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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner

Wendell Berry


Ray Bradbury

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
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Robert Burns

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

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

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)

Agatha Christie

David Crystal

Robertson Davies

Percy Dearmer

http://copies.anglicansonline.org/churchtimes/990903/feat.htm
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
John Donne

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

From Wikipedia
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Anne Emily, and Charlotte Bronte

Mounir A. Farah

Library of Congress

William Faulkner

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
John Fox

John Fox (3)

Robert Frost

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

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Nikolai Gogol

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

John Guy

Author's website
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
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)
Robert Herrick

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
James Hogg

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
A. J. Jacobs

Jerome Jerome

James Joyce

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

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Franz Kafka

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Ken Kesey

Dick King-Smith

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

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
Daniel J. Levitin

David H. Levy

JPL

C. S. Lewis

Norah Lofts

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

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

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Martin Luther

Patricia Maclachlan

Library of Congress
Ian MacLaren

E. Goldensky (photographer) / G. H. Goudiss
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum


Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Arthur Miller

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Lucy Maud Montgomery

wikipedia

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Flannery O'Connor

George Orwell

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

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Ron Paul

U.S. House of Representatives Photo
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pirsig

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Jane Porter

Jane Porter (1776-1850) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHugh Prather

Gayle Prather
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
James Whitcomb Riley

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

Edward Rutherfurd

Carl Sagan


J.D. Salinger

Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Sir Walter Scott

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

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


John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.

Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

P. L. Travers

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various


Kurt Vonnegut

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
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)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Thornton Wilder

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

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

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Butler Yeats

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

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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