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ANON

D'Arcy Norman
Abdu'l-Baha

C. Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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

Tom Marcello, 1976
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Arthur Agatston

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kurt Anderson

Brigitte Lacombe
Bonnie S. Anderson

James Anderson

James Anderson (1739-1808) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSherwood Anderson

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

Lynn V. Andrews

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Aristophanes

Aristotle; Translated By Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher; Introduction Kallen

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Alan Atkinson

University of New England
Sir David Attenborough

Shojo
Pilkington Augustine, J G [transl.] St.

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Richard Avedon

Photo by Herb Jordan (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
A.J. Ayer

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.
W. Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Baha'u'llah

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
World Bank

Photo by user Shiny Things / Flickr.
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
David P. Barash

Alessandro Barbero

Bartholomew

Mary-Margaret Moore (Bartholomew) ~ Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Barton

© WallBuilders
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
Susan Bassnett-McGuire

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
Robert Bateman

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Derrick Bell

Walden Bello

Hy Bender

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Berkeley

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
John Boccaccio

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

Edward De Bono

Grady Booch

Michael Cote
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Majorie Boulton

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
Malcolm Bradbury

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Bradford Enterprises
Willy Brandt

© AdsD der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Richard Branson

Photo created by NASA (cropped)
Fernand Braudel

Jeremy Brecher

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

By R. Feist
Ian Brodie

Charlotte Brontë

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

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert; Selected Browning, Edited and Introduced By C. Day Lewis

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

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Peter Henry Buck

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Reference number: 1/2-037931-F
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Edmund Burke

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

DC Animation panel, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Richard F. Burton

Samuel Butler

Helen Caldicott

Photo by user SayCheeeeeese / Wikimedia Commons.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tony Campolo

Wikipedia
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Fritjof Capra

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John le Carre

Lewis: TENNIEL CARROLL, John [Iillustrator]

Kit Carson

Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce in October 1910, when this photograph appeared on the front page of The New York Times.
BENVENUTO CELLINI

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Sarvodaya.org
Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Carol Clewlow

(AP Watt)
John Cobb

Silversoul7
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Paulo Coelho

Alan Cohen

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole at Ambassador Baptist Christian School, Washington D.C., 2007. Detail from White House photo by David Bohrer.
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Barry Commoner

Liz Baylen
Micheal Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
S.J. Connolly

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Michael Cook

Prof. Michael Cook (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Copernicus

Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)
Aaron Copeland

Wikipedia Commons.
Copleston

Patricia D. Cornwell

Catherine Coulter

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
David Crystal

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nicholas Gent Culpeper

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

Dirk Cussler

Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
David Damrosch

Charles Darwin

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

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Peter Davis

Richard Dawkins

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

DICKENS CHARLES

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Dilts

Uploaded to Flickr on November 24, 2005 by Cantabrigensis
Stephen Donaldson

John Donne

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

Charles Van Doren

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
F M Dostoevskii

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Joan Druett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Duckworth

Photographer unknown
Alexandre Dumas

Michael Dummett

Klaus Reisinger
Will Durant

Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

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

Courtesy of Hope Edelman
Joseph Von Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Albert Einstein

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

ALBERT ELLIS

Wikipedia (courtesy of the Albert Ellis Institute)
Havelock Ellis

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

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

flickr user sogroovynow
Dana Facaros

Paul K. Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry; Introduction By Louis Kronenberger Fielding

wikipedia
John Fiske

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

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Debbie Ford

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Frederick Forsyth

Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Foucault Michel

Dick Francis

Benjamin; Introduction By Carl Van Doren Franklin

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

Karl Emil Franzos

ANTONIA FRASER

Susan Greenhill
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Jean Froissart

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

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Gertrud Fussenegger

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Gabriel Gate

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Paul Gauguin

from Wikipedia
Uri Geller

Credit: Aquarius2000 (Wikipedia user), 2005
Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
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)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Johann Wolfgang Von ; Alice Raphael Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Al Gore

Wikipedia
CHARLES GORE

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

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

Ed Fitzgerald
Alan Grant

User:Vizjim
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Graham Greene

John Richard Green

Val D. Greenwood

I took it myself and own all rights.
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey - Founder, Tagman Press
Sir George Grey

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

Jacob; Grimm Grimm, Wilhelm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Michael Grinder

Uploaded to Flickr by Cantabrigensis 21 Nov 2006
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Guy

