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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Theodor Adorno

Madeleine K. Albright

from Wikipedia
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
W.H. Auden

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Augustus

from Wikipedia
Marcus Aurelius

Mark Baker

Mark Baker, Author of Books on Welsh Country Houses (Wikipedia)
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Samuel Beckett

Walter Benjamin

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
John Biguenet

Loyola University New Orleans
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elleke Boehmer

Danielle Battigelli
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
James Boswell

Malcolm Bradbury

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anthony Burgess

Seán Burke

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Julius Caesar

public domain
Alex Callinicos

Alex Callinicos (right) with Adele Oliveri at World Social Forum 3, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003 (courtesy of
ZNet)
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)
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Colette

from Wikipedia
James Lawton Collins

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Military Photo)
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Romeo Dallaire

Joshua Sherurcij
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Mike Davis

U.S. Army

defenselink.mil
Jacques Derrida

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Cassius Dio

Frederick Douglass

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

TERRY EAGLETON

Billlion
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)
T.S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
William Empson

John Burlinson
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Niall Ferguson

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Viktor E. Frankl

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

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

William John Thomson
George Gissing

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Godwin

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

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Richard N. Haass

Robert Scoble
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Max Hastings

F.A. Hayek

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Werner Heisenberg

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
E.D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Hobsbawm

James Hogg

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Johnson

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

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

FRANK KERMODE

Jack Kerouac

Ian Kershaw

Rudyard Kipling

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Paul Levine

Primo Levi

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Marina Lewycka

Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Robert Lowell

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Christopher Marlowe

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

James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Alexander Masters

Autobiography nominee Alexander Masters (left)
chats with poetry winner Troy Jollimore
at the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganPhilip Matyszak

Philip Matyszak
Guy de Maupassant

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Nancie McDermott

Walter Russell Mead

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
John Stuart Mill

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

W. J. T. Mitchell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Harold G. Moore

Authors Joseph L. Galloway (left) and Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore (Ret.), USA, (right), share a light moment while speaking at an Officer Professional Development session at Fort Hood's Howze Theater. Photo by AMY B. BOMBASSARO, CIV, 2/15/2002
Jan Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Defense Dept. photo by Gerry J. Gilmore
(defenselink.mil)
Thomas Nashe

Harold Nicolson

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

Gustav Schultze
Joseph S. Nye

Official Department of Defence Portrait by Scott Davis, 11 Oct. 1994
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
George Orwell

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Sylvia Plath

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Karl Popper

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
I.A. Richards

Paul Ricoeur

Charles James Rolo

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

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Walter Rudin

Wikipedia
Steven Runciman

Bertrand Russell

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

Jean-Pau Sartre

Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Mary Seacole

Sketch of Mary Seacole (1805-1881) in c.1855, by William Simpson (1823-1899); (Wikipedia)
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Elena Seibert
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

Gertrude Stein

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

Anne Stevenson

Library of Congress
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Suetonius

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

wikipedia
Tacitus

Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Virgil

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

Hugh Walpole

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number
Evelyn Waugh

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

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIRVINE WELSH

www.chrismsaunders.com
Arnold Wesker

William C. And Sharp Westmoreland, U.S.G.

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Army Photo)
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/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W.B. Yeats

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

Wolfgang Sauber
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