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Douglas Adams

Andre Agassi

Chris Josefy
Dorothy Allison

Anselm

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
John Barth

Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Samuel Beckett

Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bertolt Brecht

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
Giordano Bruno

Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Orson Scott Card

Benjamin N. Cardozo

circa 1932 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-38302)
Lewis Carroll

Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Graham Chapman

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

J. M. Coetzee

Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Peter David

Kathryn Davis

Emma Dodge Hanson photgraphy.
There is no permission to reproduce.
Richard Dawkins

Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Charles (Editor-in-chief) Dennee

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

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

Owen Egerton

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007.
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Raymond Feist

Georges Seguin
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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

The Warburg Institute
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ron Hale-Evans

Photo by Marty Hale-Evans
Edith Hamilton

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S.I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Mo Hayder

Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
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)
Gilbert Highet

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

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hitchens

John Hodgman

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

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Lawrence Joseph

photo: ©2008 Charles Bernstein/PennSound
James Joyce

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

RJ Shaughnessy
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan Kundera

Par Lagerkvist

George Lakoff

Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Harper Lee

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

jannalevin.com
Jack London

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

courtesy author
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
J. D. McClatchy

Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Arthur Miller

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

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
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)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Tillie Olsen

George Orwell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Christopher Phillips

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Francine Prose

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773)
Anna Quindlen

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Tom Robbins

Charles Rosen

Courtesy of Indiana University
Edmund Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seiberg
Carl Sagan

Sappho

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

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Friedrich Schiller

John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George 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)
David Shields

Tom Collicott
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Zadie Smith

Kevin Smokler

Photo by Keely Kolmes
Dana Spiotta

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Columbia University
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
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)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Aquinas

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
J.R.R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Various

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
David Foster Wallace

Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Zhuangzi

www.iep.utm.edu
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
SLAVOJ ZIZEK

Photo by Andy Miah
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