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Козьма Прутков

Portrait by L. M. Zhemchuzhnikov, A. E. Beideman and L. F. Lagorio
Константин Михайлович Станюкович

Викентий Викентьевич Вересаев

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Борис Акунин

Данте Алигьери

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Ханс Кристиан Андерсен

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Леонид Николаевич Андреев

wikimedia commons
Жан Ануй

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Аристотель

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

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Исаак Эммануилович Бабель

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

Wikipédia France
Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Samuel Beckett

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Генрих Бёлль

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Александр Александрович Блок

Jorge Luis Borges

Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

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
Raymond Buckland

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Robert Burns

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

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Джордж Гордон Байрон

Julius Caesar

public domain
Итало Кальвино

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Гай Валерий Катулл

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Susanna Clarke

Cloisters (Museum),

Photo by Marcin Wichary / Flickr.
Хулио Кортасар

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Honore Daumier

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-24610)
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Disch

Ariel Hameon
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
John William M.D. LL.D Draper

John William Draper. Frontispiece from Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy (1878)
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Александр Дюма

Edward Plunkett,Baron Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Джеральд Даррелл

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
George Wharton Edwards

Илья Григорьевич Эренбург

ushmm.org
editor Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
T. S. Eliot

Эразм Роттердамский

M. C Escher

Уильям Фолкнер

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

Deutsche Post der DDR
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Michel Foucault

St. Francis Of Assisi

Stigmatisation of St. Francis by El Greco, 1585.
Анна Франк

Wikipédia France
Виктор Франкл

Зигмунд Фрейд

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Эрих Фромм

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Brian Froud

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Neil Gaiman

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Николай Васильевич Гоголь

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

Карло Гольдони

Максим Горький

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

Jan Crawford Greenburg

Library of Congress
Ursula K. Le Guin

Гарри Гаррисон

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Max Hastings

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Heer

Генрих Гейне

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Роберт Ансон Хайнлайн

O. Henry

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

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

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
William Hogarth

Self-portrait, 1745
(Yorck Project)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Виктор Гюго

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Генрик Ибсен

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Джером Клапка Джером

Карл Густав Юнг

Eric R. Kandel

August Wieselmayer from Wien Vienna, Österreich Austria
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Кен Кизи

Омар Хайям

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Серен Кьеркегор

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Анатолий Федорович Кони

http://ru.wikipedia.org
Alan Charles Kors

Alan C. Kors, receiving the National Humanities Medal, 2005. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Станислав Лем

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library, Oxford. Photo by Laurent / Flickr.
Джек Лондон

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)
Federico Garcia Lorca

Rene Magritte

Photo credit: Lothar Wolleh
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
JOHN MASEFIELD

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Вильям Сомерсет Моэм

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

Адам Мицкевич

Credit: Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128272)
A. A. Milne

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

Elena Seibert
Andrew Murray

Владимир Владимирович Набоков

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

Gustav Schultze
Фланнери О'Коннор

Булат Шалвович Окуджава

Юрий Карлович Олеша

From Wikipedia
George Orwell

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

Ambroise PareÌ

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Милорад Павич

Gaius; Jack Lindsay (translator) Petronius

Plautus

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ян Потоцкий

wikipedia
Alexander (Philip L Barbour Pushkin, translator)

courtesy Wikipedia
George Haven Putnam

Arthur (ed.) QUILLER-COUCH

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

Александр Николаевич Радищев

wikimedia commons
Эрих Мария Ремарк

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Арман Жан дю Плесси де Ришелье

Sculpture by Francesco Schiaffino, 1748,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Эдмон Ростан

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J.K. Rowling

Шота Руставели

Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков

from Wikipedia
Мигель де Сервантес Сааведра

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

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

Elena Seibert
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери

Жан-Поль Сартр

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Friedrich von Schiller

Walter Scott

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

Wikipedia
Джордж Бернард Шоу

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Виктор Борисович Шкловский

http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/129/sarnov.htm
Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Dan Simmons

National Geographic Society

Sophocles

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

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
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Гарриет Бичер-Стоу

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Гай Светоний Транквилл

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
J. R. R. Tolkien

Татьяна Никитична Толстая

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Алексей Константинович Толстой

Public domain (Wikipedia Commons)
Алексей Николаевич Толстой

Photography (before 1946)
Jeffrey Toobin

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

from Wikipedia
Джон Апдайк

Martha Updike
Эдуард Николаевич Успенский

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Uspensky.jpg
Jr. - Kurt Vonnegut

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienOscar Wilde

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

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

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Пелем Гренвилл Вудхауз

Евгений Иванович Замятин

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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