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Mumia Abu-Jamal

http://mumia.de/
Theodor W. Adorno

Aeschylus

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Louis Althusser

Kingsley Amis

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

Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

©Rowena
W. H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

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.
Karl Baedeker

M.M. Bakhtin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
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
Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Paul Beatty

www.dentontaylor.com
Brooklyn Lit Festival 2008
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Brendan Behan

Walden Bello

SAUL BELLOW

Walter Benjamin

Alexander Berkman

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00769)
Thomas Bernhard

Haim Nahman Bialik

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Jane Bowles

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

Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Robert Bresson

The Film Reference Library Toronto
Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dee Brown

Browne Thomas

Pearl S Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Jacob Burckhardt

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

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

Jreberlein
Lord Byron

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
James P. Cannon

James P. Cannon in Moscow in 1922
Ernesto Cardenal

photo by Linda Lambert
Thomas Carlyle

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

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Paul Celan

Anton Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Noam Chomsky

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

from Wikipedia
E. M. Cioran

William Cobbett

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

from Wikipedia
Museum Ludwig Cologne

South Entrance, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Photo by user Raymond / Wikimedia Commons.
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Richard Henry Dana

Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Angela Y. Davis

Mike Davis

Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Guy Debord

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don Delillo

Ronald V. Dellums

Oil on canvas, Andre White, 1997, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives.
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
J.M. Dillard

Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Heinito Von Doderer

Hilda Doolittle

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
Brandon Downing

Photo by Jordan Davis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Will Durant

Albrecht Durer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Elbert Hubbard

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
George Eliot

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

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Euripides

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

Gustave Flaubert

Michel Foucault

Anatole France

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

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

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

Credit: Kentin (Wikipedia user), 2005
John J. Fux

From Wikimedia Commons
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Rick Geary

Jean Genet

J. Paul. Getty

Bust of J. Paul Getty, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California. Photo by Beatrice Murch / Flickr.
Andre Gide

1893
Jean-Luc Godard

James Stencilowsky
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Ursula K. Le Guin

Francois Pierre Guillaume. Guizot

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

Edith Hamilton

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Patricia Campbell Hearst

Federal Bureau of Investigation
G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Eric Hobsbawm

E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Ingrid Hsieh-Yee

The author (2007).
Henrik Ibsen

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

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Leroi Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
George F. Kennan

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

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

Wikipedia
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Carole Kismaric

Karl Kraus

Peter Kropotkin

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

Sylvia Plachy
The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
George Lamming

George Lamming, 1955. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-114409)
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Comte de Lautréamont

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

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

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
V. I. Lenin

Paul Leppin

Paul Leppin ca. 1905
Nikolai Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold E. Lessing

Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Philip Levine

Frances Levine
C.S. Lewis

Jean Lorrah

no credit given
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Robert Lowell

György Lukács

Rosa Luxemburg

From Wikimedia Commons
A. T. Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Nestor Makhno

wikipedia
Nelson Mandela

Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995)
(Marxists Internet Archive)
Thomas Mann

Mao Tse-Tung

from Wikipedia
Subcomandante Marcos

Yuriria Pantoja Millan
Herbert Marcuse

Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Marshall McLuhan

Rand McNally

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Thomas Merton

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

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

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Michel Eyquem Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Iris Murdoch

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

V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Soseki Natsume

Pablo Neruda

Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Anais Nin

Kenzaburo Oe

Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Eugene O'Neill

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

Octavio Paz

Fernando Pessoa

Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Luigi Pirandello

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Jacques Rabelais and Le Clercq

Alexander Rabinowitch

Courtesy of Indiana University
Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau, by Jacques André Joseph Aved, 1728. From
WikipediaJacques Rancière

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Kenneth Rexroth

Paul Ricoeur

Rainer Maria Rilke

Theodore Roethke

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marquis De Sade ; Richard Seaver --trans; Austryn Wainhouse --trans ; --Intro

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Arthur M. (Arthur Meier) (1917-2007) Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Arnold Schonberg

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Michael Sells

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkVictor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Viktor Shklovsky

http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/129/sarnov.htm
Georg Simmel

Edgar Snow

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

1990s
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
University of Chicago

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Stalin J.V.

Credit: Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-USW33-019081-C)
GERTRUDE STEIN

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marie-Henri (de Stendhal) Beyle

Johan Olaf Sodemark
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Emanuel Swedenborg

from Wikipedia
Joseph Szigeti

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Frederick Taylor

Paul Theroux

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

Dylan Thomas

E. P. Thompson

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Tomas Transtromer

Andrei Romanenko
Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sunzi

Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
Paul Valery

various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Jose Garcia Villa

New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Albertin, Walter, photographer.
Virgil

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

Francis J. Weber

Max Weber

Eudora Welty

Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
William Carlos Williams

Edmund Wilson

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

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienThomas (R.A. Rebholz Wyatt, ed.)

Sir Thomas Wyatt, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
Tsao Hsueh-Chin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
W. B. Yeats

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

John Burlinson
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Yuan F. Zhen

David Schroeter, February 15, 2007
Chuang; Lao Tzu; James Legge (translation) Tzu

www.iep.utm.edu
Zhao Ziyang

Zhao Ziyang with President Reagan at the White House, 1984. (Reagan Presidential Library)
Louis Zukofsky

Photo of Zukofsky alone, by Elsa Dorfman
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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