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Edward Abbey

Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Christopher Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Anonymous

Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Daniel Carter Beard

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

Saul. Bellow

Ingmar Bergman

Henri Bergson

WILLIAM BLAKE

Thomas Phillips
Judy Blume

Charles Boer

Charles Boer at Eranos 1996
Photo by Jay Livernois
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

George Borrow

wikipedia
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Italo Calvina

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
A. Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Lewis Carroll

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

from Wikipedia
E M Cioran

Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
J. M. Coetzee

Richard Cohen

British Veterens Fencing
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Corneille

Wikipédia France
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Francis Crick

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
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)
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Van Doren

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Emile Durkheim

Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
David Ferry

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Fletcher

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Dr.viktor frankl

Sir James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Jonathon Green

n/a
Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Friedrich A. Hayek

Seamus Heaney

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
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)
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

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

Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
John Hollander

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Sidney Hook

Tony Horowitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Robert Maynard Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
B.K.S. (Yehudi Menuhin Iyengar, Foreword)

Mutt Lunker
Harriet A. Jacobs

wikipedia
Brian. Jacques

Jalaloddin Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

James Keenan

Luigi Novi
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Jason Kelly

Downloadable press photo from http://www.jasonkelly.com/photos.html
John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) Wikipedia
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Choderlos de Laclos

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

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Philip Larkin

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

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

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

jannalevin.com
Claude Levi-Strauss. Translated by John and Doreen Weightman

C. S. Lewis

Bruce Lincoln

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkCharles Lipson

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Patrick Madrid

Courtesy of Patrick Madrid / English Wikipedia. Photo by Don Pound Studio.
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez

Carson McCullers

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

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
H. L. Mencken

Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Arthur Miller

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

Earl Mindell

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJulie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Christopher Morley

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

George Orwell

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

Swarthmore College.
Mark Ovenden

Ovid

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Dale Pendell

Robert PINSKY

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Plato

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

Karl Popper

Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Marcel Proust

Michael Pye

Thomas Pynchon

Editor Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
R. M. Rilke

J.K. Rowling

Rudolf Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
J. Ed. 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)
Winthrop Sargeant

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

Sri S. Satchidananda

Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry, http://www.nambassa.com/ (Wikipedia)
F. De Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Harvey Schmidt

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1955 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-116961)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Shchedrin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Captain Joshua Slocum

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71036)
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Sophocles

Constantin Stanislavski

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35320
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Todd Strasser

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Lee Strobel

Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Allen Tate

Allen Tate as a young man
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Deems Taylor

Alfred Tennyson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Donald J. Trump

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Swami Vivekananda

Please check wikimedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg for more details
Arthur Edward Waite

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Carl Weber

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Charles Wheelan

Charles Whiting

Mr. Whiting, at age 80, with a copy of his first novel.
[supplied by user iamiam (publisher)]
Tennessee Williams

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

I took this photo!
P.G. Wodehouse

William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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