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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
James Agate

James Agate, British writer and critic (9 February 1938) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames Agee

Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Fournier-Alain

Wikipédia France
Edward Albee

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Photo by U.S. Army Staff SGT. Angelique Perez
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Kingsley Amis

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

National Park Service
Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Sir Edwin Arnold

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
Jake Arnott

www.chrismsaunders.com
Daisy Ashford

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-30073
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
W. H. Auden

Alfred J. Ayer

Lauren Bacall

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

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Andre Balazs

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Lester Bangs

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

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
Vicki Baum

Theodore --Editor; Beardsley Menten, Aubrey

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Gertrude Bell

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-08277)
(cropped)
Quentin Bell

Walter Benjamin

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Gwenda Blair

Photograph by Matthew W. Stolper
Victor Bockris

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Edwin Booth

Mathew B. Brady
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
T. Coraghesan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Barbara Branden

David Harmon
Richard Brautigan

Raymond Briggs

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Louise Brooks

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

Robert Cowen
Thomas Bulfinch

Anthony Burgess

Edward Burne-Jones

Self-portrait by Edward Burne-Jones
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

Helen Caldicott

Photo by user SayCheeeeeese / Wikimedia Commons.
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

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

TRUMAN CAPOTE

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

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

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

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Bennett Cerf

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
HRH Prince Charles

White House Photo by Paul Morse (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Denise Chong

Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Agatha Christie

Winston S. Churchill

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

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
William Cobbett

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

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

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Nik Cohn

Ken Nahoum
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Duff. Cooper

Marie Corelli

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
A.J. Cronin

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

Andrew Cooper
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Rosie Daley

Marion Davies

Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Portrait by Hamilton King for the
June 1920 cover of "Theatre Magazine"
(Randy Bryan Bigham Collection)
Alan M. Dershowitz

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Ernest Dimnet

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-36336)
(cropped)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Will Durant

Bob Dylan

Arthur Edwards

Photo by Raquel Edwards
Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Marianne Faithfull

Just_guy, 2007
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
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)
Jane Fonda

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox with wife Tracy Pollen,
1988, 40th Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
Stephen Fox

Jerry Bauer
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James Frey

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
FRY CHRISTOPHER

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Earl Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Shakti Gawain

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Martha Gellhorn

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

Andre Gide

1893
Brendan Gill

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

Joyce Ravid
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Todd Gitlin

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Elinor Glyn

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

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Eve Golden

Mel Neuhaus
William Goldman

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

Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Martha Graham

Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, 1961
(Credit: Carl Van Vechten)
(Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-116601)
Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway in her studio, 1895
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Peggy Guggenheim

Ursula K. Le Guin

David Halberstam

H. R. Haldeman

Photo by Oliver F. Atkins, White House Photographer (Wikimedia Commons)
Richard Halliburton

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dag Hammarskjöld

UN/DPI
Patricia Hampl

John Burlinson, Nov. 9, 2007
Heinrich Harrer

Frank Harris

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

Goldie Hawn

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1989
Louise L. Hay

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Lillian Hellman

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

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

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Herman Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Eric Hobsbawm

Anthony Holden

Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
HEDDA HOPPER

George Grantham Bain Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35432
POLLY HORVATH

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
W.H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Lee Iacocca

Gary Indiana

Jane Jacobs

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Byron Katie

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
John Keats

Brigid Keenan

Carolyn G. Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Agnes Newton Keith

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

Library of Congress
John F Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy F, Intro. John

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Jack Kerouac

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Henry Kissinger

William Kittredge

Raymond Meeks
Caroline Knapp

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
A Kollontai

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-25077)
Milan Kundera

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Stephen Leacock

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

wikimedia commons
Fran Lebowitz

Credit: Christopher Peterson, 2007
John Lennon

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sinclair Lewis

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

John Burlinson
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Logan Joshua

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

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

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

Chris Mosio
Robert Lowell

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Shirley Maclaine

Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Deborah Madison

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Moses Maimonides

Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Howard Marks

Ngaio Marsh

Raymond Massey

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, March 3, 1953, in "John Brown's Body" (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52378)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
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
Paul McCartney

McCartney in February 1964, arriving in the US to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Nellie L. McClung

Cyril Jessup (Gladstone, Manitoba, Canada, ca. 1905-1922)
Robert McCrum

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Herbert Marshall McLuhan

H.L. Mencken

Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Diane Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
John Miller

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
Mark Crispin Miller

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Kate Millett

A. A. Milne

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

BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Wikipédia France
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Rick Moody

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Lucy Moore

Mary Tyler Moore

Moore with House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Children's Congress delegates from Illinois
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Alphonse Mucha

Photo by: Geo. K. Lawrence Co., Chicago. 1906.
Paul Muldoon

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Caroline Myss

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

Ingrid Newkirk

Geoff Nicholson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Philip Norman

Jessica Norman
Edna Obrien

Kenneth P. O'Donnell

Photograph by Abbie Rowe, National Park Service: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Misa Martin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Barry Paris

Photo By Thomas Gladysz (Wikipedia)
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Samuel Pepys

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

by Baxter Knowlton
Ann Petry

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

Richard Rosenthal
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

MDCarchives
Plutarch

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Vincent Price

Vincent Price on Broadway as Mr. Manningham in "Angel Street", photographed by Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 11, 1942. (Library of Congess Prints and Photographs Division, Digital ID: van 5a52544)
J. B Priestley

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

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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

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

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Cokie Roberts

Mazo De la Roche

Phyllis Rose

Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
John Ruskin

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Marshall Saunders

Margaret Marshall Saunders. Frontispiece from Beautiful Joe, an autobiography; (1894)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Bernard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Bud Schulberg

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118219
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sandra Scoppettone

Sandra Scoppettone
Walter Scott, Sir

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )
Photo by Alan Light, 44th Emmy Awards, August 1992
(Flickr attribution license)
Gilbert Seldes

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 (Carl Van Vechten Photograph Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 1019)
Maurice Sendak

Alcoholics Anonymous

Photo by user Vangore / Wikimedia Commons.
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 ArtMadame de Sevigne

wikipedia
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Gail Sheehy

Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Alix Kates Shulman

photographer, Marion Ettlinger
Ed Sikov

Photo by David Shankbone, August 2007
Alan Sillitoe

Neil Simon

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1966 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121470)
Edith Sitwell

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Cornelia Otis Skinner

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

Elena Seibert
Liz Smith

Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Susan Sontag

Diana Souhami

Stephen Spender

Kevin Starr

John Steinbeck

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

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
George Steiner

Gertrude Stein

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

Jay Tamboli
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Matthew Sturgis

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Kate Somerscale

Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

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

Lewis Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Calvin Trillin

Ivana Trump

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Tzu Sun

John Updike

Martha Updike
Peter Ustinov

Paul Valery

Various

Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Gore Vidal

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

Milton Viorst
Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Andy Warhol

Rick Warren

Rick Warren
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Wendy Wasserstein

2005 Jill Krementz
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
A. P. Wavell

carl.army.mil
Susan S. Weed

© Susun Weed -Wise Woman Center
Eudora Welty

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

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

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

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