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Harold Abelson

Joi Ito
Ken Alder

Christopher Alexander

William Ross Ashby

Credit: Self-portrait, 1955, Stanford
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (7 September 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSimone de Beauvoir

Richard Becker

Brendan Behan

Edward Bellamy

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Max Born

Public Domain
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Fernand Braudel

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Henry Brown

Courtesy of the Portal to Texas History
http://texashistory.unt.edu/
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
John Bunyan

James Burke

Robert Burns

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

Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Herb Caen

Columbia University
Truman Capote

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

CATHER WILLA

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

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Chaucer

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

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Eleanor Clark

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

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

Nik Cohn

Ken Nahoum
Francis S. Collins

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Alistair Cooke's

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Richard Courant

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, http://owpdb.mfo.de/detail?photoID=726
David Crystal

e. e. cummings

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

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Richard Harding (1864-1916) Davis

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

Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
George Dimitrov

E.L. Doctorow

Gustave Dore

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

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Will Durant

A.S EDDINGTON

Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
James Elkins

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
R. Buckminster Fuller

Arthur Gelb

Alan Gibbons

Brendan Gill

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Heinrich Harrer

Frank Harris

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Werner Heisenberg

Ernest Hemingway

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

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
E. J. Hobsbawm

Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Andrew Hook

Alston Scott Householder

MacTutor History of Mathematics (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Householder.html)
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Jane Jacobs

Randall Jarrell

Colin Jones

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
George Gheverghese Joseph

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Hugh Kenner

Verlyn. Klinkenborg

© 2005 Lindy Smith
Donald Ervin Knuth

David Monniaux
Arthur (illus. by George Buday Koestler, Intro by Vladimir Bukovsky, translated

Pinn Hans
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
George Lakoff

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Emanuel Lasker

T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Janna Levin

jannalevin.com
Sinclair Lewis

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
H.W. Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Benoit B. Mandelbrot

http://www.maa.org/students/chapter_news/ChapterNewsOct04.htm
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Malachy Mccourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
John Miller

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
John Milton

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Christopher Morley

Jan Morris

John Mortimer

Farley Mowat

Henri Murger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Henry_Murger_in_1854.jpg
John Nash

Author of photo is Elke Wetzig.
Ogden Nash

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

Sandro Michahelles
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
F. David Peat

fdavidpeat.com
P. J. E. Peebles

Phillip James Peebles, Professor of Physics, Princeton University. Photo by Robert P. Matthews, 1995 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Henry Petroski

JEAN PIAGET

Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Andrei Platonov

©The Random House Group
EDGAR ALLAN POE

from Wikipedia
John Polkinghorne

Marcel Proust

Hilary Putnam

Photo released by Hilary Putnam, as copyright holder. See
WikipediaDavid Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Hubert Reeves

Original source:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Reeves.jpg
Photographie d'Hubert Reeves prise par l'utilisateur Gingko le 5 juin 2004
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Kenneth Roberts

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

Joyce Ravid
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Walter Rudin

Wikipedia
Bertrand Russell

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

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

Elena Seibert
marquis de Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pierre Salinger

U.S. Senate Historical Office
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)
Robert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jean Paul Sartre

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Stephen H. Schneider

Flickr user Joi
Erwin Schrödinger

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Meryle Secrest

Marion Ettlinger
Samuel Shellabarger

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Cornelia Otis Skinner

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

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

New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divison, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-109699
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Oswald Spengler

Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Vincent (Ed.) Starrett

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

c. 1885
Henry Stommel

Courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives
Eugene Sue

wikimedia commons
Leonard Susskind

Wikipedia
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dylan Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
the editors of Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Nikolai Tolstoy

Count Nikolai Tolstoy (left) with Kyrill of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav, 1996.
John Kennedy Toole

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various authors

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Voltaire

David Foster Wallace

Steven Weinberg

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHermann Weyl

Norbert Wiener

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
J.H. Wilkinson

MacTutor History of Mathematics (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Wilkinson.html)
Edmund Wilson

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

J.D. Sloan
Niklaus Wirth

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niklaus_Wirth,_UrGU.jpg
P.G. Wodehouse

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Ronald. Wright

Nick Wiebe
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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