arthegall's authors: 453 authors | 204 with pictures | 249 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Harold Abelson

Joi Ito
Ralph Abraham

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Alexander Alekhine

wiki
Stephen E. Ambrose

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson, flutist with 'Jethro Tull' / photo by Alfred Cermak / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHannah Arendt


W. H. Auden

St. Augustine

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Karl Barth


Samuel Beckett


Saul Bellow

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Edmund Burke

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

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

Caesar

public domain
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jose R. Capablanca

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-05488)
(cropped)
Rudolf Carnap

Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Catullus and Elmer Truesdell Merrill

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Arthur C. Clarke

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


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)
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Microsoft

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA

Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

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

John Donne

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

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

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Ralph Ellison

Max Euwe

Stanley J. Farlow

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
William Feller

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Bobby Fischer

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Dennis Hamilton
Gustave Flaubert

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

James Frazer

Gottlob Frege

I M Gelfand

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia

William Gibson

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan

Seamus Heaney

G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
David Hilbert

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown

Michel Houellebecq

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Elizabeth Inchbald

Wikimedia Commons
Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox
William James

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

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

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

Donald Kagan

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

Garry Kasparov

John Keats

Jack Kerouac

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Felix Klein

A. N. Kolmogorov

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Saul A. Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Milan Kundera


Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von


Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.

Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C. S. Lewis

Jonathan Littell

David Monniaux
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Christopher Logue

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Robert Lowell

Niccolo Machiavelli

N.Gregory Mankiw

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Derek Shapton
H.L. Mencken

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
John Stuart Mill

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

MDCarchives
John Milton

Richard von Mises

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

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

Vladimir Nabokov

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

MacTutor History of Mathematics (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Von_Neumann.html)
Richard E. Neustadt

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Robert Nozick

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jean Piaget

Plato

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

Kenneth M. Pollack

Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution

Karl R. Popper

Marcel Proust

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon


W.V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
J Rawls

Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Wikipedia
Juan Rulfo

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Mariam C. Said
Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jean-Paul Sartre

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Thomas C. Schelling

Photo by user Hessam Armandehi / Wikimedia Commons.
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Adam Smith

T. Smollett

from Wikipedia
F. (transl.) Sophocles; Storr


Edmund Spenser

Benedictus De Spinoza

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Anthony Swofford

John Burlinson, Feb. 22, 2008
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dylan Thomas

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
John Updike

Martha Updike
Virgil

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

Larry Wall


Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Rebecca West

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

Norbert Wiener

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
Richard Wilbur

William Carlos Williams

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP. G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
W. B Yeats

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

Roger Zelazny

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

Wikipédia France
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