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Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.

António Aleixo

Desenho de Tóssan
José de Alencar

from Wikipedia
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jorge Amado

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Photo by user UNiesert / Wikimedia Commons
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andressen

Image by Carlos Botelho / Wikimedia Commons
Leonid Andreyev

wikimedia commons
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Augustine of Hippo

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
David P. Barash

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
João Barrento

Lima Barreto

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_Barreto
J.M. Barrie

Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Susan Bassnett

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
L.Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Simone de Beauvoir

Virginia] Bell [Woolf, Quentin

Thomas Bernhard

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Boccaccio

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

Credit: Hermínio Oliveira/Agência Brasil, 2003
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Britannica

Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica published May 1913 in National Geographic.
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Robert Cowen
Leo Buscaglia

MDCarchives
Donald Byrd

Gordon Joly, December 26, 2007
Lord George Gordon Byron

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Camoes

Wikimedia Commons
Albert camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Lewis Carroll

Olavo de Carvalho

Roxane Andrade
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bernal Diaz

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Anton Chekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
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)
Corneille

Wikipédia France
Fernando Garcia de Cortazar

Miguel A. Monjas
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Euclides da Cunha

Euclides da Cunha (1866—1909)
Caricature by Raul Pederneiras, 1903
(Wikipedia)
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Charles Darwin

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Alfred Dreyfus

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-17080)
Alexandre Dumas

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
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)
George Eliot

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

Southworth & Hawes
Florbela Espanca

John Evelyn

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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


E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Dick Francis

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Sérgio Freitas

Sérgio Freitas
Robertson Frizero

Robertson Frizero
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

René Girard

Vicq
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gógol

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

Gary Goldschneider

Nadine; et alli Gordimer

Máximo Gorki

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

Judah Passow
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Alasdair Gray

Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Jacob Grimm

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

Wikipedia
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
E.J. Hobsbawm

Homer

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Henry James

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Sara Orne Jewett

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

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Joyce

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

John Keats

Thomas a Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Rudyard Kipling

Heinrich von Kleist

Milan KUndera

Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

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

Wikimedia Commons
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

from Wikipedia
Livy

from Wikipedia
Monteiro Lobato

Credit: André Koehne, 2006
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

Georg Lukács

Niccolo Machiavelli

Irshad Manji

Photo: Raquel Evita Saraswati
Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Guy de Maupassant

Frank McCourt

Cecília Meireles

official portrait
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Jack Miles

Columbia University
John Milton

Moliére

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Vinicius de Moraes

Caricature of Vinicius de Moraes by André Koehne.
Sir Thomas More, Saint

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
George Orwell

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

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Sara Paretsky

Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Rubem Penz

Rubem Penz
Fernando Pessoa

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Francine Prose

Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Eça de Queiros

Thomas De Quincey

Mario Quintana

Mario Quintana (seated). Marcusrg, November 4, 2007.
Carlos Reis

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Monique Revillion

Geração books
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
W. H. D. Rouse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Juan Rulfo

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine De (translated By Katherine Woods ) Saint-Exupéry

José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
J. P. Sartre

Jean P. Sasson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007

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)
Irwin Shaw

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
JEAN STEWART (TRANSLATOR) GEORGES SIMENON

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

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Alfonsina Storni

Monumento a Alfonsina Storni Playa La Perla, Mar del Plata. Buenos Aires Argentina Enero 2006 Autor de la fotografía: Martín Gardeazabal
Ariano Suassuna

Wilson Dias/Agência Brasil
Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Visconde de Taunay

pt.wikipedia
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry David Thoreau

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Photo by André Karwath / Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Vários

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Luis Fernando Verissimo

Marcello Casal Jr./ABr
Gil Vicente

Wikimedia Commons
Voltaire

James Walker

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
H.G. Wells

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

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

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

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

Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Cao Xueqin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
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