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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Louisa M. Alcott

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

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
A Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen (Illustrated) by Rex Whistler

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
MAYA ANGELOU

National Park Service
Jean Anouilh

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Daisy Ashford

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-30073

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Jane Austen

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

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Trezza Azzopardi

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.
Enid Bagnold

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

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

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Barnes Julian

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Jeanine Basinger

Bill Burkhart
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Hilaire Belloc

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

Quentin Bell


Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

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

Eye on Books
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Chuck Berry


John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Richard Doddridge Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Quentin Blake

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

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).
Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Peter Bogdanovich

Wikipedia user Eliaws
Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

James. Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Malcolm Bradbury

M.E. Braddon

Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Julia Briggs

Raymond Briggs

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Anne Bronte

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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
RUPERT BROOKE

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Louise Brooks

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

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

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A S BYATT

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Roy (trans). Campbell

Bogdan Dimitriu, 2008
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)
FRANK CAPRA

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Eric Carle

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Violet Bonham Carter

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-07463)
Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of

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


Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Graham Chapman

CHATWIN

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

A. P Chekhov

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

from Wikipedia
JOHN CLEESE

Photo by Alan Light, 1989 (Flickr & Cropped for Wikipedia)
Jean Cocteau

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Eoin Colfer

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

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Ivy Compton Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Hart Crane

Gillian Cross

Photo by Bob Jesson
David Crystal

E.E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Bernard (Introduction) Darwin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-32705)
(cropped)
Charles Darwin

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


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

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

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Reader's Digest

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

In Kenya, 1918
Benjamin Disraeli

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

John Donne

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Elaine Dundy

Douglas Dunn

Fay Godwin
Gerald Durrell

Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Emily Eden

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Maria Edgeworth

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Einhard The Frank

from Wikipedia

George Eliot

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

Alice Thomas Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Ellison

William Empson

John Burlinson
Euripides

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

Connie Miller
Monika Fagerholm

Västgöten
Mia Farrow

William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Rachel Ferguson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Joshua Ferris

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Carrie Fisher

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

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

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Robert Fitz-Roy

Photographic copy by Herman John Schmidt of a portrait lithograph
Gustave Flaubert

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Antonia Forest

Courtesy of Sue Sims.
EM Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R.F. Foster

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty. Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Jane Gardam

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Simon Garfield

simongarfield.com
Mrs Gaskell

William John Thomson
Martha Gellhorn

Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(cropped)
(jfklibrary.org)
Adele Geras

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
William Gibson

SM Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
George Gissing

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr

Louise Gluck

Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Christopher Golden

William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
E. H. GOMBRICH

The Warburg Institute
I.A. Goncharov

Nadine Gordimer

Maxim. Gorky

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

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Sarah Grand

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

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
ROBERT. GRAVES

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University

Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Grenville Kate

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Grossmith

public domain image
Barbara Guest

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Sophie Hannah

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lillian Hellman

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)

Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Robert Herrick

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Geoffrey Hill

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E. J. Hobsbawm

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

James Hogg

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Homer

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


Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

A.E. Housman

W D Howells

from Wikipedia
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eva Ibbotson

Henrik Ibsen

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

Wikimedia Commons
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
W. Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Henry James

Wikipedia
M R James

www.stephengray.net

Storm Jameson

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

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Randall Jarrell

Jerome K Jerome

Diane Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Griff Rhys Jones

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.

John Keats

GARRISON KEILLOR

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Mary H Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
Dick King-Smith

Rudyard Kipling

Melanie Klein

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Von Kleist

Erich Kastner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Hari Kunzru

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Caroline Lamb

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

wikipedia
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Philip Larkin

Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
F.R. Leavis

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
John Lennon

Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Penelope Lively

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Hugh MacDiarmid

Bust of Hugh MacDiarmid, South Gyle, Scotland. Photo by user MacRusgail / English Wikipedia.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Compton Mackenzie

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Leonard Maltin

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Walter De la Mare

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

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Groucho Marx

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
W 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 Daphne Du Maurier

Glyn Maxwell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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
J.D. McClatchy

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Alister E. McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

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

John Stuart Mill

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

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

MDCarchives

John Milton

Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
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)
Lady Morgan

Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
JOHN MORTIMER

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Jill Murphy

Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Simon James
V. S Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Ogden Nash

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

Pablo Neruda

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Flannery O'Connor


Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Susie Orbach

George Orwell

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

Alicia Suskin Ostriker (1937- )
Alicia Ostriker howling: remembering Allen Ginsberg.
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Richard Overy

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
ED) THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK (DAVID GARNETT

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Samuel Pepys

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

Tom Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter

Roy Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
J.B. Priestley

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

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
A.S. Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

Kathleen Raine

Meladina
HERBERT READ

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Mary Renault

Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Michele Roberts

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia

Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Duc De Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J.D. Salinger

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Sappho

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Columbia University
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Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
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Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
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Owen Sheers

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Francesca Simon

Helen Simpson

Derek Thompson
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Elena Seibert
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Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
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John Burlinson
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C.P. Snow

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Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
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Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Dale Spender

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Jean Sprackland

Caroline Forbes
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Ball State University
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Dylan Thomas

Edward Thomas

Poems, 1917
Thoreau Henry David

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James Thurber

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Virgil

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