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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Conrad Aiken (Ed.)

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christiaan Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Apuleius - Robert Graves (translator)

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Frank Martinus Arion

Photo by user We El / Wikimedia Commons.
Aristotle (edited with prefatory notes by Justin D. Kaplan) (Translated U Ross)

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
Machado De Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer W.H. Auden

Augustine

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J L Austin

Alan Ayckbourn

copyright: Alan Ayckbourn
A.J. Ayer

Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
R.M. Ballantyne

wikipedia
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

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

John Barth

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Brendan Behan

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

R. D Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Boethius (Translated by V E. Watts)

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Godfried Bomans

Edward De Bono

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

A.L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint

Engraving by Auguste Hüssener (1789-1877)
James Boswell

Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcom Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Frederica Bremer

Martin Bril

From Wikipedia. This image was originally posted to Flickr by roel1943 at http://flickr.com/photos/76672458@N00/309048020
Andre Philippus Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carry van Bruggen

Unknown photographer, c. 1911
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
T. Bullfinch

Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

John Burgess Wilson

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Donn Byrne

George Gordon Lord Byron

James M. Cain

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

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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

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

John Le Carré

Lewis Carroll

Rachel L. Carson

from Wikipedia
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

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

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Chekhov

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
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
Agatha Christie

David Christie-Murray

David Christie Murray. Photo by Thomas Fatt. Frontispiece to The making of a novelist, an experiment in autobiography (1894).
Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Tom Clancy

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eye on Books
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jonathan Coe

Paulo Coelho

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)
Colette

from Wikipedia
John Collier

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Duff Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frederick C. Copleston

Patricia Cornwell

Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Norman Cousins

William Cowper

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
George Crabbe

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
A.J. Cronin

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

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

Michael Cunningham

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

Erich von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Richard Dawkins

Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Don Delillo

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
J P Donleavy

John Donne

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

Paul Gustave Doré

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

Gerald Durrell

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)
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alexander Eliot

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Marcellus Emants

Drawing by H.J. Haverman (1857-1928)
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Desiderius Erasmus

Viktor Jerofejev

www.everyfoto.com
M.C. Escher

Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
William Faulkner et al

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Stanley Fish

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

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

Ian Fleming

John Fletcher

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Ford Maddox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
C. S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Forsyth

Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Clare Francis

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Dick Francis

Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sir James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Max Frisch

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

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
J.K. Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
Alex Garland

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Jean Genet

Andre Gide

1893
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Susan Glaspell

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

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

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E H Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
I.A. Gontsjarow

Pancho Gonzales

Nadine Gordimer

Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Henry Green

Jonathon Green

n/a
Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula Le Guin

Thom Gunn

Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Marion Hargrove

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

Courtesy of Oxford University Press
Bret Harte

Dorothy Eagle Compiled and Edited by Sir Paul Harvey Revised By

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Paul Hazard

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-16572)
(cropped)
Friedrich Heer

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
A.F.Th. van der Heijden

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)
O. Henry

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Robert Herrick

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

Hildebrand

Engraving of N. Beets (Hildebrand) by Grebner/Lange
James Hilton

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

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Winnifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaHenrik Ibsen et.al.

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksKarl Jaspers

Samuel Johnson

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

Marion Ettlinger
Neil Jordan

Photo by Franz Richter
James Joyce

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

Juvenal - Translated with an introduction and notes by Peter Green

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

Kahnweiler Daniel

MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Heinrich von Kleist

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Leszek Kolakowski

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 2007
Jerzy Kosinski

Tim Krabbé

Kravchenko Victor

Victor Kravchenko, 8 April 1949.
Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien Peter Kropotkin

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

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Choderlos de Laclos

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

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Harold Lamb

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

Wikimedia Commons
Hubert Lampo

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Stephen Leacock

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

wikimedia commons
F.R. Leavis

(transl.) James Legge

Engraving from the portrait by J.E. Christie.
Siegfried Lenze

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
M. IU Lermontov

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Primo Levi

Claude Levi-Strauss

Robert Frost introduc. by C Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C.S. Lewis

Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Norah Lofts

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lucian of Samosata ( Paul Turner Translator)

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Robert Ludlum

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Niccolo Machiavelli

Compton Mackenzie

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (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)
Nagieb / Naguib Mahfoez / Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Marlowe

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

Ngaio Marsh

A.E.W. Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daphne Du Maurier

Andre Maurois

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

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
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
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Alister McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Marshall McLuhan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
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)
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
John Stuart Mill

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

Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles De Secondat Montesquieu, Baron De

Wikipédia France
Field Marshall Montgomery

Michael Moorcock (editor)

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
George Moore

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
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)
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
John Mortimer

Alexander P.D. Mourelatos

Prosper Merimee

Wikipédia France
Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Axel Munthe

Public domain
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Alfred Musset

Wikipédia France
Nabokov Vladimir

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

John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Harold Nicolson

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

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Saskia Noort

Kathleen Thompson Norris

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID agc.7a10214. Author Arnold Genthe (1869-1942)
Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe; Translator-John Nathan

Jacques Offenbach

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Liam O'Flaherty

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

Edwin de Graaf
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Samuel Pepys

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gaius Petronius Translated by Jack Lindsay

Jean Piaget

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

©The Random House Group
T. Maccius Plautus

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
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Alexander Pope

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

Laurens Van Der Post

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Everhardus Johannes Potgieter.
Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

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Alexander S. Poesjkin

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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)
Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas

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Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
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Rembrandt

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Jerry Bauer
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Paul Ricoeur

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud; Preface de Paul Claudel

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Charles Rosen

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Juan Rulfo

Salman Rushdie

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Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
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Edward Sapir, age 28, Chicago, IL. Frontispiece from The collected works of Edward Sapir (1900) Volume 3
José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Arthur van Schendel

Photograph by Willem Witsen (1860-1923)
Annie M.G. Schmidt

Arthur Schopenhauer

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W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Sir Ernest Shackleton

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William Shakespeare

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Lewis Thomas

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Swarthmore College.
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Robert Penn Warren

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Jean Webster

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Franz Werfel

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)
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