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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Theodor Adorno

Aeschylus

Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J. L. Austin

Isaac Babel

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

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
M.M. Bakhtin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Bertolt Brecht

Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Charles Brockden Brown

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

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Martin Buber

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Edmund Burke

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

Jreberlein
Samuel Butler

George Gordon Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card


Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robin George Collingwood

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
Alexander Cruden

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

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Maria Edgeworth

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

George Eliot

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

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Gustave Flaubert

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

André Gide

1893
George Gissing

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

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

Wikipédia France
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Alexander Hamilton


Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Heinrich Heine

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

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.
Hesiod


Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
E.D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Eric Hobsbawm

James Hogg

John Hollander

Homer

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

Photographer unknown
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Henrik Ibsen

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

Wikipedia
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)
Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka


Immanuel Kant

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Jack Kerouac

Sören Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Russell Kirk

Heinrich von Kleist

Saul A. Kripke

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

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Image by David Barison/Daniel Ross 2004 from the film The Ister (Wikipedia)
Par Lagerkvist

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
F.R. Leavis

Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Claude Levi-strauss

Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Sinclair Lewis

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

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Georg Lukacs

Thomas Babington Macaulay

George MacDonald

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.)
Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Guy de Maupassant

Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
J. Hillis Miller

Zenohockey
John Stuart Mill

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

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Vladimir Nabokov

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

John Henry Cardinal Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Florence Nightingale

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

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Robert Nozick

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
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Pepys

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

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Karl Raimund Popper

Roy Porter

Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
I.A. Richards

Samuel Richardson

Cardinal Richelieu

Sculpture by Francesco Schiaffino, 1748,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Edmund Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
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)
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Marquis De Sade

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)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJean-Paul Sartre

Ferdinand la Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Friedrich von Schiller

Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Walter Scott

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

Sketch of Mary Seacole (1805-1881) in c.1855, by William Simpson (1823-1899); (Wikipedia)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick


William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/129/sarnov.htm
Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Adam Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser


Benedictus de Spinoza

George Steiner

Gertrude Stein

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
E.P. 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
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Leon Trotsky

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Horace Walpole

Mrs. Humphrey Ward

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienOscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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