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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Aristotle

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

©Rowena
Honore de Balzac

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John Banville

Jerry Bauer
William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Ray Bradbury

Andre Breton

Sir Thomas Browne

Mikhail Afanas'evich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
G.K. Chesterton

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

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

from Wikipedia
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

Statue in front of the Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by
Andreas Tille.
Max Frisch

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

Wikipedia
William Golding

Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Franz Kafka

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Milan Kundera

Primo Levi

Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Lucretius

Harry Matthews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
JUDITH MERRILL

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
Saint Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Marco Polo

Francois Rabelais

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Steven Runciman

Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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