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D'Arcy Norman
Edward Abbey

Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Aeschylus

Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Piers Anthony

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
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
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Gertrude. Atherton

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

George Whiteside
Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
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.
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Saul Bellow

Viken Berberian

Esby
Georges Bernanos

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

Library of Congress
Kai Bird

Columbia University
(Kai Bird is at center)
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Stewart Brand

Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
David Brin

By R. Feist
Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Terry Brooks

Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown, Comic Book Writer at Heroes Con 2006 (Wikipedia)
William F. Jr Buckley

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

From Wikipedia
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Edmund Burke

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
W. Hodding Carter

Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Graham Caveney

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Elze Hamilton
Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
John Cornwell

George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
Barry Cunliffe

John Darnton

J. Player
Ray Davies

Flavio Ferrari, October 28, 2007
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Lydia Davis

Don DeLillo

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Stephen R Donaldson

John Donne

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

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
David Anthony Durham

Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Joseph J. Ellis

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

Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Euripides

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

Howard Fast

Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

John H. Finley

John H. Finley (1863-1940), author of
A Pilgrim in Palestine. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
John Lewis Gaddis

Neil Gaiman

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
John Gould

Photo is of the 19th-century British ornithologist, not of the modern Maine writer.
Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Paul Graham

photo by Sarah Harlin
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Jonathon Green

n/a
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
David Halberstam

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Edith Hamilton

Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Robert Harris

David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Seamus Heaney

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

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)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Christopher Hitchens

James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Richard Holbrooke

US Federal Government
Jerry Holkins

Tycho (left) and Gabe (right) at Ubercon III, February 2004, by Lampbane
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace.,

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Caroline Kennedy

Pete Souza
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Jack Kerouac

George Kimball

Laura Vaccaro Seeger
ROSS KING

Heinrich von Kleist

Malcolm Knox

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Donald E. Knuth

David Monniaux
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Harold Lamb

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

Tanya Tribble
Stephen Leigh

William Wesen
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Phil Lesh

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Steven Levy

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Titus Lucretius Carus

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Thomas Mallon

Library of Congress
Leonard Maltin

David Maraniss

Greil Marcus

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

Robert Scoble
Paule Marshall

Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Robert S. McNamara

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Feb. 9, 1968, Cabinet meeting, White House
A. A. Milne

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

John Milton

V. M. Molotov

Stalin talks with Molotov at the Yalta Conference, February 1945
(Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum)
John Mortimer

Farley Mowat

Herta Müller

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Audie Murphy

Wikipedia
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Martha Craven Nussbaum

Robin Holland
George Orwell

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

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

Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Iain Pears

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Plutarch

Gary M. Pomerantz

Jerry Pournelle

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Thomas Pynchon

Eric S. Raymond

Photo credit: Russ Nelson , June 3, 2005
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Andrea Di Robilant

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
W. H. D. Rouse

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Walter M. Schirra

nasa.gov
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtMordecai Siegal

Photograph by Shel Secunda
Ed Sikov

Photo by David Shankbone, August 2007
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

James F. Simon

Photograph by Marcia Simon
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
José Carlos Somoza

Andrzej Barabasz
Sophocles

Richard M. Stallman

Chrys
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
I. F. Stone

Kzitelman
William Stout

photo by John Chadwick
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Terence

Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Laurence H. Tribe

Photo by Lilithcat
G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Sigrid Undset

Various

John Varley

Gore Vidal

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

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

svreeland.com
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Larry Wall

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Oscar Wilde

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

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

I took this photo!
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Bob Woodward

Leonard Woolley, Sir

World Almanac Publications

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

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

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Boris Yeltsin

Credit: White House Office photo, Oct. 23, 1995, New Hyde Park, NY
(Collection WJC-WHPO: Photographs of the
White House Photograph Office (Clinton Administration),
National Archives and Records Administration,
ARC identifier: 596517)
Dean Young

Pliny the Younger

Wolfgang Sauber
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
John Zorn

Andy Newcombe, 2006
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