donutage's authors: 474 authors | 279 with pictures | 195 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Henry Adams

Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
A. R. Ammons

Jean Anderson (ed.)

Rudy Muller
Sherwood Anderson

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

Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine


Jane Austen

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

Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel
Lester Bangs

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Sebastian Barry

Roland Barthes

John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Georg Büchner

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin

Samuel Beckett

Brendan Behan

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
W.E.B. Du Bois

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Malcolm Bradbury (gen. ed.)

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Bertolt Brecht

Charles Brockden Brown

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

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

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Wilhelm Busch

Selfportrait (1894)
William Byrd

from Wikipedia
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Rudolf Carnap

Lewis Carroll

Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Andrei Codrescu (ed.)

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Coover

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Hart Crane

E. E. Cummings

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

Jacques Derrida

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Chris DiBona (ed.)

Photo by Flickr membe etech (2005)
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Stephen Dobyns

John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia

Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Bust of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Havixbeck, Germany. Photo by Marc Ryckaert / Wikimedia Commons.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
John Dryden

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

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


T. S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
M. C. Escher

Euripides

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Ernest Fenollosa

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph

Brian Friel

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

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of Congress
Neil Gaiman

William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (ed.)

Harvard University
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Thom Gunn

Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

William Heath (ed.)

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

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
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
E. T. A. Hoffmann

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

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Homer

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

Nick Hornby

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)
Eugene Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox

Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Johnson

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

James Joyce

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

Immanuel Kant

Patrick Kavanagh

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886

Hugh Kenner

Jack Kerouac

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Thomas Kinsella (trans.)

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Heinrich von Kleist

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
James Legge (trans.)

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
Aldo Leopold

Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Daniel J. Levitin


Wyndham Lewis

Susan Herrmann Loomis

Robert Lowell

Martin Luther

Jean François Lyotard

Niccolò Machiavelli

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton

Scott McCloud

Carson McCullers

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Marshall McLuhan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Mike Mignola

Credit: SolGrundy (Flickr user), 2006
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Stuart Mill

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


Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
George Moore


Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
St. Thomas More

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

Grant Morrison

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

http://www.useit.com/jakob/photos/

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

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

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

Christiane Paul at Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Milorad Pavic

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter


Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger

Thomas Pynchon

Willard V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Francois Rabelais

Eric S. Raymond

Photo credit: Russ Nelson , June 3, 2005
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Phil Rizzuto

(
left) The 1949 New York Yankees celebrate their World Series victory: Image ©
ÖNB/WienTheodore Roethke

Bertrand Russell

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

Photo courtesy: Wayne Alan Harold
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
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)
Tom Siddell

Tom Siddell, UK webComix Thing 2007, London. Photo by Adam Hodgson / Flickr.
Sir Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Spike

Chris Adams, "Yamara"
Gertrude Stein

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

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

taleswapper

Laurence Sterne

Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump

Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
David Straker

Painting by Heledd Straker, 2007
John Millington Synge

From Wikipedia
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J.R.R. Tolkien

Jean Toomer

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

Garry B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lewis Turco

Mac Photobooth/Lewis Turco
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia
Chris Ware

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Booker T. Washington

1911 photograph (cropped)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Evelyn Waugh

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

David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
H. G. Wells

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

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Judy Wicks

Thornton Wilder

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Tennessee Williams

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

Edmund Wilson

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

Courtesy Kenneth Fields
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienDouglas Wolk

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikipedia)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jeffrey Zeldman

Photo by Carrie Bickner
Help/FAQs |
About |
Privacy/Terms |
Blog |
Contact |
APIs |
WikiThing |
Common Knowledge |
47,009,464 books!
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc.
| static: /