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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826)
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
(Wikipedia)
Aleksandr Nikolaevic Afanas'ev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Kingsley Amis

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

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Tallulah Bankhead

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

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
H. E Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Simone De Beauvoir

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Lucius Beebe

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
eet.al. Ingmar Bergman

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Anthony Burgess

Karel Capek

John Le Carre

Jim Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

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

G.K. Chesterton

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Arthur Charles Clarke

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

from Wikipedia
Gordon Cooper

Wikimedia Commons (Photo created by NASA)
David Crystal

George A Custer

General George A Custer, from a wartime photograph.
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Denis Diderot

John G. Diefenbaker

Duncan Cameron (1958)
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
J. P Donleavy

F.M. Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Allen Welsh Dulles

Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Gerald Durrell

George Eliot

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

John Evelyn

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)
Ian Fleming

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Charles Fort

Wikipedia
James Anthony Froude

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
W.S. Gilbert

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

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

Tom Walters,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

Maxim Gorky

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

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Graham Greene

A.S. Griboedov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128269)
Bros. Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

wikipedia
Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Piet Hein

Bust of Piet Hein located in Farum
O Henry

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

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Wallace Irwin

Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Storm Jameson

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

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Samuel Johnson

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
James Joyce

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

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Mary H Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
John Knox

Jerzy Kosinski

Zofja Kossak-Szczucka

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

wikipedia
Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski

Credit: Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128262)
Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Maurice Leblanc

Wikipédia France
Fran. Lebowitz

Credit: Christopher Peterson, 2007
Mikhail IUrevich Lermontov

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

Niccolo Machiavelli

Shirley MacLaine

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Zedong Mao

from Wikipedia
W Somerset Maugham

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

Andre Maurois

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
John T. McCutcheon

John T. McCutcheon (right) with colleague George Ade, about 1894 or 1895. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James a. Michener

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

Credit: Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128272)
A. A. Milne

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein, Viscount

John Mortimer

Farley Mowat

Edna O'Brien

Frederick O'Brien

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Edward A. Salisbury Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-70219)
(cropped)
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

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

James Parton

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

G88keeper
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Hugh Prather

Gayle Prather
Boleslaw Prus

wikimedia commons
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

François Rabelais

Dan Rather

Photo by Dave Winer (Flickr/Cropped for Wikipedia)
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Scott Rice

Photo by Richard B. Ressman
Tom Robbins

James Rogan

U.S. House of Representatives Historical Office
Bertrand Russell

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

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
A. Cort Sinnes

Photo by Brooke Sinnes
Juliusz Slowacki

Image via Wikipedia
Adam Smith

Thorne Smith

Charmaine Solomon

Rodney Weidland
Sophocles

Stephen Spender

Leopold Staff

Image via Wikipedia
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Paul Theroux

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
A.N. Tol'stoj

Photography (before 1946)
Leo Tolstoy, graf

public domain
Anthony Trollope

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Peter Ustinov

Various authors

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Andrzej Wajda

Melchior Wankowicz

Author unknown
Alec Waugh

Daniel Webb

Alexander Wetmore

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-26922)
(cropped)
Kazimierz Wierzynski

Kazimierz Wierzyński, anonymous 1928
Oscar Wilde

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Charles Williams

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edmund Wilson

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

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Leonard Woolley

Philip Wylie

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118224
Stanislaw Wyspianski

Detail from the Stanisław Wyspiański Monument, Cracow, Poland. Photo by user Rj1979 / Wikimedia Commons.
Edward Young

Edward Young, Poet (1683-1765), Wkimedia Commons
Detail of Illustration from Works of the English Poets with prefaces
Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson. 68 vols. Vol. 15 (1779)
Stefan Zeromski

Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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