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Edward Albee

Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
J. L. Austin

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
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
Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Bevington

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
William, Blake

Thomas Phillips
Chana Bloch

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Bertolt Brecht

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 Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Sir Thomas Browne

John Seely Brown

Joi Ito
Pearl S. Buck

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Jean Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
John LeCarre

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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
J.M. Coetzee

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
David Crystal

David Damrosch

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Jacques Derrida

Kiran Desai

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
John Donne

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
John Dryden

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Desiderius Erasmus

Euripides

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Stanley Eugene Fish

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
Michel Foucault

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Max Frisch

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
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Henry Louis Gates Jr

Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
George Gissing

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

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Brian Greene

Allan Gurganus

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney, trans.

Martin, Heidegger

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Ernest Hemingway

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

Beth Henley with Ron Rash
at the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGeorge Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Christopher Hill

E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A. M. Homes

Paul Hoover

Photograph by Maxine Chernoff.
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Henrik Ibsen

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
June. Jordan

James (Introduction By Harry Levin) Joyce

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

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Binnie Kirshenbaum

Courtesy of the author
Heinrich von Kleist

Ivan Klima

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Abraham Kuyper

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

George Lakoff

Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Claude Levi-Strauss

C.S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Martin Luther

Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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
John Mcgahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
John Bach McMaster

John B. McMaster. Frontispiece (cropped) from Great epochs in American history : described by famous writers from Columbus to Roosevelt (1912)
Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L Mencken

W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
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)
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

W. J. T. Mitchell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Tirso de Molina

Monument to Tirso de Molina, Madrid, Spain. Photo by Luis García / Flickr.
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Robert Musil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
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)
George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Sir

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

Bowen School Yearbook: 1903 Senior Class
Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
David Remnick, ed.

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
I. A. Richards

Marilynne Robinson

Nicholas Royle

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J. D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir, age 28, Chicago, IL. Frontispiece from The collected works of Edward Sapir (1900) Volume 3
Jean-Paul Sartre

Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Friedrich Schiller

Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Julie Schumacher

Credit: David Ellis Photography
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James S. Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Philip Sidney, Sir

from Wikipedia
Gary Snyder

1990s
Ilana Snyder

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

The Chicago Press

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Gertrude Stein

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

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

public domain
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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

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

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Paula Vogel

Columbia University
Izaak Walton

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

From Wikipedia Commons
Peter Weiss

Photograph by Dietbert Keßler (1982)
Janwillem van de Wetering

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Lee Whorf

John Edward Williams

William Winter

William Winter (1836-1917) Drama Critic & Author
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Sir Thomas Wyatt

Sir Thomas Wyatt, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
W. B. Yeats

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