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Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Agatston

Edward Albee

Lousia May Alcott

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William L. Andrews, ed.

Ivo Andric

Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

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)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
David Auburn

Columbia University
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Jane Austen

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

Source: US President's Council on < br> Physical Fitness and Sports
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Stephanie Barron

Dave Barry

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Francis Beaumont

Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

the Venerable Bede, Saint

Gioconda Belli

Photo by Jorge Mejía peralta / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Saul Bellow

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Stephen Vincent Benét

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

Thomas Berger

Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Sidney Blumenthal

Photo by Larry D. Moore (2006) (Wikimedia Commons)
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jean Shinoda Bolen

Joan Borysenko

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Hamish Bowles

© Pascal Chevallier
Paul Bowles

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Richard Brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Bertolt Brecht

Jimmy Breslin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
André Breton

Anne Brontë

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Seely Brown

Joi Ito
Michael L. Brown

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.)
Tina Brown

Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
James MacGregor Burns

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

William H. Calvin

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Truman Capote

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

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Baldassarre Castiglione, conte

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Benvenuto Cellini

George Chapman

wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Ellen Chesler

Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Arthur Charles Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
William Congreve

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Bob Costas

President George W. Bush speaks with Bob Costas of NBC Sports during an interview Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, while attending the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. White House photo by Eric Draper
(whitehouse.gov)
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
stephen crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
David Crystal

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Barry Cunliffe

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Richard Henry Dana

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Thomas Daschle

U. S. Senate Historical Office
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

Don DeLillo

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
P.C. Doherty

J. P. Donleavy

John Donne

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 30, 1932 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52713)
John Dryden

Marcel Duchamp

Leon Hartt, Marcel Duchamp (center), and Mrs. Hartt: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-63273)
Eamon Duffy

Alexandre Dumas

Will Durant

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Charles Alexander Eastman

From "AMONG THE SIOUX
A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas," Creswell, 1906
(Project Gutenberg)
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

Joseph J. Ellis

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

Southworth & Hawes
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
von Eschenbach Wolfram

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Philip José. Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

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

Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Edna Ferber

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

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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)
Gustave Flaubert

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer, Sir

Charles Frazier

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
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
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Hamlin Garland

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

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Barbara Garson

Barbara Garson (right) with Jeremy Brecher and Carola Reintjas at World Social Forum 3, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003. (courtesy of
ZNet)
Jean Genet

Kahlil Gibran

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

1893
Nikki Giovanni

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
John Gower

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
C. H. Grandgent

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

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Michael Gruber

Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Edith Hamilton

Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Carolyn Hart

Library of Congress
Gary Hart

Moss Hart

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Václav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Chris Hedges

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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

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

Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson, on left. Guy MacPherson, 2007.
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Robert Herrick

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)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Tony Hillerman

James Hilton

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

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
E. J. Hobsbawm

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Anthony Holden

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
W. H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

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

Wikipédia France
Ibsen Henrik

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Brian Jacques

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

John Burlinson
Michael Jecks

Jerome K. Jerome

of Arc Joan, Saint

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

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

Library of Congress
Terry Jones

Ben Jonson

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. G. Jung, ed.

Jeffrey Kacirk

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Franz Kafka

John Keats

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Thomas a Kempis

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Jerome Kern

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

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Raymond Khoury

Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
W. P. Kinsella

Henry Kissinger

Joe (Anonymous) Klein

Ivan Klíma

Halvdan Koht

Halvdan Koht. 27 October 1937. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division (digital ID hec.23519). Wikimedia Commons.
Ted Kooser

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
Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
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
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
V.I. Lenin

Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Aimee Liu

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Frank Loesser

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)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert Lowell

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Rosemary Mahoney

Nikolaos Ieronymakis
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Daphne Du Maurier, Dame

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Ian MacDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Emma McLaughlin

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W.S. Merwin, trans.

(c) Matthew Schwart
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Cesar Millan

Alan Weissman
Arthur Miller

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

MDCarchives
Giles Milton

John Milton

Anchee Min

Molière

Wikipédia France
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
of Monmouth Geoffrey, Bishop of St. Asaph

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris, trans.

From Wikipedia
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Bharati Mukherjee

Embassy of the United States/Israel (Distinguished Speaker Series)
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anaïs Nin

Queen Noor

Photo by Steve Jurvetson (Flickr/Cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Philip Norman

Jessica Norman
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Julian of Norwich

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery Oconnor

Sharon Olds

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
R. R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Allison Pearson

Jerry Bauer
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
ed. Jaroslav Pelikan

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Thomas J. Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Mary Bray Pipher

de Pisan Christine

from Wikipedia
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Titus Maccius. [from old catalog] Plautus

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Pamela Boyer Porter

Emily Post

1912 photograph
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101761)
Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Julie Powell

unknown
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Helen Prejean

Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Anna Quindlen

François Rabelais

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienCokie Roberts

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Detail of a group portrait at Camp Cobbossee in West Gardiner, Maine, in August, 1897.
Richard Rolle, of Hampole

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

Columbia University
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Norman MacLean, ed.

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
W.H.D. Rouse, trans.

J. K. Rowling

Steven Runciman, Sir

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)
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J. D. Salinger

Robert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jean Paul Sartre

trans. Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Charles Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Walter Scott

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

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Amy Sedaris

Maurice Sendak

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtAnne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Photograph dated Dec. 12, 1938
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120969)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James S. Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Margery Sharp

Bernard Shaw

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

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

Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Shel Silverstein

Neil Simon

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1966 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121470)
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Jane Smiley, preface

Elena Seibert
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Gary Snyder

1990s
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Stephen Sondheim

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

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
John Steinbeck

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

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Garth Stein

Andrea Stein
Gertrude Stein

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
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)
von Strassburg Gottfried

August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
William Graham Sumner

Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Joseph Telushkin

Stephen Z. Friedgood
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

William Makepeace Thackeray

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