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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Theodor W. Adorno

Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Brian Wilson Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Aristotle

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Agrippa d'Aubigné

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

Jane Austen

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

Ingeborg Bachmann

M.M. Bakhtin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
J. M. Barrie

Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Walter Benjamin

Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Henri Bergson

Maurice Blanchot

Heinrich Böll

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

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Nicolas Boileau
Musée national du Château de Versailles, France.
Bertolt Brecht

André Breton

Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Thomas Bulfinch

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Michel Butor

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Lewis Carroll

Bartolomé de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Francois-René de Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
Anton Chekhov

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

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Kurt Cobain

P.B. Rage, 1992
Jean Cocteau

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

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
David Cronenberg

E.E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Richard Dawkins

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

August William Derleth

Jacques Derrida

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

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

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Walt Disney

Tahar Djaout

Tahar Djaout, 1980. Photo by Michel-georges bernard / Wikimedia Commons.
Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Joachim Du Bellay

Wikipédia France
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Neil Gaiman

Théophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Genet

William Gibson

André Gide

1893
René Girard

Vicq
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Jim Grimsley

Emory University
David Halperin

Courtesy of David Halperin
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

George Herriman

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

Langston Hughes

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

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Eugène Ionesco

Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
James Joyce

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

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Michio Kaku

Immanuel Kant

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Donald Keene, ed.

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Helga Königsdorf

Photo by Gabriele Senft (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-1125-309)
Wayne Koestenbaum

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Jacques Lacan

Choderlos de Laclos

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

Lautréamont

David Michael Levin, ed.

Primo Levi

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Image from Villiers de l'Isle Adam; his life and works (1894) by Robert Du Pontavice de Heussey
Federico García Lorca

Guillaume de Lorris

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Georg Lukács

Auguste and Louis Lumière

Jean-François Lyotard

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Thomas Mann

Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Guy de Maupassant

Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
China Mieville

Octave Mirbeau

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Molière

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Montesquieu.

Wikipédia France
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Grant Morrison

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Flannery O'Connor

George Orwell

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

Wikipedia
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
August von Platen

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Katherine Anne Porter

Jean Potocki

wikipedia
Antoine-François Prévost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

François Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Piers Paul Read

Paul Ricoeur

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienGraham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
François de la Rochefoucauld

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

Photo by user lotu5 / Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Rudy Rucker, ed.

Rudy Rucker
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jean-Paul Sartre

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Dan Savage

Harold Schechter

Photographed by Bela Borsodi
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienCharles Schultz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Robert Schumann

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Maurice Scève

Portrait from the 1544 edition of "Délie"
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Claude Simon

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
K. M. Soehnlein

Photo by Jake Torrens
Philippe Sollers

Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Art Spiegelman, ed.

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Tacitus

J.R.R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Michel Tournier

Edward Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Sun Tzu

Paul Valéry

Paul Verlaine

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

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
François Villon

Virgil

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

David Foster Wallace

Chris Ware

John Waters

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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