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Peter Abelard

Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Richard Aldington

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

James Arminius

Nordisk familjebok
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
M.M. Bakhtin

Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Samuel Beckett

Bede

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Wendell Berry

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

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)
Kurt D. Bruner

owned by Kurt Bruner
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Samuel Butler

Jesse L. Byock

Lord George Gordon Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Truman Capote

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

Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Paulo Coelho

Robert Emerson Coleman

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Michael Cook

Prof. Michael Cook (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David Damrosch

Ellen Datlow, ed.

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Will Durant

Colin Duriez

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.)
Umberto Eco

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

from Wikipedia
Alexander Eliot

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
T. S. Eliot

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Episcopal Church

Washington National Cathedral. Photo by user AgnosticPreachersKid / Wikimedia Commons
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

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

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

James George Frazer

Robert Frost

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

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman, and Terry Pratchett

© Miriam Berkley. Use of image requires permission from
Miriam Berkley.
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Kahlil Gibran

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Science Fiction Author Steven Gould (self-portrait, iCam)
John Gower

C. H. Grandgent

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

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt, ed.

Harvard University
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

phosphorescent
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
E. W. Hengstenberg

Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Gareth Hinds

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Brian Jacques

Paul Jenkins

C. G. Jung

Franz Kafka

John Keats

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Par Lagerkvist

Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

C. S. Lewis

Frederico Lorca

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
John Lydgate

Here begynneth the testament of Iohn Lydgate monke of Berry (London: Richard Pynson, 1520)
Rob MacGregor

Niccolo Machiavelli

Alberto Manguel, ed.

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Brennan Manning

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.)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Walter Martin

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.)
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
J.D. Mcclatchy

Alister E. McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Brian D. McLaren

Photo by user Virgil Vaduva / English Wikipedia.
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Bruce M. Metzger

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.)
Arthur Miller

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

Jaci Gresham, October 11, 2006
John Milton

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Napoleon Bonaparte

Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, circa 1801
Donna Jo Napoli

Julian of Norwich

Flannery O'Connor

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
George Orwell

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

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, ed.

Clark H. Pinnock

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.)
Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Ayn Rand

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

sherireynolds.com
James M. Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

J. K. Rowling

Steven Runciman

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Photo courtesy: Wayne Alan Harold
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Peter Schweighofer, ed.

Jon Schieszka

Sir Walter Scott

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

Wikipedia
John Patrick Shanley

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)
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Joseph Smith

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown
Wilbur Smith

Stephen Sondheim

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

Baruch Spinoza

George Steiner

Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
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
Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Time Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Vergil

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

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
John F. Walvoord

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJ.G. Whittier

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

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

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

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W. Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
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