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Edwin A Abbott

From Wikipedia
Harold Abelson

Joi Ito
Marc Abrahams

Henry Adams

Conrad Aiken

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Sherwood Anderson

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

Apple Computer

Sign at Apple Headquarters. Photo by user Elwood_j_blues / Wikimedia Commons
Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer St. Augustine

Jane Austen

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

Anna Baker
Graeme Base

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Edward Bellamy

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)
E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henri Bergson

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Lloyd Jr. (Ed.) Biggle

Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Roy Blount Jr.

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Boethius,

Richard Nelson Bolles

Grady Booch

Michael Cote
Stewart Brand

Fernand Braudel

Richard Brautigan

Susan Brigden

Douglas G. Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
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
Frederick Phillips Brooks

Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
Samuel Butler

James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Julius Caesar

public domain
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)
Lewis Carroll

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Willa Cather

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

Bennett (Ed.) Cerf

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

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

Sigrid Estrada
Agatha Christie

Arthur Charles Clarke

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Phil Cousineau

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Charles Darwin

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

Wikipédia France
Richard Dawkins

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
August W. Derleth

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Reader's Digest Editors

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

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
John W. Dower

Columbia University
Ernest Dowson

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Alexandre Dumas Fils

Bruce Eckel

From Bruce Eckel's Website.
Copyright © Bruce Eckel. All rights reserved.
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Joseph J. Ellis

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
R.N. Captain Robert FitzRoy

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

Anatole France

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

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Theophile Gautier

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

Andre Gide

1893
George Gissing

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Jonathon Green

n/a
David Halberstam

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

O. Henry

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

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Herodotus

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)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Henry Hudson

wikipedia.org
Henrik Ibsen

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

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Montague Rhodes James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

Courtesy of the author
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
James Joyce

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

Ernst Juenger

Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Murray Kempton

Photo by Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-126477
Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Jack Kerouac

B. B. King

Rudyard Kipling

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William L. (Editor) Langer

Harvard Square Library
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Simon A. Levin

Prof. Simon A. Levin. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Jesse Liberty, provided by himself
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H. P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Benoit B. Mandelbrot

http://www.maa.org/students/chapter_news/ChapterNewsOct04.htm
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
John P. Marquand

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

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Martin E. Marty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Bobbie Ann Mason

Brander Matthews

See below
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Photo credit: Jay Rochlin
John Stuart Mill

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

Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
John Naisbitt

(cc) Michael Sauers, 2006
Ogden Nash

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

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Nostradamus

Portrait of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), Painted by his son César de Nostredame about 1614 A.D.
Sherwin Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Edna O'Brien

John O'Hara

Eugene O'Neill

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

Photo from The War Illustrated, 31 July 1915,
via WikipediaBlaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tom Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Plato

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

William H. Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Antoine Francois Prevost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Thomas de Quincey

Dan Rather

Photo by Dave Winer (Flickr/Cropped for Wikipedia)
Samuel Richardson

Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Rudolf Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Steven Runciman

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. D. Salinger

Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir, age 28, Chicago, IL. Frontispiece from The collected works of Edward Sapir (1900) Volume 3
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Dan Shaughnessy

Bernard Shaw

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

Elena Seibert
Tobias Smollet

from Wikipedia
Baruch Spinoza

Vincent Starrett

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Sarah Susanka

Strawbridge Photography
John Addington Symonds

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, via glbtq.com
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
E. P Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
James Thurber

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

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Arnold J. Toynbee

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margaret Truman

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Christopher Turner

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Voltaire

Larry Wall

Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames Welsh

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)
Thornton Wilder

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

I took this photo!
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Niklaus Wirth

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niklaus_Wirth,_UrGU.jpg
World Almanac Books

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

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

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Globalgoodnews.com
Edward Yourdon

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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