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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kim Addonizio

Photographed by Robert Specter
Rafael Alberti

Sherman Alexie

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jorge Amado

Yehuda Amichai

Israel Post
A. R. Ammons

Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
W.H. Auden

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Ellen Bass

Janet Bryer
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Walter Benjamin

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Jorge Luis Borges

Kay Boyle

Richard Brautigan

Geraldine Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks

MDCarchives
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
Lewis Buzbee

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Ann Castillo

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Willa Cather

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

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Lucille Clifton

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Robert. CREELEY

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Jordan Davis

Photo by Jordan Davis
Lydia Davis

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
William Dietrich

Reader's Digest Editors

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

Ivan Doig

John Donne

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

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

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
John DUNNING

Katie Dunning
Will Durant

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)

George Eliot

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

Desiderius Erasmus

Martin Espada

Courtesy of Martin Espada.
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
R. Todd Felton

Betsy Archer
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Dick Francis

Anne frank

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Jack Gilbert

Julio Granda
Louise Gluck

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Joyce Esersky Goldstein

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
Noah Eli Gordon

Courtesy of Colorado Poets Center
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Barbara Guest

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Allan Gurganus

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Robert Hass

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Ernest Hemingway

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

John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
John Hollander

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Karen Horney

1938 photograph (Wikipedia Commons)
Sue Hubbell

Robert Giard
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
James Joyce

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

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Jon Katz

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Diana Kennedy

Ken Kesey

Daniil Kharms

Jeff Kinney

Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
William Kittredge

Raymond Meeks
Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Ted Kooser

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Milan Kundera

James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Anne Lamott

Philip Larkin

Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Federico Garcia Lorca

Niccolo Machiavelli

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mao Tsetung

from Wikipedia
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Russell Martin

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
J. D. Mcclatchy

Scott Mccloud

Rand McNally and Company

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Rigoberta Menchu

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
John Miedema

Arthur Miller

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)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Eugene Mirman

Sub Pop Records
Molière

Wikipédia France
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Bill Moyers

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Eileen Myles

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 14, 2008, Brooklyn Book Festival
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8
Caroline Myss

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Pablo Neruda

Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
D. Nurkse

Photo © 2004 Peggy Eliot
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Eugene O'Neill

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

R. R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Dorothy Parker

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

Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Fernando Pessoa

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Robert Pirsig

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

Plato

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

michaelpollan.com
Alexander (Edited By M. H. Abrams) Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Jean Baptiste Racine

Wikipédia France
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Kenneth Rexroth

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Theodore Roethke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Miguel De Cervantes

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

M. Biedrzycki
J. D. Salinger

Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Friedrich; Passage Schiller, Charles E. (translator) Von

Cory Schreiber

Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Gail Sheehy

Rupert Sheldrake

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Charles Simic

Library of Congress
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Floyd Skloot

Photo by Sheryl H. Eldridge, Newport (Oregon) Public Library
Rick Smolan

Robert Scoble
Sophocles

Stephen Spender

Gertrude Stein

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Wislawa Szymborska

Kazuaki Tanahashi

Photo by ottmarliebert.com / Flickr.
Lord Tennyson Alfred

Henry David Thoreau

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

public domain
Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.org
Lewis Turco

Mac Photobooth/Lewis Turco
Robert M. Utley

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

Various

Lope de Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Edmund White

William Allen White

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-37609)
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Tennessee Williams

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Charles Wright

eralon
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Louis Zukofsky

Photo of Zukofsky alone, by Elsa Dorfman
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