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Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Farid Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
W. H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honoré De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Antony Beevor

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Jerry Bauer
Malcolm Bradbury

M.E. Braddon

Charlotte Brontë

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
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Titus Burckhardt

Anthony Burgess

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

John le Carré

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

Charles Cumming

Neil Cooper
Richard Dawkins

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Norman Doidge

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
George Eliot

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

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
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

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Forsyth

John Fowles

Viktor E. Frankl

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Benito Perez Galdos

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Guido Gezelle

Guido Gezelle (1830-1899)
Kahlil Gibran

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

1893
Johann Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

The Warburg Institute
Ivan Goncharov

Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Graham Greene

Jacob Grimm

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

public domain image
Manly P. Hall

Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990)
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert Harris

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.E. HOUSMAN

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Wikipedia
William James

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Melanie Klein

from Wikipedia
Giuseppe Tomasi di 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
Carlo Levi

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)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Bruce M. Metzger

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.)
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Jan Morris

Harry Mulisch

Joseph Murphy

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Musil

Pablo Neruda

Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
George Orwell

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

From Wikimedia Commons
M.Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Fernando Pessoa

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato

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

Thomas De Quincey

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Rainer Maria Rilke

Carl R. Rogers

Natalie Rogers
Richard Rolle

Detail from “Religious Poems,” early 15th century; in the British Library (Cotton Ms. Faustina B. VI).
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 Cervantes

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

J. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Annemarie Schimmel

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienArthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Walter Scott

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

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Seneca

David Servan-Schreiber

servan schreiber
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Amalie Skram

Sophocles

Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
John Steinbeck

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

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Adalbert Stifter

August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Alfred Tennyson

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Anthony Trollope

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

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

Georgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Salley Vickers

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Arthur Edward Waite

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

Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith 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)
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
W.B. Yeats

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

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