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Theodor W. Adorno

Arthur Agatston

William Allen

William Allen (1532-1594) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienBenedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Bonnie S. Anderson

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymus

Laura Antoniou

uncredited, per the author
Hartmann von Aue

Portrait of Hartmann von Aue from the Codex Manesse
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Buchner

Ame Mahler Beanland

Theresa Vargo
Mary Ritter Beard

Walter Benjamin

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Richard N. Bolles

Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Gloria G. Brame

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)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Andrea J. Buchanan

Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Pat Califia

Anonymous
Lewis Carroll

Jorge Cham

photography by rax
CHAUCER

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

from Wikipedia
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
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)
Angela Y. Davis

Jared M. Diamond

Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Umberto Eco

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

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Einhard

from Wikipedia
F. Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Von Eschenbach Wolfram

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
William Faulkner

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Gustave Flaubert

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Margaret Fuller

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

Credit: Tim Bartel, 2007, Mainz, Germany
Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Goldman

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

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

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

Field Marshal Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) Source: Das Jauerniger Blatt, 1945
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Hebbel

DDR-Stamp
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Johann Gottfried von Herder

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
E. T. A Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
David A. Hollinger

University of California Berkeley
bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nick Hornby

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Pope John Paul II

Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Harold James

Prof. Harold James. Photo credit: Meinen (2001) (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Elfriede Jelinek

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keble

John Keble, "From a photograph taken at Hursley Vicarage, in 1860, by the Rev. G.M. Gorham."
Shawna Kenney

Jack Kerouac

Heinrich van Kleist

Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Kevin Leman

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.)
J. Lenz

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

David Lynch

Credit: Rita Molnár, 2001, Cannes, France
Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel García Márquez

Glencoe McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Stuart Mill

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

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Robert Musil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Martin Opitz

Stich von Jakob von Heyden, 1631. "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905), Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Seite 65
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Ayn Rand

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

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rainer Maria Rilke

Louise Rinser

(Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0714-302)
Thomas Robisheaux

Photo: Angelique Droessaert
Sophie von LaRoche

J. K. Rowling

Laurie E. Rozakis

Stephan G. Kravitz
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)
John Sandford

Jean-Paul Sartre

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich von Schlegel

W. G. Sebald

Art by Zero
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
George Simmel

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Stifter

Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Gottfried von Strassburg

Ben Templesmith

NYCC 2009
Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Henry David Thoreau

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

John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Turgenev

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

Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Heinrich von Veldeke

Photo by user ArtMechanic / Wikimedia Commons
VIRGIL

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

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)
Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Source: "Zweihundert deutsche Männer in Bildnissen und Lebensbeschreibungen“, ed. by Ludwig Bechstein. Leipzig (1854)
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Zuckmayer

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