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Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Stephen Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

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

Jakob Arjouni

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Machado De Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Isaac Babel

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

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

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Charles Baxter

Samuel Beckett

Antony Beevor

Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Bernhard

Wendell Berry

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Tom Bissell

Photo by Greg Martin
Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Frederic Bowles

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
John le Carre

J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Paul Celan

Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Dan Chaon

photo by Philip Chaon
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
John Cheever

Anton Chekhov

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
J. M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Robin George Collingwood

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Noel Coward

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

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Hart Crane

Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robertson Davies

Don DeLillo

James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
E. L. Doctorow

J.P. Donleavy

John Donne

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

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

David Edmonds

Charles W. (Editor) Eliot

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

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
David H. 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)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

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

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Louise Gluck

Nikolai Gogol

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

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Jorie Graham

Graham Greene

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Robert Hass

Brooks Haxton

Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
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)
Tony Hendra

Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
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
A. E. Housman

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Samuel Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Wikipedia
Randall Jarrell

Robinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
James Joyce

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

Photo © 2004 Nathaniel Justice
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Mary Karr

Jon Katz

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Patrick Kavanagh

John Keats

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Murray Kempton

Photo by Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-126477
Jack Kerouac

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Joe Klein

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
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

Di Lampedusa Giuseppe T.

Wikimedia Commons
Philip Larkin

T E Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Federico Garcia Lorca

Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
Burton G. Malkiel

Prof. Burton Gordon Malkiel. Photo by J.D. Levine/Yale (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
N. Gregory Mankiw

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
John P. Marquand

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

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy De Maupassant

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
J.D. Mcclatchy

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Thomas Mcguane

Audrey Hall
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
H.L. Mencken

James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
W. S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Bruce M. Metzger

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.)
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Steven Millhauser

Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
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)
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
John Mortimer

Paul Muldoon

Harry Mulisch

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Howard Nemerov

Pablo Neruda

Robert Nozick

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
John O'Hara

Yuri Olesha

From Wikipedia
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
A.B. Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Octavio Paz

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Samuel Pepys

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

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Elliot Perlman

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Christopher Phillips

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
W.S. Di Piero

DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert Pinsky

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

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

Plato

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

anthonypowell.org.uk
Francine Prose

Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howell Raines

Ayn Rand

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

Marilynne Robinson

Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
cervantes

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

© 2004 Lana Rys
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Leigh Schmidt

Prof. Leigh Eric Schmidt (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Paul Schneider

nina bramhall
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Karl Shapiro

Papers of Karl Shapiro, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Brigitte Lacombe
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Charles Simic

Library of Congress
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Gary Snyder

1990s
Susan Sontag

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Stephen Spender

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Wislawa Szymborska

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Dylan Thomas

Edward Thomas

Poems, 1917
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Uwe Timm

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Tomas Transtromer

Andrei Romanenko
Calvin Trillin

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ivan Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Sun Tzu

Paco Underhill

Photograph by Wyatt Counts
John Updike

Martha Updike
Paul Valery

Various

Virgil.

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

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Walt Whitman

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

C. K. Williams

Columbia University
John Williams

William Carlos Williams

Robin W. Winks

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Geoffrey Wolff

Tony Rollo
Tobias Wolff

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)
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik
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