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Paperback Pirate
Mercedes de Acosta

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Peter Alden

photo by Alison Bell
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Stephen E. Ambrose

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Maxwell Anderson

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)
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Aristophanes

Aristotle.,

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

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
David Attenborough

Shojo
W. H. Auden

Jane Austen

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

Photo by Herb Jordan (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Lauren Bacall

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

Wikipedia.
Steven Bach

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Tallulah Bankhead

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

Seamus Kearney
Ann Bannon

Photo by Kel Munger
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Mrs. Barbauld

Project Gutenberg
Pat Barker

Djuna Barnes

public domain
J.M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Bela Bartok

Bartok in 1927. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
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
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
George Baxt

James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Brendan Behan

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Bernstein Leonard

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, Nov. 1, 2008
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Robert Bolt

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Blanche Mccrary Boyd

Donna Boyd

www.donnaaball.net
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
John W. Boyer

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Barbara Taylor Bradford

Bradford Enterprises
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bradshaw Gillian

Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Georg Brandes

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Alan Brennert

Photo: Monica Schwartz
Susie Bright

Encyclopedia Britannica

Ad for Encyclopædia Britannica published May 1913 in National Geographic.
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
ANITA BROOKNER

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dale Brown

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Larry Brown

Photographed by Bruce Newman
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Edna Buchanan

Photograph by Jim Virga
Robert N. Buck

Courtesy of Richard Arthur Norton, Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Bulfinch

Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

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

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Rachel Kramer Bussel

Photo by Anya Garrett
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Gaius Julius Caesar

public domain
JAMES CAIN

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

Anonymous
Simon.: Callow

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
M. Scott Carpenter

Wikimedia Commons (Photo created by NASA)
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carré

Clayborne Carson

Courtesy of Clayborne Carson
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Constantine Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Graham Caveney

Prince of Wales Charles

White House Photo by Paul Morse (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Ann Charters

John Cheever

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. K. Chesterton

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Frederic Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Agatha Christie

Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

Laura P. Claridge

MARY HIGGINS CLARK

Eye on Books
Carl von Clausewitz

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
RICHARD COHEN

British Veterens Fencing
Wanda Coleman

BEYOND BAROQUE
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
W. Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
William Congreve

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Noel Coward

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

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Sheryl Crow

Dan Eidsmoe
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Clive CUSSLER

Carl Dahlhaus

Annemarie Dahlhaus
Clemence Dane

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35540
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

From "Revue Illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Angela Y. Davis

Annabel Davis-Goff

Photo by Sara Barrett
Dorothy Day

Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Marlene Dietrich

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Leonie. Hargrave

Ariel Hameon
E.L. Doctorow

Ivan Doig

John Donne

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

Eye on Books
H. D.

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble (ed)

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Nell Dunn

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Antonin Dvorak

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Umberto Eco

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

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

Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Erlewine

Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
George Farquhar

wikimedia commons
Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Niall Ferguson

Harvey Fierstein

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Katherine V. Forrest

from author's home page -- no credit listed
Michel Foucault

John Fowles; Photographer Fay Godwin

Dick Francis

John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles FRAZIER

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Brian Friel

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Cristina García

Norma Quintana
Norman L. Geisler

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.)
Jean Genet

Stephanie Felicite Genlis

George Gershwin

Carl Van Vechten (1937)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
John Gielgud

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
Brendan Gill

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Gail Godwin

William Godwin

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

Wikipédia France
William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Amy Goodman

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Graham Greene

George Dawes Green

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Edvard Grieg

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
A. B. Guthrie

Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Prof. Gunther von Hagens

Credit: Túrelio (Wikipedia user), 2000, Köln, Germany
John T. Halliday

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
W. C. Handy

1917 sheet music (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Robert Harris

William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Martin Heidegger

Lillian Hellman

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

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Chaim Herzog

www.president.gov.il
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Joseph Heywood

Christopher Hibbert

Jack Higgins

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Chester B. Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
James S. Hirsch

Bobbie Bush
Christopher Hitchens

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Anthony Holden

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington

Glyn Hughes

Halifax Courier
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Mark Hyman

Photograph by John Fitzpatrick
Samuel Lynn Hynes, [from old catalog]

photo: David Dobkin
Henrik Ibsen, Fjelde, Rolf (translator, forward)

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

Irving John

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
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)
Karl Jaspers

Robinson Jeffers

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

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
C. G. Jung

Immanuel Kant

George S. Kaufman

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

James Kavallines. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16773
John Keats

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Elmer Kelton

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

Jack Kerouac

Robert Kerrey

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Marijane Meaker

Marijane Meaker
Ken Kesey

Jr. Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Mary Kinzie

Star Black
William Kittredge

Raymond Meeks
Caroline Knapp

Yusef Komunyakaa

Photo by Lilithcat
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Madame de Lafayette

George Lakoff

Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Louis L'amour

The Langenscheidt Editorial Staff

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lance Larsen

Jacqui Larsen
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. [LAWRENCE OF ARABIA] LAWRENCE

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

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

Carl Van Vechten
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

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

http://www.craiglesley.com/media.php
Heather Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Robert Ludlum.

