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Chris Abani

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Scott Adams

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

Aristotle

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

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David H. Barlow

Boston University Photo Services
Ellen Bass

Janet Bryer

Simone De Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Ray Bradbury

Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Lewis Carroll

Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Anton Chekhov

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
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Charles Darwin

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

Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Alexandre Dumas père

Ronald Dworkin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Ralph Ellison

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sara Evans

Oliver La Farge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Mahatma Gandhi

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

William Gibson

Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
William Golding

John Gray

Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Hafez

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century
G. W. F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Robert A. Heinlein

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)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo by Wendy Slattery / Flickr.
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Milan Kundera

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia

Daphne Du Maurier

Arthur Miller

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
John Stuart Mill

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

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Walter Dean Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photo by Mary Vasquez
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze

Anais Nin

Nizami

Photo by user Grandmaster / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Nozick

Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Scott O'Dell

George Orwell

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

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
John Rawls

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com

Jean-Paul Sartre

Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
John R Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Andrew Sullivan

Trey Ratcliff
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia

Kurt Vonnegut

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Wolfe

Naomi Wolf

Mary Wollstonecraft

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.
Philip Zelikow

Courtesy of Philip Zelikow
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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