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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Federal Aviation Administration

faa.gov
Aeschylus

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Sherwood Anderson

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

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

Stoisto
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Lester Bangs

Donald Barthelme

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

Beck

Samuel Beckett

Andrei Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Heinrich Boll

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

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Paul BOWLES

Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Max Brod

Wikipedia
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton

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

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Lewis Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Camilo Jose Cela Conde

ÁWá
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur Charles Clarke

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

David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Hugleikur Dagsson

Anneli Salo
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Robertson Davies

Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
Daniel Odier

Daniel Odier
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E. L. Doctorow

David Dolan

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.)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

Will Durant

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
M. Barnard Eldershaw

Ralph Ellison

Brian Eno

Bungopolis, June 26, 2006
José de Espronceda

Euripides

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Felix Feneon

Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (in front of an enamel of a rhythmic background of measures and angles, shades and colors), 1890
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Alec Foege

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Henry Ford

Photo circa 1919
(National Photo Company Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Collection,
LC-USZ62-111278)
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
C. S. Forester

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

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Jonathan Franzen

Max Frisch

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

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Jean Genet

William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Goncharov

Otis L. Graham

Otis Graham website
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
H. R. Haldeman

Photo by Oliver F. Atkins, White House Photographer (Wikimedia Commons)
Alexander Hamilton

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

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)
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Adolf Hitler

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A. M. Homes

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
L. Ron Hubbard

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Herbert E. Huncke

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Samuel Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Eugene; Allen Ionesco, Donald M. (trans)

Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Uzodinma Iweala

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Elfriede Jelinek

Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke (right) at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008. Photo by Manfred Werner / Wikimedia Commons.
James Joyce

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

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

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Janet Kauffman

Eastern Michigan University
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Jack Kerouac

Daniil Kharms

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Dean Koontz

Jerzy Kosinski

Milan Kundera

Pär Lagerkvist

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Wyndham Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Rush Limbaugh

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Federico García Lorca

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Robert Ludlum

John Lydon

Niccolo Machiavelli

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

REGINALD MARTIN

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Derek Shapton
Carson Mccullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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)
Steven Millhauser

John Stuart Mill

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Thurston Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Farnoosh Moshiri

Herta Müller

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil


Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Arto Paasilinna

Matti Järvinen
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marian Pankowski

Nagroda literacka gdynia
Richard North Patterson

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Anthony Quinn

Credit: Alan Light, 1988 Emmy Awards
Wilhelm Raabe

Francois Rabelais

Ayn Rand

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

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

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Robbins

Will Rogers

Poster created by the WPA Oklahoma Art Project, 1941
(Work Projects Administration Poster Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC2-3736)
Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Stuart J. Russell

No credit given
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Shchedrin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
B.F. Skinner

PsychArt
Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Stoppard Tom

photo credit: ITV Granada
Charles Stross

Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Mel Torme

Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Cropped ~ Wikipedia & Flickr)
Dalton Trumbo

Amos Tutuola

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Dubravka Ugresic

Wikimedia Commons
Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Lope de Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Paul Verhaeghen

Li-Hua Lan
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Gore Vidal

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

John F. Walvoord

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
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Edmund White

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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