Georg Lukacs; Translation By Robert Anchor

Sidney Lumet

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 7, 1939, as Johnnie in "My heart's in the Highlands" (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103658)
Eric V. Lustbader

Edward MacDowell

From "What We Hear in Music," Anne Faulkner, 1913 (Wikipedia)
Niccolò Machiavelli

Helen MacInnes

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

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

Sarah Maclay

BEYOND BAROQUE
Rosemary Mahoney

Nikolaos Ieronymakis
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Thomas Mann

Ray Manzarek

Cristina Gehlen
Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Phillip Margolin

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Bobbie Ann Mason

Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Henri Matisse

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-103699 DLC
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Ed. McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
John McCain

Credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

IAN MCEWAN

Eamonn McCabe
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Rand McNally

Joao Cabral de Melo Neto

Marcus Guimarães
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
James Ingram Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Henry Miller

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

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Kate Millett

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Czesław Miłosz

MDCarchives
Anthony Minghella

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
Margaret Mitchell

Molière

Wikipédia France
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)
Hannah More

Undated print (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-30514)
Sir More, Saint Thomas

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
David Morrell

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Paul Muldoon

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Alfred de Musset

Wikipédia France
Walter Dean Myers

Eileen Myles

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 14, 2008, Brooklyn Book Festival
V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Napoleon Bonaparte

Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, circa 1801
Robert Nathan

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

Richard Bitting
Alexander Nehamas

Prof. Alexander Nehamas. Photo by Randall Hagadorn, 1994 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Leslea Newman

Photo by Mary Vasquez
Sir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Chuck Norris

Photo by Alan Light
Christiane Md Northrup

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Martha Craven Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Clifford Odets

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neil

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Allen Mandelbaum, Translator Ovid;

Mehmet Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
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)
Robert B. Parker

John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
James Patterson

Sharon Kay PENMAN

© William Penman, Jr.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Margot Peters

Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Plato.,

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

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Cole Porter

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-122087
Katherine Anne Porter

Roy Porter

Gerald L. Posner

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Sir Arthur; Wilson Quiller-Couch, J. Cover (EDs)

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

Racine

Wikipédia France
Craig Raine

Ayn Rand

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

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Mary Renault

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Reynolds

www.chrismsaunders.com
Matthieu Ricard

Polaroid of Matthieu Ricard taken in 1999 by Elsa Dorfman (Wikimedia)
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Robinson

Image from: Mrs. Mary Robinson: An Autobiography. London: The Grolier Society, 1900.
Lucia St. Clair Robson

photo by Doug Coulson
Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Romain Rolland

David Rosenbaum

Charles Rosen

Courtesy of Indiana University
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Anton Rubinstein

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Bertrand Russell

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

Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
marquis de Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
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Sainte-Beuve

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Camille Saint-Saens

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
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Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

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Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

Friedrich Von; translated Schiller, with an introduction and notes, By Julius A

Bernhard Schlink

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Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienArthur Schopenhauer

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Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
Robert Schumann

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Sandra Scoppettone

Sandra Scoppettone
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alcoholics Anonymous

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Desmond Seward

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Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

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Bernard Shaw

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Helen Sheehy

© 2002 Joyce Ravid
Sidney Sheldon

Mary Shelley

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Office of War Information, 1942
David Sibley

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Michelangelo Signorile

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Georges Simenon

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Neil Simon

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

Derek Thompson
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
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Edith Sitwell

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Charlotte Smith

Martin Cruz Smith

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Zadie Smith

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Susan Sontag

Diana Souhami

Robert Southey

Mickey Spillane

Roger Spiller

Dr. Roger J. Spiller, Command Historian, Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth, and Associate Professor of Military History, Combat Studies Institute, USACGSC
Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
Christina Stead

Wallace STEGNER

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
John Steinbeck

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Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

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Kzitelman
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Mark Strand

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Igor Stravinsky

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August Strindberg

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Kate Summerscale

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Anthony Swofford

John Burlinson, Feb. 22, 2008
John m. Synge

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Lalita Tademy

Library of Congress
A. Tennyson

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alexis de Tocqueville

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Charles Todd

copyright 2007 Charles Todd
L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
John Travolta

Violet Keppel Trefusis

John Burlinson
Rose Tremain

Anthony Trollope

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Scott Turow

Mark Twain

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Anne Tyler

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Various

Marie Vassiltchikov

molodguard.ru
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Gore Vidal

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Solomon Volkov

© 2003 Marianna Volkov
Voltaire

Richard Wagner

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Robert James Waller

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Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
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Minette Walters

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ROBERT PENN WARREN

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Sarah Waters

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Larry Watson

Photo by Susan Watson
Evelyn Waugh

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Alison Weir

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Peter Weiss

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Walt Whitman

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Oscar Wilde

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Tennessee Williams

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Christa Wolf

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Thomas Wolfe

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Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Virginia Woolf

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William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
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Malcolm X

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W. B. Yeats

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James Yee

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Al Aumuller / New York World-Telegram and Sun (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-117540)
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