Author's website
Amanda Hampson

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Keith D. Harrell

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
John Harvey-Jones

Multiple Sclerosis Trust
Sir Paul Harvey

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)
Paul Hawken

STEPHEN HAWKING

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Louise L. Hay

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Friedrich Heer

Martin Heidegger

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
O Henry

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

© Pan Macmillan
Hesiod

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)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Jack Higgins

Sir Edmund Hillary

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, June 17, 2004
HILL CHRISTOPHER -

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
E.D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Christopher Hitchens

Thomas (Oakeshott Hobbes, Michael)

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

Ferdinand von Hochstetter

D. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Ben Hogan

Photo by Dick DeMarsico: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-115559)
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
L.RON HUBBARD

Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
James Gibbons Huneker

Douglas Hurd

Steve Punter
Robert Maynard Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaThomas Henry Huxley

"Professor Huxley. F.R.S."
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
INTL

American Express building at 65 Broadway, New York, May 2006; photo by
Shiny ThingsWashington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Burl Ives

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 10, 1955 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-103670)
Lisa Jackson

© 2002-2006 Lisa Jackson
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
P D James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksPeter James

Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
J.A. Jance

Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jerome K. Jerome

Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Jean de Joinville

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Terry Jones

Tim Jones

Photo: Sonali Mukherji
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Scott Joplin

[Portrait of Scott Joplin], taken from
American Musician (June 17, 1907). Performing Arts Reading Room, Library of Congress.
(
memory.loc.gov)
Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
Benjamin (Trans.) Jowett

Alfred Gudeman
James Joyce

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

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

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

Nicholas J. Karolides

University of Wisconsin-River Falls Faculty Page
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Paul M. Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Joseph Kerman

Graham Kerr

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Rudyard Kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dean Koontz

Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Amanda Quick

Paul R. Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
Tim F. LaHaye

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William L. Langer

Harvard Square Library
Antoine L Lavoisier

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Henry Lawson

William Johnson (d. 1921)
Harper Lee

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

William Mosgrove
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

David Lewis

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.)
Harve Spencer Lewis

Burial marker
Library of Congress

Library of Congress Reading Room, Jefferson Building (photo by Mark Pellegrini)
Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Christopher Logue

Jack; Introduction By Edmund Gilligan London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Samuel Lover

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

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
James Russell Lowell

Photo while Minister to the United Kingdom, 1880-1885
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
LUCRETIUS

Robert Ludlum

Georg Lukacs

Eric Van Lustbader

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

Niccolo' Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Shirley Maclaine

M. Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Adeline Yen Mah

Mailer Norman

Carl Van Vechten
F. W. Maitland

T.R. Malthus

Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Phillip Margolin

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Marshall

George Perkins Marsh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpbh-02223)
(cropped)
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Carl Marx

from Wikipedia
Mattel

Jack-in-the-Box lid, circa 1970, photo by Alice and Matt (Flickr user
welovethedark)
Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews
www.andrewmatthews.com
W Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy De Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum

McCullough Colleen

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Canada. Patent and Copyright Office / Bureau des brevets et du droit d'auteur; Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada; nlc-54336
Phillip C. McGraw

Sean Mcmullen

Rand McNally

Margaret Mead

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

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

Merton. Thomas

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

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
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

Francois Mitterand

U.S. federal government
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Lucy Montgomery

wikipedia
ALAN MOOREHEAD

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienThomas More

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

Blake Morgan
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Irmtraud Morgner

Irmtraud Morgner (right). Photo by Katscherowski. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1116-0010)
Jan Morris

Daniel P. Moynihan

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Eduard Morike

Wikimedia Commons
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Jill Murphy

Michael Murphy

Caroline M. Myss

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Nesbit. E.

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich W Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Frederick O'Brien

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Edward A. Salisbury Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-70219)
(cropped)
Gerald O'Collins

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susie Orbach

George Orwell

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

wikipedia.pl
R.J. Overy

Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
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
Charles Panati

Mungo Park

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
A.B. Patterson

Wikimedia Commons
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Patten

Kaihsu Tai
James Patterson

M.Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Jaroslav Pelikan

Roger; Gardner Penrose, Martin (Foreword by)

Jerry Bauer
Anne Perry

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Thomas J. Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Prince Philip

Steve Punter
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Susan Piver

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederick Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Polanyi

Clive Ponting

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Roy. Porter

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Michael Pye

Paul Raeburn

Courtesy of Paul Raeburn
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Julian Rathbone

John Rawls

Piers Paul Read

James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Christopher Reich

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

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Samuel Richardson

Jeremy Rifkin

Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Peter Robinson

Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodger (at piano) with Lorenz Hart, 1936, World Telegram photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-122089)
Eleanor Roosevelt

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