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Henry Adams

Theodor W. Adorno

Peter Alden

photo by Alison Bell
Lloyd Alexander

Dorothy Allison

Steve Almond

A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Lou Andreas-Salome

Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Donald Antrim

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

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)
Stanl Aronowitz

David Shankbone
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jerry Avorn

Photo © 2004 Jeffrey Thiebauth
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Lester Bangs

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Neil Bartlett

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Ernest Becker

Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Edward Bellamy

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

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

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Walter Benjamin

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Thomas Berger

Henri Bergson

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Allan Berube

Bart Everly
Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Frank Bidart

© Jerry Bauer
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
John Biguenet

Loyola University New Orleans
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
David Bodanis

Jorge Luis Borges

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Stewart Brand

Bertolt Brecht

Susie Bright

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
David Brin

By R. Feist
Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
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Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Carolyn Burke

Elena Seibert
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Pat Califia

Anonymous
Ernest Callenbach

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
William Calvin

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

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

David Carkeet

www.geocities.com/davidcarkeet/
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Stanley Cavell

Michael CHABON

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Nik Cohn

Ken Nahoum
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephanie Coontz

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Norman Cousins

Jim Crace

Hart Crane

David Crystal

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Richard E. Cytowic

Photo by Todd Franson
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Mike Davis

Dorothy Day

Guy Debord

Don DeLillo

John D'Emilio

Jim Oleson
Jacques Derrida

Kiran Desai

Dave Dewitt

Jared Diamond

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen Dobyns

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Rosina Lippi

Nurmi Husa
John Donne

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

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Pete Earley

photo by Patti Luzi Earley
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
T. S. Eliot

James Elkins

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Sara Evans

Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Frantz Fanon

Anthony S. Fauci

Anthony Fauci at the 2008 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremonies. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Anne Fausto-Sterling

Courtesy of Anne Fausto-Sterling
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Leslie Feinberg

David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Norma Field

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Harvey Fierstein

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

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Jonathan Franzen

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Roger Fry

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Jean Genet

William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
Louise Gluck

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Graver

Debi Milligan
Graham Greene

George Dawes Green

Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Ursula K. Le Guin

Thom Gunn

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert Hass

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Dolores Hayden

doloreshayden.com
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Echo Heron

Author photo courtesy of echoheron.com.
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Oscar Hijuelos

Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Billie Holiday

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116612 DLC
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.M. Homes

Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Sue Hubbell

Robert Giard
Langston Hughes

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

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Kenneth T. Jackson

Columbia University
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Richard Wyatt
Randall Jarrell

Barbara Johnson

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.)
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Lawrence Joseph

photo: ©2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound
James Joyce

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Franz Kafka

Charles Kaiser

Joe Stouter
Eric R. Kandel

August Wieselmayer from Wien Vienna, Österreich Austria
Immanuel Kant

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Ken Kesey

David A. Kessler

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Caroline Knapp

Wayne Koestenbaum

Janusz Korczak

US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miedzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie (ca. 1930)
Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Alex Kotlowitz

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008
Larry Kramer

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Peter D. Kramer

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Jacques Lacan

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Image by David Barison/Daniel Ross 2004 from the film The Ister (Wikipedia)
Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Philip Larkin

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Fran Lebowitz

Credit: Christopher Peterson, 2007
Wendy Lesser

Photo by Charles Haynes, on
FlickrDoris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Carlo Levi

Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Philip Levine

Frances Levine
Primo Levi

Daniel J. Levitin

Steven Levy

C. S. Lewis

David Levering Lewis

Columbia University
Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Daido Loori

Photo by Jeffrey Radcliffe / Flickr.
Robert Lowell

Lucretius

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Lewis MacAdams

Ned Raggett
Charles Mackay

Deborah Madison

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Mao Tse Tung

from Wikipedia
Herbert Marcuse

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Lynn Margulis

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain
Russell Martin

Daphne Maurier, Dame Du

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Gregory Mcdonald

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Mark Merlis

Photo by Steven Underwood
James Ingram Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Robert T. Michael

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jack Miles

Columbia University
Jean Baker Miller

Georgia Klamon Miller
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
Steven Millhauser

John Stuart Mill

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

MDCarchives
John Milton

Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Rick Moody

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)
Thomas More

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Joan Nathan

© 2005 Linda Spillers
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Linda Nochlin

NYU Institute of Fine Arts
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Scott O'Dell

Kenzaburo Oe

Sharon Olds

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Dorothy Parker

Courtesy of the
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John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Milorad Pavic

Octavio Paz

Dale Peck

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Felice Picano

Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Mary Pipher

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Roy Porter

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Samantha Power

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Michael Pye

Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Louise Rafkin

Trish Tunney
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Rachel Naomi Remen

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
Richard Reynolds

Maggie Hannan
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Jacob Riis

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-5511)
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAvital Ronell

Photo by user lotu5 / Wikimedia Commons
Berton Roueche

Source: CDC Public Health Image Library
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

Lillian B. Rubin

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)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)
Robert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Anne Wilson Schaef

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Erwin Schrodinger

Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Vincent Joseph Scully

Vincent Scully. White House photo by Susan Sterner.
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Maurice Sendak

Richard Sennett

Photo by Lilithcat
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
David Shapiro

Photo by Jordan Davis
Steven Shaviro

Wallace Shawn

MDCarchives
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Richard A. Shweder

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Shel Silverstein

Charles Simic

Library of Congress
Michael Sims

Alan Sinfield

Maj Sjowall

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
The University of Chicago press

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Gertrude Stein

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

taleswapper
David Henry Sterry

George R. Stewart

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

Kzitelman
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Szarkowski

Daniel Tammet

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor (left). Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Dylan Thomas

Lewis Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Mark Thompson

Susan Forrest (LT Mark Thompson #1)
06-02-09 Stonewall Anniversary History panel, City of West Hollywood.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Tenzin Nyima
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Jeffrey Toobin

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Calvin Trillin

Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Waters

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Max Weber

Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Alan Weisman

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienLawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Janwillem van de wetering

E. B. White

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

John Edgar Wideman

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Norbert Wiener

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
Oscar Wilde

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

Columbia University
Patricia J. Williams

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Carlos Williams

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Edmund Wilson

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

jeanettewinterson.com
David Wojnarowicz

Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Geoffrey Wolff

Tony Rollo
Tobias Wolff

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Yevgeny (Eugene) Zamiatin

Howard Zinn

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

Photo by Andy Miah
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