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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Abigail Adams

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Henry Adams

Aeschylus

James Agee

Louisa May Alcott

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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Sherwood Anderson

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Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Stairway and rotunda, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
W. H. Auden

John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
William Bartram

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Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Susan Bassnett

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
Francis Beaumont

Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David M. Bevington

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

Ray Bradbury

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Julia Briggs

David Bromwich

Photo courtesy of David Bromwich, Department of English, Yale University.
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
Charles Brockden Brown

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Dee Brown

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
Lawrence Buell

Harvard University
Edmund Burke

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Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
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George Gordon Byron

Caesar

public domain
Truman Capote

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

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
G. K. Chesterton

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Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
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
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Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Hart Crane

David Crystal

Gregory Curtis

Photo © 2006 Wyatt McSpadden
Richard Henry Dana

Peter Davison

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
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Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
John Donne

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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Frederick Douglass

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Umberto Eco

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

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George Eliot

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T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Sir James George Frazer

Cynthia Freeland

Courtesy of the author.
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Brendan Gill

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Scott Hahn

Photo © Fanny Surjana / Flickr
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
James Hall

Patricia Hampl

John Burlinson, Nov. 9, 2007
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Geraldine Pinch

Geraldine Harris Pinch
Lucinda Hawksley

lucindahawksley.com
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Eliza Haywood

Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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Hesiod

Edward Hirsch

John Hollander

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Pope John Paul II

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Samuel Johnson

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

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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Thomas E. Woods Jr

Mises.org
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Peter Kreeft

http://www.peterkreeft.com/
Philip Larkin

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
Aldo Leopold

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Abraham Lincoln

Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Andrew Lycett

Author photo: Susan Greenhill
Jack Lynch

courtesy author
Niccolo Machiavelli

Alma Mahler-Werfel

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Philip Massinger

Engraving by J.W. Paradise: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-85331)
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Horace McCoy

Carson McCullers

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John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Arthur Miller

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

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Christian Morgenstern

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Navarre U Theological Faculty

Universidad de Navarra. Photo by user Berlin 2209 / Wikimedia Commons.
John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
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Staff of The New York Public Library

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Flannery O'Connor

Eugene O'Neill

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Ovid

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

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

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Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
David Pogue

Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ayn Rand

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

Wikipedia
Piers Paul Read

Erich Marie Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Rainer Maria Rilke

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roosevelt

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Meryle Secrest

Marion Ettlinger
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
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)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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William T. Sherman

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
David Allen Sibley

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Paul E. Sigmund

Prof. Paul Eugene Sigmund. Photo credit: Denise Applewhite, 1997 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Adam Smith

Joseph Smith Jr.

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Harriet Prescott Spofford

from Wikipedia
Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
John Steinbeck

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Laurence Sterne

Anne Stevenson

Library of Congress
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
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)
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Henry D. Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Turgenev

Courtesy of the
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Steve Turner

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
David L. Ulin

LA Times Book Review editor David Ulin
at LA Times Book Prize shortlist party, New York, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganVarious

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
David Foster Wallace

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
George Washington

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Max Weber

Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Eudora Welty

Lawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
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)
Thornton Wilder

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Edmund Wilson

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P.G. Wodehouse

Naomi Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
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