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Eschyle

Henri Corneille-Agrippa

Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Louisa May Alcott

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

The David Allen Company
Anonyme

Jean Anouilh

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Apulée

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophane

Aristote

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Miguel Angel Asturias

Saint Augustin

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Langshaw Austin

Ayme Marcel

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Barrie-J.M

Maurice Barrès

wikipedia
Roland Barthes


Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Chevalier d'Eon

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

Samuel Beckett

Frederic Beigbeder

Photo by Max Khokhlov
Thomas Berger

Georges Bernanos

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

Luc Besson with Bridget Fonda, Cannes, 2001
(credit: Rita Molnár)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Maurice Blanchot


Boèce

Pierre Bordage

Esby

Jorge Luis Borges

Bossuet

From "The Hundred Greatest Men," 1885 (UofTexas Public Domain Photo Gallery)
Paul Bourget

From "Revue illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R. Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

André Breton

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
La Bruyère

Wikiépdia France
Pearl Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
César

public domain
Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Lewis Carroll

Catulle

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
Chaucer

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

Cicéron

from Wikipedia
Emil Michel Cioran

Arthur C. Clark

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Philippe Claudel

Jean Cocteau

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

Colette

from Wikipedia
Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Patricia Cornwell

Microsoft Corporation

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier d'Agoty (1740-1786)
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Barbey d'Aurevilly

From "Revue Illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague) De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Diderot.

Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas Disch

Ariel Hameon
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Joachim Du Bellay

Wikipédia France
Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Alexandre Fils


Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Anny Duperey

Photo Ricardo Boimare
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Honoré d' Urfé

Emile Durkheim

Victor Duruy


Umberto Eco

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

Ian Gittler
Erckmann - Chatrian

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

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

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Farmer Philip-Jose

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

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

wikipedia
Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Gustave Flaubert

Florian

Robert Fludd

Robert Fludd (1574–1637), English physicist, astrologer, and mystic. (Wikipedia Commons)
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Michel Foucault

France Anatole

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James George Frazer, Sir

Georgiana Fullerton

Max Gallo

ΛΦΠ
Finn Garner J.

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Théophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Jean Genet

Genevoix Maurice

Wikipédia France
André Gide

1893
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Goethe

Wikipédia France
Gogol Nicolas

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

Pierre Grimbert

Jacob Grimm

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

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Friedrich Holderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Homère

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eugène Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Henry James

Wikipedia

M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Joseph Joffo

Dinkley
J. Joyce

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

Ismaïl Kadaré

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Brian-W Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Kerouac

Rudyard Kipling

Klopstock

Portrait by Jens Juel. Photo by user Saddhiyama / Wikimedia Commons.
Milan Kundera

Labiche

wikimedia commons - Portrait of Eugène Labiche, french playwright, by Marcellin Desboutin
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)
Madame de La Fayette

Selma Lagerlöf

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

Wikipédia France
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
comte de Lautréamont

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Frédéric Lenoir

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2007
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eliphas Lévi

Wikipedia
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

Guillaume de Lorris

Pierre Loti

Octave Uzanne

Howard Philips Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucien.

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Lucrèce

Raymond Lulle

Statue of Ramon Llull, Univeristy of Barcelona. Photo by user Dr. Manuel / German Wikipedia.
Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Wikipédia France
Hector Malot

André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Walter De LA Mare

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

Wikipedia
Gabriel García Márquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Maurois Andre

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Michelet

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

Joan Miró, 1935. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-42511)
Frédéric Mistral

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

Wikipédia France
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Maréchal Montgomery

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Morrison/Toni

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Prosper Mérimée

Wikipédia France
Alfred de Musset

Wikipédia France
Gérard de Nerval

Anaïs Nin

Charles Nodier

Amélie Nothomb

Novalis

Georges Ohnet

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

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Iain Pears

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Pétrone

Pindare

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Mazarine Pingeot

Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006, Paris, France
Platon

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

Plutarque


Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
David Pogue

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Prévost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Patrick Rambaud

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Benoît XVI Pape

Wikipedia
Kathy Reichs

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
La Rochefoucauld

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

Wikipédia France
Edmond 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)
Firmin Roz

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

wikimedia commons
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Jerome David Salinger

Salluste

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
David Scott

Astronaut David R. Scott (Photo created by NASA)
Sénèque

Luis Sepúlveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
Madame de Sévigné

wikipedia
William (Edited By G.B. Harrison) Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

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

Wikipedia Image
Simenon Georges

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Philippe Sollers

Sophocle

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Tacite

Tagore R

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

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

W. M. Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Thucydide

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

Lillian Too

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Michel Tournier

Ivan Tourgueniev

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

Photo by Adam Hodgson, Flickr
Paul Valéry

Alfred E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Verlaine Paul :

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)
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Alfred de Vigny

Wikipédia France
François Villon

Joan D Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Virgile

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Jacques de Voragine

Detail from "Crucifixion" by Ottaviano Nelli, Chapel of the Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. Photo by Georges Jansoone / Wikimedia Commons
Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Patrick Weber

Georges Seguin
Oscar Wilde

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

Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Zola Emile

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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