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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Aeschylus

Aleksandr Afanasev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL

From
Wikipedia
Portrait of Amiel by Joseph Hornung, 1852.
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

©Rowena
Farid al-Din Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
St. Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Isaac Babel

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

Jerry Bauer
Iain M Banks

Tim Duncan
Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Gregory Benford

Walter Benjamin

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Boethius,

Grady Booch

Michael Cote
Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Stewart Brand

Bertolt Brecht

David Brin

By R. Feist
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett; With a new introduction by Taplin Browning, Gardner B.

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

David Dyer-Bennet
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
George Gordon Byron

James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

© D.J. Weir
Gwyneth Cravens

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Richard Dawkins

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared Diamond

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Elizabeth (T. S. Eliot) Drew

Library of Congress
John Dryden

Edmund Dulac

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alexandre Dumas

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Will Durant

Umberto Eco

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

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
T. S Eliot

Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

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

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
Frantz Fanon

Sheridan Le Fanu

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
John Fiske

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

Michel Foucault

James George Frazer

Neil Gaiman

Joel Garreau

Photo by Kenneth Garrett
Jesse James Garrett

Credit: Tim Bartel, 2007, Mainz, Germany
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
linkIvan Goncharov

Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Brian Greene

Olga Grushin

Ursula K. LeGuin

Hafiz

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
M.John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Amy Hempel

Matthew Henry

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

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

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

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)
Michio Kaku

Kalidasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Charles Kennedy

Steve Punter
Daniil Kharms

Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Rudyard Kipling

Gyula Krudy

Photo by user Misibacsi / Hungarian Wikipedia
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Laila Lalami

Photo by Sara Corwin
Comte de Lautréamont

Freiherr von Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Mikhail Lermontov

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

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C.S. Lewis

Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

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

from Wikipedia
Bjorn Lomborg

Emil Jupin
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Lucretius

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
A. T. Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Thomas Mann

Gabriel García Márquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Martial

From Wikipedia
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Charles Robert Maturin

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

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Maureen F. McHugh

H.L. Mencken

James Ingram Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
China Mieville

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
F.Max Muller

Elliott & Fry
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Edward S. Morse

From the archives of the Museum of Science, Boston
Richard Muller

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.)
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Natsume; McClellan Soseki, Edwin (trans.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Donald Norman

jnd.org
Kenzaburo Oe

Yury Olesha

From Wikipedia
George Orwell

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

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Dorothy Parker

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

John Burlinson
Milorad Pavic

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Petronius

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsRobert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Andrei Platonov

©The Random House Group
Plutarch

Edgar Allan (Introduction By Hervey Allen) Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Karl R. Popper

Roy Porter

Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Samantha Power

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Willard V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Francois Rabelais

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Kenneth Rexroth

Rainer Maria Rilke

Jean-francois Rischard

Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
James M. Robinson

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Juan Rulfo

Bertrand Russell

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

Courtesy of the author
Shot'ha Rust'haveli

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

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

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

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Andrei D. Sakharov

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Thomas C. Schelling

Photo by user Hessam Armandehi / Wikimedia Commons.
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Albertus Seba

Thomas A. Sebeok

Victor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Nevil Shute

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

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Zadie Smith

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
S. P. Somtow

S.P. Somtow
Sophocles

Robert Southey

Edmund Spenser

Art. Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Gottfried von Strassburg

Charles Stross

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tricia Sullivan

triciasullivan.co.uk
Wislawa Szymborska

Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Torquato; Fairfax Tasso, Edward (translator); Morley, Henry (editor)

wikimedia commons
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Thomas Aquinas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Jr. Tiptree, James

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Edward John Trelawny

Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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

Jeff Vandermeer

Various

Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Virgil

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

Galina Zakhoder
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Jacobo di Voragine

Detail from "Crucifixion" by Ottaviano Nelli, Chapel of the Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. Photo by Georges Jansoone / Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Edward Waite

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

Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
F. Paul Wilson

Xenophon

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

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Xueqin Cao

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Jeremy D. Zawodny

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2004, San Francisco, Calif.
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Robert Zubrin

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