Progress
Thomas à Kempis

David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Rudyard Kipling

Klein Naomi

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
WILLIAM L. LANGER

Harvard Square Library
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Ray Lemoine

V. I. Lenin

Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
William E. (Editor) Leuchtenburg

Stacy Marsh, UNC-Chapel Hill
Daniel J. Levitin

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Meriwether Lewis

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

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

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Daido Loori

Photo by Jeffrey Radcliffe / Flickr.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Nick Mason

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2006
Guy de Maupassant

John McManners

Hugh McManners
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Allan Megill

R. Felski
Deborah Meier

deborahmeier.com
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
China Mieville

Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas More

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

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Arthur Nersesian

David Shankbone, September 2007
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Julian of Norwich

Walter Nugent

Martin Altmann
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Michael B. Oren


George Orwell

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

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John Roderigo Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Kevin Phillips

John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Daniel Pinchbeck

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath


Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Adgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Roy Porter

Francine Prose

Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

Albert J. Raboteau

Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Relligion, Princeton University. Photo by J.T. Miller, 1990 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jacques Ranciere

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
John Rawls

John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Tom Robbins

Alessandro Roncaglia

from the author
Robert A. Rosenstone

Ruth Miller
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

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)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Chris Salewicz

Tami Peterson
J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Leigh Schmidt

Prof. Leigh Eric Schmidt (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Tobias Schneebaum

Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
MIchael Sells

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Harry Shapiro

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Shel Silverstein

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Aquinas Thomas

Dylan Thomas


E. P. Thompson


Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Leo Tolstoi

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

"Randy F."
Various

Thorsten Veblen

Wikipedia
Gore Vidal

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

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


Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Walter Wangerin

Max Weber

Eric Weisbard

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienOscar Wilde

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

J.D. Sloan
Robert Anton Wilson

Flickr user dbuk2
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Tom Wolfe

Ronald Wright

Nick Wiebe
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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