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Pearl Abraham

photographer: Tim Schultheis
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
C.S. Adama van Scheltema

Photograph (1903) by Alex Bratsch
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aesopus

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Tsjingiz Ajtmatov

Andreas Zak
Pedro A. de Alarcon

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Günther Anders

Sherwood Anderson

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

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

António Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Aristophanes

Aristoteles

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

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Isaak Babel

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

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Jurek Becker

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

Antony Beevor

Frédéric Beigbeder

Photo by Max Khokhlov
Saul Bellow

Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn c. 1951, by Tobias Falberg. From
Wikipedia.
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Heinrich Böll

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

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

Malcolm Bradbury

M.E. Braddon

Bertolt Brecht

Charlotte Brontë

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

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Cd. Busken Huet

Conrad Busken Huet (1826-1886)
Erskine Caldwell

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

Jerry Bauer
Elias Canetti

Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
J. L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Adelbert von Chamisso

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

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
Jean Cocteau

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

Marie Corelli

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Jan Cremer

Roald Dahl

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

by Michal Maňas
Charles Darwin

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

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
J.P. Donleavy

Johnny van Doorn

F.M. Dostojewski

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

Umberto Eco

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Péter Esterházy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Frederick Forsyth

Jonathan Franzen

Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Guido Gezelle

Guido Gezelle (1830-1899)
W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaj Gogolj

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

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan A. Gontsjarov

Maksim Gorki

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

Hella Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Jaroslav Hašek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Václav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Hermann Hesse

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

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Bohumil Hrabal

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

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Yoram Kaniuk

Photo by user Howcheng / Wikimedia Commons
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Daniil Charms

Danilo Kiš

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Ephraim Kishon

Klabund

Lithograph by Emil Orlik (1870-1932)
Ivan Klíma

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Aleksandra Kollontaj

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

Erich Kästner

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

Choderlos de Laclos

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

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

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

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Torgny Lindgren

Hannibal
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Thomas Mann

Catherine Millet

Octave Mirbeau

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Erwin Mortier

Wikimedia Commons
Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenzaburo Oë

George Orwell

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

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Konstantin Paustovskij

John Burlinson
Platoon

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

Alexander Poesjkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Eça de Queiroz

Marcel Reich-Ranicki

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

Henriëtte Roland Holst

Portrait by M. de Klerk (1884-1923)
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D.A.F. 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)
José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Friedrich Schiller

Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Meir Shalev

Beny Shlevich
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
I.J. Singer

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

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

Andrzej Stasiuk

John Steinbeck

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)
Eugène Sue

wikimedia commons
Wisława Szymborska

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Leo Tolstoj

public domain
Kurt Tucholsky

Iwan Sergejewitsj Toergenjew

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

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Peter Ustinov

Immanuel Velikovsky

Donna Foster Roizen
Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
Wladimir Wojnowitsj

Galina Zakhoder
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jill Paton Walsh

de Hertog van Windsor

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

(c) Mark Fairhurst
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Paweł Cieśla
E. Dekker wed. ds. Wolff

Portrait of Betje Wolff (c. 1754)
Mrs. Henry Wood

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

Wikipédia France
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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