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Paperback Pirate
Chris Abani

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
Mendele Mocher Seforim

from Wikipedia
Achebe. Chinua

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives

Aeschylus

Dr. Arthur Agatston

S.Y.(Nobel Prize Literature Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Fouad Ajami

Photograph by Anne Mandelbaum

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 1889-1966.

wikimedia commons
Sergei Aksakov

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

Leopoldo Alas

Unknown photographer
Edward Albee

albinoni

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), from Wikimedia Commons
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Translator Richard Aldington

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

Sherman Alexie

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
woody allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Dorothy Allison

Julia Alvarez

Jorge Amado

The Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Yehuda Amichai

Israel Post
martin amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Maxwell Anderson

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

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

Neruda50
William L. Andrews

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev

wikimedia commons
ivo andric

anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Mary Antin

Mary Antin & sister Fetchke as infant children. Project Gutenberg
Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Aharon Applefeld

Frederic Brenner
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Reinaldo Arenas


Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes


Aristotle

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

Louis Cdcolm 63527 Armstrong

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1953 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127236)
Elizabeth von Arnim

John Burlinson
matthew Arnold

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117675
Arrabal

Stoisto
High Museum of Art

March 2006, photo by Lee Coursey
Pellegrino Artusi

Sholem (trans. Meyer Levin ) Asch

John. Ashberry

Portrait by Juno Gemes.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Fred Astaire

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

Kate Atkinson

richard attenborough

Wikipedia
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer W.H. Auden

Jean M. Auel

Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tash Aw

mathieu bourgois
Alan Ayckbourn

copyright: Alan Ayckbourn
Marcel Aymé

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa

Isaac Babel

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

johann sebastian bach

Wikipedia.

Ingeborg Bachmann

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.
Enid Bagnold

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

Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
samuel barber

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Pat Barker

Melanie Barnard

Houghton Mifflin Publications
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Pio Translated By Anthony Kerrigan Baroja

Donald Barthelme

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


bela bartok

Bartok in 1927. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
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
Mario Batali

Credit: Charles Haynes, May 13, 2005
H. E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Georg Buchner

Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (7 September 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone de Beauvoir


Samuel Beckett

Joseph Bedier

www.academie-francaise.fr

ludwig von beethoven

Wikipedia.

Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Vincenzo Bellini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Andrey Biely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Tonino Benacquista

jacinto benavente

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Robert Benchley

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Benigni.jpg?uselang=it

Walter Benjamin

Arnold Bennett

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

Rose Levy Beranbaum

Ingmar Bergman

irving berlin

1948 photograph (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-37541)
Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Georges Bernanos

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

Thomas Bernhard

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
C.N. Bialik

Ambrose Bierce

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

Loyola University New Orleans
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Andreˆi Bitov

Dmitry Rozhkov

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Georges Bizet

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

Thomas Phillips
Marlena De Blasi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Alexander Blok

Giovanni Bocaccio

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Kyril Bonfiglioli

Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
John W. Boyer

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Kay Boyle

Malcolm Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Johannes Brahms

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Kate Braverman

Photo by Chris Felver

Bertold Brecht

André Breton

Robert Bridges

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lea Brilmayer

Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Benjamin Britten


Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Jane E. Brody

MDCarchives
Anne Bronte

Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Christine Brooke-Rose

Carcanet Press

Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

mel brooks

Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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
Ken Bruen

Martin Buber

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Bullfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burkhardt

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

Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stanley Burnshaw

Translated by Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Antonia S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Vasil Bykov

Bykau.com
George Gordon; Lord Byron

Abraham Cahan

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1937 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119095)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Ada Cambridge

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Fritjof Capra

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)

John le Carre

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Baldassare 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)
Bruce Catton

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
C.P. Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Camilo Jose cela

ÁWá

Paul Celan

Bennett A. (Editor) Cerf

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Rosa Chacel

Porquenopuedo
ray charles


Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Mary Boykin Chestnut

Fromm Wikipedia
Charles W. Chesnutt

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

Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
fredric chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

churchill. winston spenser

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Bernard Clayton Jr.

