photographer: Tim Schultheis

Photo © Stephen Long

Peter D. Mark

Photograph (1903) by Alex Bratsch

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.

Andreas Zak

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)

Image © ÖNB/Wien

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

Gedenktafel für Stefan Andres am Niederprümer Hof in Schweich. Photo by user Schweich / Wikimedia Commons.

Image © ÖNB/Wien

www.mathieu-bourgois.com

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

George Whiteside

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

Photograph © ÖNB/Wien

Library of Congress

Jerry Bauer

Photo © ÖNB/Wien

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)

Image © ÖNB/Wien

Photo by Max Khokhlov

Image © ÖNB/Wien

Gottfried Benn c. 1951, by Tobias Falberg. From Wikipedia.

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

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

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

Portrait of Miss M. E. Braddon (Mrs. John Maxwell) [picture] [1911].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-vn3582548

From Owen Barfield Website

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)

credit: Philip Scalia

Photo by Charles Ellis; Dorris Alexander (Dee) Brown, from Stephens (Ouachita County), author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; circa 1978.

Robert Cowen

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.

Conrad Busken Huet (1826-1886)

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

Jerry Bauer

Image © ÖNB/Wien

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David

Photo: Heulwen Cox

ÁWá

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia

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

From Wikimedia Commons, Mariusz Kubik

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.

© 2007 Eliane Duvekot

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)

by Michal Maňas

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

Matti À (Reykjavik, 2006).

Daniel C. Dennett

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Wikipedia
Photographer wikipage

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

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Photo by Mariusz Kubik

Deutsche Post der DDR

Copyright Eye On Books.

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Guido Gezelle (1830-1899)

Wikipédia France

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)

Wikimedia Commons

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

Portrait by Ilana Simons

Photo by Chris van Houts

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo © ÖNB/Wien

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.

Photograph by Jerry Bauer

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

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

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

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

Image © ÖNB/Wien

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

wikimedia commons

Photo by user Howcheng / Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons

Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.

from Lifeinlegacy.com

Lithograph by Emil Orlik (1870-1932)

Pinn Hans

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-25077)

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

Photo by Fridrik Rafusson, courtesy of Faber Books

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

Engraving by P. Velijn after a drawing by W. Grebner (1832)

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894

Hannibal

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte

Portrait by Ilana Simons

Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Wikimedia Commons

Photo © ÖNB/Wien

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

John Burlinson

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

from Life in Legacy

courtesy Wikipedia

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ludwig Börne Award Ceremony, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. Photo by user dontworry / Wikimedia Commons.

Photo © ÖNB/Wien

Portrait by M. de Klerk (1884-1923)

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi

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

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)

Periodista digital.com

From Wikimedia Commons, Gemälde von Ludovike Simanowiz (1794).

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.

Art by Zero

Beny Shlevich

Wikipedia Image

(Library of Congress Van Vechten Photographs LOT 12735, no. 1039)

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

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

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

wikimedia commons

From Owen Barfield Website

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

public domain

From Wikimedia Commons

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

Image © ÖNB/Wien

Martha Updike

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

(left) Image © ÖNB/Wien

Donna Foster Roizen

Anonymous photographer

Galina Zakhoder

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

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

(c) Mark Fairhurst

jeanettewinterson.com

Paweł Cieśla

Portrait of Betje Wolff (c. 1754)

Reginald Easton, d. 1893, from Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood, 1894

Wikipédia France

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix