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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Theodor Adorno

Edward Albee

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Hannah Arendt

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W.H. Auden

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Balzac

Wikipédia France
Roland Barthes

Stephen Batchelor

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Walter Benjamin

Bernard Berenson

Henri Bergson

Wendell Berry

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Michelle P. Brown

Patricia Fortini Brown

by Joan Pantsios, at
Flickr.com. Fortini Brown is in the center.
Martin Buber

Thomas Bulfinch

Jacob Burckhardt

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

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Eddie Campbell

Picture by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Willa Cather

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

Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Kate Chopin

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)
Le Corbusier

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
E. E. Cummings

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

© Imogen Cunningham Trust
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

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

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Senate Portrait)
Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
T. S. Elliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Leslie Feinberg

Gustave Flaubert

Michel Foucault

Viktor E. Frankl

Cynthia Freeland

Courtesy of the author.
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Robert Frost

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
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

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

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

William Goldman

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

E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Remy De Gourmont

Les amateurs de Rémy de Gourmont
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Brothers Grimm

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.)
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Gary Groth

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

David Huddle

Photo by Chip Riegel
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Shirley Jackson

Maxim Jakubowski

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

James Joyce

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

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
John Keats

Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ross King

Caroline Knapp

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Harper Lee

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

Karl Cardinal Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz (Credit: Th1979 (Wikipedia user), Sept. 11, 2006, Altötting, Germany)
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
Primo Levi

C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Shirley MacLaine

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Mary Ellen Mark

Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Guy Du MAUPASSANT

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Arthur Miller

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

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Margaret Mitchell

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)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill Moyers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Robin Holland
Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Oriah

George Orwell

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

Misa Martin
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Christiane Paul

Christiane Paul at Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Fernando Pessoa

Henry Petroski

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Elizabeth Prioleau

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Helena Reckitt

Samuel Richardson

Gerhard Richter

Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer, 2005, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ranier Maria Rilke

Tom Robbins

J.K. Rowling

Miguel De Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. de Saint Exupery

Carl Sandburg

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

Periodista digital.com
Sark

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

W G Sebald

Art by Zero
Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Scott Shaw

Scott Shaw! (illustrator). Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
David K. Shipler

© 2003 Claudio Vasquez
Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Shel Silverstein

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Betty Smith

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

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
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)
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Alfred Stieglitz

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 17, 1935 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-103681)
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
John Szarkowski

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Lynne Tillman

David Shankbone, September 2007
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
P. L. Travers

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

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

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Booker T. Washington

1911 photograph (cropped)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Simone Weil

Peter Weiss

Photograph by Dietbert Keßler (1982)
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Saul Williams

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
William Carlos Williams

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMary Wollstonecraft

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Louis Zukofsky

Photo of Zukofsky alone, by Elsa Dorfman
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