Photograph by Jerry Mitchell
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)

J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

I. Compton-Burnett


william congreve

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Artemis Cooper

Robert Coover

Frederick Copleston

archangelo corelli

Corneille

Wikipédia France
Julio; Rabassa Cortazar, Gregory (translator)

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Noel Coward

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

A. J. Cronin

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

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Jennifer Crusie

Photo by Jennifer Maler

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
richard curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Gabriele D'Annunzio

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

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Edwidge. Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Eleanor Dark

Charles Darwin

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

Wikipédia France
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marcia Davenport

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

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Annabel Davis-Goff

Photo by Sara Barrett

Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Peter Davison

Dorothy Day

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
John William De Forest

E. M. Delafield

Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Catherine Delors

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Robb Forman Dew

Howie Levitz
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey


Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot; Jean D'Almbert

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.
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Chita Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Austin Dobson

Image from Collected poems (1897) by Austin Dobson
Heimito Von Doderer

Anthony Doerr

Ivan Doig

Rosina Lippi

Nurmi Husa
Gaetano Donizetti

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
J. P. Donleavy

John Donne

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

Eye on Books
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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

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

Andrew Dornenburg

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
John Dryden

Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
William R Duggan

Elaine Dundy

Fuchsia Dunlop

Tang Yuewu
Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Will Durant

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Antonín Dvořák

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
clint eastwood

Credit: Martin Kraft, 2007, Berlinale
Isabelle Eberhardt

Wikimedia Commons
Umberto Eco

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

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

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)
Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573

George Eliot

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

T. S. Eliot

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Alice Thomas Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Victor Erofeyev

www.everyfoto.com
Auguste Escoffier

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Euripedes.

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

flickr user sogroovynow

Bill Evans

Robert Drózd, 2004-07-24
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Frantz Fanon

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Leon-Paul Fargue

James T. Farrell

Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Gabriel Faure

Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré (1845 –1924) by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (The Paris Museum of Music). (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
federico fellini

Matt Derry
Ernest F. Fenollosa

Niall Ferguson

Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Susan Ferrier

R. Thorburn
Katie Fforde

http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/264
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Friedrich von Flotow

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Theodore Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
horton foote

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

MDCarchives
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
C.S. Forester

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


E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

France

French Flag in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. Photo by user michelarc / Flickr.
Anatole France

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Miles Franklin

Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Charles Frazier

Lynn Freed

Jonathan Freedman

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Saul Friedlander

Saul Friedlander
kinky friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Brian Friel

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

Max Frisch

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

Robert Frost

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

Jennifer Barbian
Christopher Fry

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Benito Perez Galdos

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jane Gardam

Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega Y Gassett


William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Charles de Gaulle

Official photograph of de Gaulle, by Jean-Marie Marcel.
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Arthur Gelb

Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Jean Genet

george gershwin

Carl Van Vechten (1937)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Andre Gide

1893
John Gielgud

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
dizzy gillespie

Tom Marcello, 1977
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
George Gissing

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

carl.army.mil
Ellen Glasgow

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Gluckel

Bertha Pappenheim as Glikl bas Judah Leib (Glückel von Hameln)
Gail Godwin

William Godwin

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

Wikipédia France
Irving Stone, Editor [Vincent & Theo Van Gogh]

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

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Francisco Goldman

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Carlo Goldoni

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Olivia Goldsmith


Joyce Esersky Goldstein

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
Yvan Goll

Plaque by Marc Chagall on the tomb of Yvan and Claire Goll. Photo by Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons.
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Nadine Gordimer

Caroline Gordon

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs LC-USZ62-117759)
Maxim Gorky

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)

Glenn Gould

Walter Curtin (Toronto, 1974)
Charles Gounod

From "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians" by Rupert Hughes
Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Baltasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Gunther Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Thomas; Starr Gray, H. W., Hendrikson, J. R. (eds.)

