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Image from Irish plays and playwrights (1913) by Cornelius Weygandt
Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Nicholas Afanasiev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
James Agee

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Yehuda Amichai

Israel Post
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristotle

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

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

Farid al-Din Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
W.H. Auden

Augustine of Hippo

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
St. Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Karl Barth

Saint Basil, Bishop of Caesarea

Statue of St. Basil the Great, St. Nicholas Church, Malá Strana, Prague. Photo by user Kostisl / Wikimedia Commons.
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Richard Baxter

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

Bede

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Hilaire Belloc

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

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Wendell Berry

Jacob Boehme

Ancius Boethius

Saint Bonaventure, Cardinal

wikipedia
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jorge Luis Borges

George Borrow

wikipedia
JAMES BOSWELL

Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Max Brod

Wikipedia
Thomas Browne

Martin Buber

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Gabriel Bunge

Photo by user Broederhugo / Wikimedia Commons
John Bunyan

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Titus Burckhardt

Edmund Burke

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

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Julius Caesar

public domain
John Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Roy Campbell

Bogdan Dimitriu, 2008
Fritjof Capra

John LeCarre

Lewis Carroll

Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Oswald Chambers

J. Wilbur Chapman

Image from Boston's Awakening: A Complete Account of the Great Boston Revival (1909) edited by Arcturus Z. Conrad
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Geoffrey Chaucer

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)
Michael J. Christensen

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.)
Agatha Christie

Saint John Chrysostom

Statue of St. John Chrysostom, St. Nicholas Church, Malá Strana, Prague. Photo by user Kostisl / Wikimedia Commons.
U.S. Catholic Church

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, 2003. Photo by John Workman / Wikipedia.
TOM CLANCY

Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
John Cleese

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr & Cropped for Wikipedia)
Alvin Langdon Coburn

Self portrait, 1922 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Paulo Coelho

Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Frederick Copleston

John Cornwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
St. John of the Cross

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Alexander Cruden

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Saint Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem

William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Robertson Davies

Dorothy Day

L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
John Donne

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

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

Klaus Reisinger
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Karl Von Eckartshausen

Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Edward Einhorn

Photo by Tanya Khordoc
T. S. Eliot

Elisabeth Elliot

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.)
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
M C Escher

Eusebius

W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
David Ferry

Marsilio Ficino

Bust by Andrea Ferrucci (at Florence Cathedral)
Charles G. Finney

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.)
Ian Fleming

Robert Fludd

Robert Fludd (1574–1637), English physicist, astrologer, and mystic. (Wikipedia Commons)
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Viktor E. Frankl

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

René Girard

Vicq
J. W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
CHARLES GORE

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

from Wikipedia
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
of Nazianzus Gregory, Saint

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

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

http://www.helmut-zenz.de/
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jon Hassler

Photo by Greg Becker
Seamus Heaney

Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Tony Hendra

Heraclitus

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Hermann Hesse

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

JACK HIGGINS

Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
James Hilton

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

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Robert E. Howard

Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

wikimedia commons
Karol Woytila

Eugene Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
St. Isaac of Syria

Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
William James

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

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Jean de Joinville

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Stefan Kanfer

Andrew Castle
Aryeh Kaplan

from a family photo
John Keble

John Keble, "From a photograph taken at Hursley Vicarage, in 1860, by the Rev. G.M. Gorham."
T. Byron Kelly

T.Byron K.
Thomas à Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Omar Khayyam.,

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Joyce Kilmer

ca. 1918
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Rudyard Kipling

Russell Kirk

Jerzy Kosinski

Peter Kreeft

http://www.peterkreeft.com/
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
William (M. A.) Law

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Nicolai Lyeskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Eliphas Levi

Wikipedia
C. S. Lewis

David Lindsay

Lin - Editor. Confucius. Yutang

Library of Congress
Auguste Villiers De L'isle-Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Federico Garcia Lorca

Guillaume de Lorris

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Ramon Llull

Statue of Ramon Llull, Univeristy of Barcelona. Photo by user Dr. Manuel / German Wikipedia.
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
George MacDonald

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.)

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Niccolo Machiavelli

Stéphane Mallarmé

Wikipédia France
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Harpo Marx

Credit: Vandamm Studio
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Richard Matheson

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Mary Taber-Lind
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Winsor McCay

1906
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Arthur Miller

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

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

MDCarchives
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
The 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.
Ward Moore

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

Gage Skidmore
Axel Munthe

Public domain
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Nabokov Vladimir

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Henry (trans. & ed.) Newman

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

Detail from the grave of Nicholas Cardinal of Cusa, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Photo by Werner B. Sendker / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
of Norwich Julian

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Novalis


Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Jaroslav Pelikan

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
John Perkins

Petronius

Philo of Alexandria

Wikipedia
Pindar

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
John Polkinghorne

Porphyry

Laurens van der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas De Quincey

Walter Rauschenbusch

Image from Dare We Be Christians (1914) by Walter Rauschenbusch
Johann Reuchlin

Nordisk familjebok
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
N. Rimsky-Korsakov

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
James M. Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

frere Roger

Photo credit: Michael König, December 30, 1991
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Steven Runciman

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
George Russell, William

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Philip Schaff

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

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

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
john sherrill

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.)
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Thorne Smith

Vladimir Solovyov

Image from Sobranie sochineni (1901) by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
Edmund Spenser

Edith Stein

George Steiner

Rudolf Steiner

Adin Steinsaltz

WIkipedia
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
James (introduction by Lloyd Frankenberg) (preface by Padraic Colum) Stephens

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Gottfried von Strassburg

Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
J. M. Synge

From Wikipedia
St. Ephrem

Romainian icon of St. Ephrem of Syria. Photo by user Troubageoff / French Wikipedia.
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Torquato Tasso

wikimedia commons
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor

Brian0324 of Wikipedia
Thomas Taylor

British National portrait Gallery
Alfred Tennyson

Therese de Lisieux

Statue of St. Thérèse, Holy Hill Shrine, Hubertus, Wisconsin. Photo by T. Canaan / Wikimedia Commons.
Aquinas Thomas, Saint

Thomas Dylan

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
J R R Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
A. W. Tozer

Photo courtesy of Lowell Tozer
P. L. Travers

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

Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
Louis Untermeyer

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

David M. Alexander
Jean Vanier

John Burlinson
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
VIRGIL

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

Eric Voegelin Institute
A. E. Waite

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

Courtesy of Benedicta Ward.
Kallistos Ware

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), 2005. Photograph © Jim Forest / Flickr.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Simone Weil

Wang Wei

David Schroeter, February 15, 2007
Franz. Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
John Wesley

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

Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Thornton Wilder

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

Edmund Wilson

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

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Donald A. Wollheim

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Xenophon.,

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

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane Yolen

Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik
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