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Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Wikipedia
R. Tucker Abbott

Photo Courtesy of The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
Ralph David Abernathy

Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)
National Press Club luncheon, June 14, 1968. Photograph by Warren K. Leffler
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
James Agee

Ryˆunosuke Akutagawa

Edward Albee

Louisa May Alcott

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

photo by Alison Bell
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Julia Alvarez

Stephen Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

Author Unknown. Mário de Andrade (seated), Anita Malfatti (seated, center) e Zina Aita (left of Anita), in São Paulo, Brazil, 1922.
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Mary Antin

Mary Antin & sister Fetchke as infant children. Project Gutenberg
William Apess

Wikipedia
Anne Applebaum

Reinaldo Arenas

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

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

Royal Academy of Arts

Drawing by Simon Fieldhouse
Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
American Library Association

Book drive poster by C.B. Falls, circa 1919-1923
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-3178)
Miguel Angel Asturias

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
David Attenborough

Shojo
Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
I. Babel§

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

Honore Balzac

Wikipédia France
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Stanislaw Baranczak

Mariusz Kubik
Ernst Barlach

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Melanie Barnard

Houghton Mifflin Publications
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Anne Clinard Barnhill

Dave Barry

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Bashˆo Matsuo

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Lidia Bastianich

Christopher Hirsheimer
Mario Batali

Credit: Charles Haynes, May 13, 2005
Georg Buchner

Luther Standing Bear

Credit: Photo by Fowler, Chicago, July 21, 1891
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-56421)
Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

Lerone Bennett

John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
E. C. Bentley

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Thomas Bernhard

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ambrose Bierce

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

Thomas Phillips
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).
Matthew Bogdanos

Image provided by author (Matthew Bogdanos) to Wikimedia Commons
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

Tadeusz Browski

James Boswell

Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Ray Bradbury

William. Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Hermann Broch

Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

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

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Charles Brockden Brown

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

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Laurent De Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

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

Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Afanas§evich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

Abraham Cahan

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1937 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119095)
James M. Cain

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

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Karel 郡pek

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City (Photo credit: Wolfgang Stuck, Sept. 2004)
Paul Celan

Bennett A. Cerf

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

Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-USZ62-42495)
Graham Chapman

Chateaubriand.

Wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Chekhov

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

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)
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Francis James Child

L. Maria Child

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Walter van Tilburg Clark

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

CLEAVER ELDRIDGE

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
William Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Edward T. Cone

Prof. Edward Toner Cone. Photo by George Pitcher (courtesy of Princeton University)
Confucius

William Congreve

Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
John Cornwell

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Saint John of the Cross

Countee Cullen

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

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

defenselink.mil
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Reader's Digest Association

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E. L. Doctorow

John Donaldson

© 2003 by James F. Perry
Walter Dornberger

Dornberger with Lt Col. Herbert Axter, Prof. Werner von Braun, and Hans Lindenberg, upon surrendering to the U.S. (1945)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"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)
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Marcel Duchamp

Leon Hartt, Marcel Duchamp (center), and Mrs. Hartt: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-63273)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Mona Van Duyn

George Dyson

Photo © Esther Dyson
Charles Eastman

From "AMONG THE SIOUX
A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas," Creswell, 1906
(Project Gutenberg)
Paul Ehrlich

Image of Paul Ehrlich on the 1996 series 200 DM note.
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)
T. S. Eliot

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
John Emsley

Photo by John Holman
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.
Desiderius Erasmus

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
M. C. Escher

Péter Esterházy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Euripides

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

Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
James T Farrell

Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Federico Fellini

Matt Derry
Edna Ferber

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

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Charles G. Finney

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.)
Jim Fisher

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)
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
C.S. FORESTER

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Viktor E. Frankl

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fried

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJacques Futrelle

霧木諒二 on Wikipedia
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Earl Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Henry Louis Gates, editor

James Cardinal Gibbons

1903 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-106024)
Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)
W.S. and Sullivan Gilbert, Arthur

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
(cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Brendan Gill

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

Sweden, March 1985,
promoting 'Brazi"
(Credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

René Girard

Vicq
Vincent van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Nikolai Gogol

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

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Jane Van Lawick-Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Nadine Gordimer

Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
A.C. Grayling

Graham Greene

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
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.)
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius - Portrait by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631. From
WikipediaHafiz

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century
David Halberstam

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
E. Lynn Harris

Bret Harte

Václav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Black Hawk

From McClure's Magazine, January 1896, After a portrait by George Catlin, in the National Museum at Washington, D.C
Project Gutenberg)
Stephen W Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
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)
O. Henry

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
James Leo Herlihy

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

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
DuBose Heyward

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

courtesy of Homer Hickam
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

Geoffrey Hill

Chester B. Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Alfred Hitchcock

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

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
G. M. Hopkins

Photographer unknown
A. E. Housman

Maureen Howard, editor

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Erich Hoyt

Photo by Chris Johnson, www.earthOcean.tv
Bohumil Hrabal

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

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Jalalu'l-Din Rumi

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

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksRandall Jarrell

Sara Orne Jewett

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

Photograph by Mary Randlett
James Weldon Johnson, editor

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Chuck Jones

Photo by Alan Light, 1976 (Cropped/Wikipedia & Flickr)
Terry Jones

Chief Joseph

Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1903
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alvin M. Josephy

Jerry Bauer
James (Scholes Joyce, Robert; Litz, A. Walton (eds.))

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

Junius. Frontispiece from The British prose writers Vol. 13 (1819)
Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Franz Kafka

David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn (1922-1983)
Photographed by Thomas J. O'Halloran, May 11, 1965.
(U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Immanuel Kant

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Donald Keene, editor

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Steven Kellogg

Fanny Kelly

Fanny Kelly. Frontispiece from Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians (1871)
Hugh Kenner

Frank Kermode

Jean Kerr

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

John Maynard Keynes

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Ki鳬 Danilo

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Carole Kismaric

Henry Kissinger

Paul Klee

Heinrich von Kleist

Ivan Klíma

Kodak

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Leszek Kolakowski

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 2007
Christopher Kremmer

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Milan Kundera

Stanley I. Kutler

Brian Lamb, editor

Brain Lamb (left) being congratulated at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Langenscheidt Publishers

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Library (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Louis Leakey

Harper Lee

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

National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Charles G. Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland, circa 1853
Nicholas Lemann

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Vladimir Il§ich Lenin

Siegfried Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Mikhail Iu'Evich Lermontov

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

from Wikipedia
Craig Lesley

http://www.craiglesley.com/media.php
Primo Levi

David Lewis

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.)
Sinclair Lewis

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

Eugene Linden

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Sam Llewellyn

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Van Loon Hendrik Willem

Jim Lovell

Photo created by NASA
Lucretius

Arno鳴 Lustig

Photo by user che / Czech Wikipedia.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Leonard Maltin

Osip Mandelshtam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Ngaio Marsh

Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Maurier, Dame Du

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Evan Hunter

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Winsor McCay

1906
Tim McCreight

Robert McCrum

Carson McCullers

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

Patrick McDonnell

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
William H. McGuffey

Claude McKay

Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-105919)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

George Meredith

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

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Bruce Manning Metzger

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.)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Aruthur Miller

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