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Edward Abbey


Douglas Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Athanasius

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

W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

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

Alfred J. Ayer


Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net

John Banville

Jerry Bauer

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Samuel Beckett

Henri Bergson

Ambrose Bierce

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

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer


Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ray Bradbury


Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Edwin G. Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
John D. Caputo

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.)
Orson Scott Card


Lewis Carroll

James P. Carse

http://www.jamescarse.com

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Frederick Copleston

Jacques Derrida

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

from Wikipedia

Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Alexandre Dumas

Will Durant

Emile Durkheim

Umberto Eco

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


George Eliot

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Joshua Ferris

Gustave Flaubert


E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons

Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Viktor E. Frankl

Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
William Golding

Eli Gottlieb

Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thich Nhat Hanh

Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
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)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

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

from Wikipedia
Eugene Ionesco

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt

Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke (right) at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008. Photo by Manfred Werner / Wikimedia Commons.
James Joyce

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

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
M. M. Kaye

Nikos Kazantzakis

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


Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia

Leszek Kolakowski

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 2007
Saul A. Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Milan Kundera

T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

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

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
C. S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives

Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Thomas Mann

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia

Jack Miles

Columbia University
A. A. Milne

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

taken by Saturnino Miranda
Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Farley Mowat


Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

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

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Clifford Odets

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

Saint Paul

Image from Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 876 (AA size))
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney

Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Francois Rabelais

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC

J. K. Rowling


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Jean-Paul Sartre

George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jon Scieszka


Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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 ArtMary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe

Dan Simmons

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Adam Smith

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.

John Steinbeck

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

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O

Public-Conversations
Saint Thomas Aquinas


Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
Henry David Thoreau

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

public domain
Sigrid Undset


John Updike

Martha Updike
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Voltaire


Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Simone Weil

Lawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
E. B. White

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

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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