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Douglas Adams

Aeschylus

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Stephen Ambrose

H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

Aristotle

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo


Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Heinrich Boll

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


Jorge Luis Borges

Robert H. Bork

Wikipedia (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Mark Bowden

Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Geraldine Brooks

John Seely Brown

Joi Ito
Michelle Brown

Nancy Bush

Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Eric Carle

Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole at Ambassador Baptist Christian School, Washington D.C., 2007. Detail from White House photo by David Bohrer.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
J Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Robert J. Dole

(Wikipedia)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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


Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Johanna Drucker


Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
T. S. Eliot

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Fox (3)
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Robert Frost

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

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

Bernard Goldberg

Joyce Esersky Goldstein

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
James Hall

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Friedrich A. von Hayek

Henry Hazlitt

Wikipedia
Homer

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. E. Housman

Henrik Ibsen

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

Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
James Joyce

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

Harvey Karp

navy.mil
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Rudyard Kipling

Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueBernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Walter Lippmann

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)

David Liss

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Martin Luther

Niccolo Machiavelli

Deborah Madison


Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Marguerite d' Angoulême

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Rand McNally

James A. Michener

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)
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Moxon

Joseph Moxon from 1896 Reprint of Mechanick Exercises ...
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Geoffrey Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Thomas Paine

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

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Steven Raichlen

Library of Congress
Ayn Rand

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

The Heart Truth
Edwin Arlington Robinson

Detail of a group portrait at Camp Cobbossee in West Gardiner, Maine, in August, 1897.
J. K. Rowling


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
José. Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Thomas C. Schelling

Photo by user Hessam Armandehi / Wikimedia Commons.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950.

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Michael Simon

http://www.michaelsimon.info
Adam Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Aquinas Thomas, Saint

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons

J. R. R. Tolkien


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)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sunzi

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Kurt Vonnegut

Carl Weber

David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Jack Welch

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
John Wesley

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

Thomas Wharton
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W. B. Yeats

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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