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Unknown

Paperback Pirate
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

Public-conversations
Anonymous

W. H Auden

Augustine of Hippo

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Stephen Batchelor

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

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

Courtesy of Indiana University
Edward Bellamy

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

Andrei Belyi

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Melanie Beresford

photo: Geoff Herbert
David Bergman

Jennifer Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop

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

Evan Sung
Juliette. Blevins

William J. Poser
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Gustave Le Bon

Wikimedia Commons
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Bowles

Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Anne Bronte

Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Robert Browning

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

Michelangelo

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Anthony Burgess

Richard Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
William H. Calvin

Lyle Campbell

William J. Poser
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Constantine Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Graham Caveney

Paul Celan

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Tschechow

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Patricia Smith Churchland

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Vivian Cook

Photo by Pam Cook
Henry Corbin

George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
Frank M. Cross

David Crystal

Bruce Cumings

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal

portrait by Vasily Perov (1872), courtesy Wikipedia
Charles Darwin

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

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Shobha Dé

Photo by user Wettach / Wikimedia Commons.
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Wilhelm Dilthey

Rosina Lippi-Green

Nurmi Husa
Fred McGraw Donner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Michael Dummett

Klaus Reisinger
Emile Durkheim

George Eliot

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

Sergeˆi Aleksandrovich Esenin

Bust from Grave of Sergei Esenin, Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow. Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons.
John King Fairbank

Rick Stafford
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Frances FitzGerald

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Jerry A. Fodor

Jerry Fodor at his reception dinner on November 7, 2007 during his visit to the University of Maryland. Photo by Pedro Alcocer.
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
H. F. W. Gesenius

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
John A. Goldsmith

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Graham Greene

Georgia M. Green

Thom Gunn

Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
D. G. E. Hall

DONALD HALL

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Marc D. Hauser

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Sven Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-17306)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
E. Howard Hunt

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Gary Indiana

Eugène Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Karen Sparck Jones

Courtesy of University of Cambridge (Wikipedia)
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Diana Kennedy

Kennedy Paul

(c)Robert Lisak
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Charles H. Kraft

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.)
Larry Kramer

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Choderlos de Laclos

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

Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
David Leddick

Wolf Leslau

Pete Unseth
Donald Nathan Levine

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Bertil Lintner

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Federico Garcia Lorca

Lucian.

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Niccolo Machiavelli

T. R Malthus

Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Golo Mann

Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W Somerset Maugham

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

Portrait from The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery (1678): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-74060)
(cropped)
Nancie McDermott

John H. McWhorter

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
James Ingram Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Czesaw Miosz

MDCarchives
Earl Roy Miner

Prof. Earl Miner, 1926-2004 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Pankaj Mishra

George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Frederick W. Mote

Prof. Frederick Mote. Photo by Robert Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Salikoko S. Mufwene

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Donna Jo Napoli

Paul Newman

TriviaKing
Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
George Orwell

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

Kevin P. Phillips

John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Ping Wang

Released by author under GFDL and uploaded to Wikipedia by user Larry Dunn.
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

William J. Poser

(c) William J. Poser
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Willard Van Orman Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh
Painting by Nicolas Hilliard, circa 1585
(Yorck Project)
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Pierre de Ronsard

Wikipédia France
J.J. Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Steven Runciman

Bertrand Russell

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

Mariam C. Said
Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Annemarie Schimmel

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons
Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
Thomas A. Sebeok

Seneca

Richard Sennett

Photo by Lilithcat
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Andrew Sherratt

Michelangelo Signorile

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 13, 2008, demonstration in New York City
Georg Simmel

Rick Smolan

Robert Scoble
Edgar Snow

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
National Geographic Society (U. S.)

George Steiner

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Wislawa Szymborska

Kazuaki Tanahashi

Photo by ottmarliebert.com / Flickr.
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert A. F. Thurman

Photo by Tenzin Nyima
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, graf

Public domain (Wikipedia Commons)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Denis Twitchett

Lao Tzu

Sunzi

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Thorsten Veblen

Wikipedia
Paul Verlaine

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

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Marie Luise Elisabeth (freiin von Wallersee) Larisch von Moennich

Wikipedia
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

Yale University
Alec Waugh

Max Weber

Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Wei Wang

David Schroeter, February 15, 2007
J. C. Wells

Tony Wheeler

Edmund White

Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robin W. Winks

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienVirginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
H. Yule

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Henry_Yule.jpg
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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