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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Sherman Alexie

David Allen

The David Allen Company
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Sherwood Anderson

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

Joe Mabel
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Lester Bangs

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Nicholas A. Basbanes

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Charles Baxter

Charles A. Beard

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

Kai Bird

Columbia University
(Kai Bird is at center)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Bracewell

Stewart Brand

Fernand Braudel

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)
John L. Brooke

Courtesy of John L. Brooke
Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Thomas Bulfinch

Loree Griffin Burns

Photo by Betty Jenewin
Edwin G. Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Paul Carter

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ruy Castro

Andrew R. L. Cayton

French Ensor Chadwick

Photo Attributed to Edward H. Hart, c 1899 (Library of Congress)
Graham Chapman

Ron Chernow

Sigrid Estrada
Robert Christgau

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
James Freeman Clarke

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

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr & Cropped for Wikipedia)
Thomas C. Cochran

Frank Ross
Pennsylvania Gazette
University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Coe

Nik Cohn

Ken Nahoum
Le Corbusier

Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Ely Culbertson

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

Jane Doerfer

Joe Witt
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Elbert Hubbard

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
T. S. Eliot

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Livingston Farrand

Underwood and Underwood
William Faulkner

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

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

John R. Galvin

Photo by RUSSELL F. ROEDERER, 1991 (Wikimedia Commons)
Daniel Coit Gilman

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Graham Greene

Harvey Green

Susan R. Williams
Jacob Grimm

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

David Halberstam

Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Dolores Hayden

doloreshayden.com
Joseph Haydn

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Ernest Hemingway

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

Christopher Hill

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Eric Hobsbawm

Homer

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

Jerry Bauer
James Kendall Hosmer

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

Joyce Ravid
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Kenneth T. Jackson

Columbia University
Jane Jacobs

Mick Jagger

Gonzalo Andrés, 2007
Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Owen Johnson

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Pamela Sheldon Johns

Andrea Wyner.
Colin Jones

James Joyce

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Michael G. Kammen

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Roger G. Kennedy

Courtesy U.S. National Park Service
Ross King

W. P. Kinsella

Verlyn Klinkenborg

© 2005 Lindy Smith
Milan Kundera

James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Anne Lamott

Lewis H. Lapham

Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Jill Lepore

Dari Michele
Sinclair Lewis

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

Paul Thompson, Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry Cabot Lodge

J. F. Purdy (1906)
Anita Loos

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

Photo by Edward Hower
Sarah Lyall

Author Photograph by Lisa Wolfe
John Lydon

David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Greil Marcus

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

Christy Mathewson

Credit: Paul Thompson, 1910
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13527)
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John Bach McMaster

John B. McMaster. Frontispiece (cropped) from Great epochs in American history : described by famous writers from Columbus to Roosevelt (1912)
McNally and Company. [from old catalog] Rand

H. L. Mencken

Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Edmund Sears Morgan

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Jan Morris

Ogden Nash

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

Jakob Nielsen

http://www.useit.com/jakob/photos/
Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
John O'Hara

Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Tip O'Neill

Painting by Robert Vickery, 1986, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
George Orwell

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

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

Samuel Pepys

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

Plutarch

Katha Pollitt

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Iggy Pop

Credit: Robert Toren, 1980, at UC Davis
Katherine Anne Porter

Roy Porter

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Jack N. Rakove

Columbia University
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Paul Revere

Portrait by John Singelton Copley (Public domain : Wikipedia)
Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodger (at piano) with Lorenz Hart, 1936, World Telegram photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-122089)
Carl Parcher Russell

From NPS Uniforms, U.S. National Park Service.
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
J. D. Salinger

Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Arthur Meier Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Chris Schlesinger

East Coast Grill
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Carl Schurz

Civil War photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs Division,LC-DIG-cwpb-07114)
Vincent Joseph Scully

Vincent Scully. White House photo by Susan Sterner.
Meryle Secrest

Marion Ettlinger
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 ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Michael Shuman

Michael Shuman (on left). Chris Johnson , October 19, 2006
Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff

Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (1810-1874)
image courtesy of
alibrarianShel Silverstein

Iain Sinclair

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Peter Sís

Matěj Baťha
Adam Smith

John Steinbeck

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

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
William Graham Sumner

Billy Sunday

Baseball card, circa 1887-1890
(Benjamin K. Edwards Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-131165)
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

E.P. Thompson

James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Freeman Tilden

Courtesy of U.S. National Park Service
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Calvin Trillin

Henry T. Tuckerman

Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813-1871)
Photograph circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Frederick Jackson Turner

Wikipedia
Moses Coit Tyler

Credit: William Notman, 1872 (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-42558)
Laurel Ulrich

Richard Howard
John Updike

Martha Updike
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Alice Waters

Taken by Lilithcat
M. L. Weems

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

Brady-Handy Photographs,
Loc Prints and Photographs Division,
(LC-DIG-cwpbh-00848)
Eudora Welty

E. B. White

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

William Foote Whyte

Sean Wilentz

Prof. Sean Wilentz (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Robin W. Winks

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Jacqueline Winspear

(c) Mark Fairhurst
P. G. Wodehouse

Adam Zamoyski

Wyklety
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Michael Zuckerman

Courtesy of Prof. Zuckerman
Olivier Zunz

Courtesy of the author.
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