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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Aeschylus

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Leopoldo Alas

Unknown photographer
Rafael Alberti

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Bonnie S. Anderson

Hiroshige Ando

Posthumous memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada
Lou Salome

Anonymous

Gulliame Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Miguel Angel Asturias, [from old catalog]

W.H. Auden

Saint Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Mijail M. Bajtin

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Saul Bellow

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Heinrich Böll

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).
Ancius Boethius


Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Breton Andre

Raymond Briggs

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (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

Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
J. M. Cain

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

photo by Linda Lambert
John Le Carre

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Ciceron

from Wikipedia
J. M. Coetzee

Michael Cohen

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

James Fenimore Cooper

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

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Bob Curran

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Osamu Dazai

Tamura Shigeru(田村茂)
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Robert A Doughty

carl.army.mil
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Drieser

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

Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Bob Dylan

Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman

From "AMONG THE SIOUX
A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas," Creswell, 1906
(Project Gutenberg)
Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Bryce
Umberto Eco

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

Miguel A. Monjas
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
El Cid Campeador

Detail from a Statue of El Cid, Balboa Park, San Diego, California. Photo by Stan Shebs / Wikimedia Commons.
George Eliot

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

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Desiderius Erasmus

Jonathan Fast

http://www.yu.edu/faculty/fast/
William Faulkner

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

Charles Fort

Wikipedia
Jonathan Freedman

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Robert Frost

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
B. Perez Galdos

Eduardo H. Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Romulo Gallegos

Paul Gauguin

from Wikipedia
Ian Gibson

Miguel A. Monjas
Andre Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaˆi Vasilevich Gogol

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

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

The William Graves Collection
Wilhelm Grimm

State22
Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Shemsundin Mahommad Hafiz

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century
David Halberstam

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

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)
José Hernández

José Hernández (1834-1886)

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Langston Hughes

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

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Henrik Johan Ibsen

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

Panaït Istrati

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Courtesy of the author
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

translator) Kalidasa (Arthur W. Ryder

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Michael Kaufman

Michael Kaufman 1951-
http://www.michaelkaufman.com

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Rudyard Kipling

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Matthew Cippaghila
Par Lagerkvist

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Fernandez De Moratin

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)
Vicente Lenero

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C.S. Lewis

SINCLAIR LEWIS

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

Library of Congress
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Tom Lloyd

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 Lowell

Lucrecio

Georg Lukacs

Ross Macdonald

Niccolò Machiavelli

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Stephane Mallarme

Wikipédia France

Thomas Mann

Mao (Stuart R. Schram ed.) Tse-Tung

from Wikipedia
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

James Marshall

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Andre Maurois

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

Jonathan Mayhew. Frontispiece from Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. (1838) by Alden Bradford.
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson McCullers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
C. L Moore

John Burlinson
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)
Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Prosper Merimee

Wikipédia France
Richard A. Muller

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.)
Robert Musil

Soseki Natsume

Pablo Neruda

Gerard de Nerval

New York Public Library

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Anais Nin

Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Kenzaburo Oe

Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Juan Carlos Onetti

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Julie Otsuka

Daryl N Long
Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Jean-Paul

Portrait by Heinrich Pfenniger
Octavio Paz

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Titus Maccius Plautus

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.

Marcel Proust

Jayne Pupek

photo by R.D. Pupek
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Jane Ray

Rembrandt

Self-portrait, 1633,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Kenneth Rexroth

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Norman Rockwell

Santiago Roncagliolo

Manuel González Olaechea y Franco
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)
Juan Rulfo

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Mario Santana

Photo courtesy of the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir, age 28, Chicago, IL. Frontispiece from The collected works of Edward Sapir (1900) Volume 3
Jean-Paul Sartre

Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
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 ArtAnne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Shikibu Murasaki

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Susan Snyder

Swarthmore College.
Sofocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
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
Emmanuel Swedenborg

from Wikipedia
Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Systems HQ, San Jose, California. Photo by user Coolcaesar / Wikimedia Commons
Terencio

Thomas Aquinas

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Leon Trotsky

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

from Wikipedia
Juan Valera

Permission Fundacion Aguilar y Eslava
Paul Valery

Various

Lope De Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Paul Verlaine

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
François Villon

Voltaire

Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

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

Elena Seibert
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)
William Carlos Williams

Diane Wilson

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

Majonaise
Alan R. Young

Alan R. Young
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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