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Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Aravind Adiga (Autor)

Mark Pringle
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kwame A. Appiah

Public-Conversations
Aurelius Augustinus

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Heinrich Böll

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

Bertolt Brecht

Frederick P. Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Zbigniew Brzezinski

White House photo, March 14, 1977 (National Archives, ARC Identifier: 174044)
Anthony Burgess

Elias Canetti

Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Rudolf Carnap

Lewis Carroll

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Richard A. Clarke

Author photograph by AFP/Corbis
Carl von Clausewitz

Paulo Coelho

Michael R. Collings

Ron Hall, Pepperdine University
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Axel Corti

Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Dahrendorf, 2003. Photo by Holger Noß / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Darwin

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

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Fjodor M. Dostojewski

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Eugen Drewermann

Photo by M. Beier / Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Umberto Eco

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

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
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
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Jonathan Franzen

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Gustav Freytag

Painting (1886-1887) by Karl Stauffer-Bern
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Rebecca Gable

(c) by Horst Friedrichs 2005
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Arno Geiger

Photo by user Gwyndon / Wikimedia Commons.
Susan George

Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Franz Grillparzer

Hans J. Chr. v Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
Jacob Grimm

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

Peter Stojanovic
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Robert Harris

Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Werner Heisenberg

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)
Jack Herer

photo by Malcolm MacKinnon
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Edgar Hilsenrath

Photo by user Spongefeld / Wikimedia Commons
Alfred Hitchcock

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

from Wikipedia
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
Ödön von Horvath

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Alexander von Humboldt

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

from Wikipedia
Samuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Franz Kafka

Robert Kagan

Claudio Vazquez
David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
John Maynard Keynes

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Ephraim Kishon

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Heinrich von Kleist

Donald E. Knuth

David Monniaux
Milan Kundera

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Stephen R. Lawhead

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Georg Chr. Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
Michael Light

Niccolo Machiavelli

Claudio Magris

Nelson Mandela

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

http://www.maa.org/students/chapter_news/ChapterNewsOct04.htm
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Gabriel García Márquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Richard Matheson

William Somerset Maugham

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

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
James A. Michener

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

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

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

Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Morus

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

Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein
Andrew Newberg

Photograph by Norman Levinson
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Barack Obama

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

F. D. Peat

fdavidpeat.com
Heinz-Otto Peitgen

from Wikipedia
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Platon

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Karl R. Popper

Roy Porter

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
Willard van Orman Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Christoph Ransmayr

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Ludwig Börne Award Ceremony, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. Photo by user dontworry / Wikimedia Commons.
Erich M. Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Reuters

Reuters Building, Fleet Street, London. Photo by Steve Cadman / Flickr.
Leni Riefenstahl

Jeremy Rifkin

Peter Rosegger

Joanne K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
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)
Donatien A. Fr. Marquis 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-Exupéry

Jerome D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jeremy Scahill

Rafik Schami

Photo by Rudolf Bauer / Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich von Schiller

Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienErwin Schrödinger

Frank Schätzing

Photo by user Chí Khang / Vietnamese Wikipedia
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Richard Sennett

Photo by Lilithcat
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Bastian Sick

Bastian Sick in April 2008 - Picture by Flominator (Florian Straub)
Johannes M. Simmel

Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Steven S. Skiena

Copyright © Prof Steven Skiena. All rights reserved.
Adam Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Oswald Spengler

Joel Spolsky

from Wikipedia
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emmanuel Todd

Author:
Legermi http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legermi
John K. Toole

Friedrich Torberg

Ilija Trojanow

Photo by Effi Schweizer / Wikimedia Commons
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Voltaire

Immanuel Wallerstein

Yale University
Günter Wallraff

Photo by Kurt Janssen, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Franz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
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)
Niklaus Wirth

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Niklaus_Wirth,_UrGU.jpg
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienVirginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Philip G. Zimbardo

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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