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


Graham Greene

Henry Green

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Lady Gregory

From Wikimedia Commons
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Grigson

Hans Jakob Christoph Von Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Olga Grushin

Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
knut hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien

george frederic handel

Wikipedia Commons.
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
w.c. handy

1917 sheet music (courtesy of the
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Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jessica B. Harris

Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
Joanne Harris

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Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Marsden Hartley

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

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
John Hawkes

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Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Haydn

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Eliza Haywood

Giuliano Hazan

Andrea Hillebrand, photographer
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Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Shirley Hazzard

SEAMUS HEANEY

George Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
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Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Martin Heidegger

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Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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Mark Helprin

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Aleksandar Hemon

Amy Hempel

Bill Henderson

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Beth Henley

Beth Henley with Ron Rash
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Ron HoganO. Henry

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Heraclitus

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

Zbigniew Herbert

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Manu Herbstein

Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
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Robert Herrick

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Hesiod-theogony and works and days

Hermann Hesse

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Elizabeth Hickey

Photograph by Jonathan Selwood
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Edward Hirsch

Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
David Hockney

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

James Hogg

Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
billie holliday

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116612 DLC
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
John Lee Hooker

Masahiro Sumori

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Karen Horney

1938 photograph (Wikipedia Commons)
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
a.e. housman

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Victor Hugo

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Agnes Humbert

drawing of Agnès Humbert by Wikipedia user P0mbal

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

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Blasco Vicente Ibanez

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-29028
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Eugene Ionesco

John Irving

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Walter Isaacson

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Christopher Isherwood

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky

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Ian Jack

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Lisa Levert
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Leoš Janáček

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Randall Jarrell

Alfred Jarry

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Robinson Jeffers

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Elfriede Jelinek

Gish Jen

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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Charles Richard Johnson

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Diane Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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

Uwe Johnson (center). (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P057015)
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Judith Jones

Christopher Hirsheimer
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

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Neil Jordan

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Franz Kafka

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Mollie Katzen

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James Kavallines. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16773
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Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats

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Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Helen Keller

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Thomas Keller

Brett Wilson
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Margaret Kennedy

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Hugh Kenner

Frank Kermode (Editor).

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Jack Kerouac

John Maynard Keynes

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Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
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Maxine Hong Kingston

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Danilo Kis

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Paul Klee

Heinrich von Kleist

Gustav Klimt

Wayne Koestenbaum

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
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Manuel Komroff, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jerzy Kosinski

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Louis Kronenberger

Milan Kundera

Madame de Lafayette

Jules Laforgue

Portrait of Laforgue by Franz Skarbina (1885)
Emeril Lagasse

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Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse signs his cookbooks and interacts with fans during a book signing at the Fort Lewis, Washington.
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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D. H. Lawrence

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nigella lawson

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Halldor Laxness

David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Harper Lee

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

Robert Scoble
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Siegfried Lenz

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Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Theatrical poster, 1906
(Theatrical Poster Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division)
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
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Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Alain Rene Le Sage

Nikolai Leskov

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Doris Lessing

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Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Amy Levy

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
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Marina Lewycka

Vachel Lindsay

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Jacques; Werner Lipschitz, Alfred (essay)

Amadeo Modigliani. 1917
Elinor Lipman

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
David Liss

Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives

John, Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

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Federico Garcia Lorca

Brett Lott

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Robert Lowell

Beverly Lowry

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Titus Lucretius Carus

Robert Ludlum

Arnost Lustig

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John Burlinson
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Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Thomas Mann

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Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

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Howard Margolis

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Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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Harriet Martineau

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Andrew--Kermode Marvell, Frank (Editor)

Engraving published in 1681.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Bobbie Ann Mason

Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Jules Massenet

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Harry Mathews

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Daphne DuMaurier

Andre Maurois, 1885-1967.

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
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James McBride

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Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Stephen McCauley

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McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Terry Mcmillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Margaret Mead

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

Virginia Mecklinburg and Laura Bush tour the exhibit “Earl Cunningham’s America." White House photo by Shealah Craighead.
Mameve Medwed

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James Meek

Christopher Meeks

photo by Daniel Will-Harris
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Rigoberta Menchu

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Daniel Mendelsohn

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of 30 in London. Watercolor painting by James Warren Childe, 1839. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Gian Carlo Menotti

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Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
giacomo meyerbeer

Wikimedia Commons
Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
Anne Michaels

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Arthur Miller

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Henry Miller

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

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Kate Millett


John Stuart Mill

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

Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
charles mingus

Tom Marcello, July 4, 1976
Rohinton Mistry

Margaret Mitchell Marsh

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Vilhelm Moberg

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J.R. Moehringer

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Moliere

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N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress

Thelonious Monk

Mike Love
Michel de (1533-1592) Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles de Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
claudio monteverdi

from Wikipedia
Carlos Montoya

Photo by Walter Albertin: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-115388)
Rick Moody

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
michael moore

Wikimedia Commons
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

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

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
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Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Moses

Statue by Leonardo Sormani and Prospero Antichi,
Acqua Felice fountain, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Grandma; Kallir Moses, Otto (editor)

World-Telegram photo by Roger Higgins, 1953 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-115888)
walter mosely

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

wolfgang amadeus mozart

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Lisel Mueller

Columbia University
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Harry Mulisch

Herta Müller

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

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Robert Musil

Alfred (Translated By Peter Meyer) De Musset

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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Sena Jeter Naslund

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Joan Nathan

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Pablo Neruda

John Henry Cardinal Newman

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
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Frank Norris

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Robert Nozick

Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Flann O'Brien

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Tim O'Brien

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Kenzaburo Oe

Nuala O'Faolain

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Frank O'Hara

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John O'Hara

Yuri Olesha

From Wikipedia
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Mrs. Oliphant
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Linda Olsson

Suz
Michael Ondaatje

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Eliza Orzeszkowa

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Alexander Ostrovosky

Wassilij Grigorjewitsch Perow (d. 1882)
Ovid

Amos Oz

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

Credit: Alexander Smotrov, Oct. 21, 2005, London Film Festival
Ann Packer

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas Paine

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Charles "Bird" Parker, Jr. (1920-1955)
Dorothy Parker

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John Dos Passos

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ALAN PATON

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Konstantin. Paustovsky

John Burlinson
Octavio Paz

Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
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Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Art Pepper

Nathan Callahan, July 18, 1979
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Walker Percy

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Fernando Pessoa

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman

Pablo Picasso

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Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

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Luigi Pirandello

Philippa Carr

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Plato

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Plutarch

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
cole porter

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-122087
Katherine Anne Porter

Jan Potocki

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Chaim Potok

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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

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Dawn Powell

Julie Powell

unknown
Rosa Praed

Autographed portrait by Disderi, c1870-90 (Library of Congress)
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
J. B. Priestley

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Francine Prose

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
marcel proust

Giacomo Puccini

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Henry Purcell

William Nelson Gardiner / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Eca De Queiroz

francisco de quevedo

Painting, copy of a lost work by Velazquez
Anna Quindlen

Serge Rachmaninoff

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
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(cropped)
Jean Racine

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Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Jacques André Joseph Aved, 1728. From
WikipediaChristoph Ransmayr

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
Irina Ratushinskaya

Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
Maurice Ravel

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC

John Rawls

Satyajit Ray

Rishiraj Sahoo
Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
Public Domain
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

Self-portrait, 1633,
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David Remnick

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Kenneth Rexroth

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Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
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Samuel Richardson


terry riley

Jon Hurd, December 12, 2004
Rainer Maria Rilke


Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
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Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
richard rodgers

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

Borja Vilallonga (1997).
Theodore Roethke


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Hans Reitzema, November 28, 2007
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Francesco Hayez, 1870

Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
j.k. rowling

Arundhati Roy

Margaret Rudkin

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Bertrand Russell

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Umberto Saba

Chiara Marra, August 17, 2007
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victoria (vita) sackville-west

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Camille Saint-Saëns

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandberg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
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