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Henry Adams

Kim Addonizio

Photographed by Robert Specter
Aeschylus

Francisco X. Alarcon

Patricia gherbaz
Sherman Alexie

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Dorothy Allison

Yehuda Amichai

Israel Post
A. R. Ammons

Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Hannah Arendt

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Marcus Aurelius

Sara Backer

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.
Russell Baker

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Edward Bellamy

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

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Frank Bidart

© Jerry Bauer
Isabella L. Bird

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Chana Bloch

Roy Blount Jr.

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Laurel Ann Bogen

BEYOND BAROQUE
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia

Jorge Luis Borges

Gabor Boritt

Photograph by Liz Boritt
Catherine Drinker Bowen

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Richard. Brautigan

Kate Braverman

Photo by Chris Felver
Bertolt Brecht

Jill Breckenridge

Susie Bright

Michael Broadbent

Dee Brown

Robert Browning

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

Robert Cowen
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Corinna Lynette Byer
George Gordon Byron, Lord

James M. Cain

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

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Elias Canetti

BALDESAR CASTIGLIONE

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bruce Catton

Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Constantine Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Frank Cebulski

Portrait of Frank Cebulski by Anthony Holdsworth (January 2009)
National Yiddish Book Center

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Lucille Clifton

Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Linda Cobb

Jean Cocteau

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

Wanda Coleman

BEYOND BAROQUE
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienDouglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Creeley

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Thomas Norman DeWolf

Jared Diamond


Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
John Donne

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Will Durant

T. S. Eliot

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
John Feinstein

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Shelby Foote

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

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

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Jack Gilbert

Julio Granda
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Brendan Gill

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


Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Louise Gluck

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
E H Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kirpal Gordon

Jorie Graham

Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Val D. Greenwood

I took it myself and own all rights.
David Halberstam

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Robert Hass


Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Jennifer Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Herodotus

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

Christopher Hibbert

Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Edward Hirsch

Jack Hirschman

Photo by Kel Munger.
Anthony Holden

Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Eugene; Allen Ionesco, Donald M. (trans)

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Henry James

Wikipedia
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Charles Richard Johnson, 1948-

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Jordan Jones

Photo (c) 2001 John Hagman
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Alvin M. Jr Josephy

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

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

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Thomas a Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Paul Klee

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
Jon Kukla

Jennifer Kukla
Milan Kundera

R.D. Laing

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

C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Robert Lowell

Niccolo Machiavelli

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Moliere

Wikipédia France
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
William Morris

From Wikipedia
V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
National Archives and Records Administration

Interior of the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Photo by English Wikipedia user
KkmdSoseki Natsume

Victor S. Navasky

Nicholas Negroponte

Robert Scoble
Pablo Neruda

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Barack Obama

Scott O'Dell

George Orwell

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

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

Photograph by Patricia Parker
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Nathaniel Philbrick

Kevin Phillips

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Pamela Boyer Porter

Oxford

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
DK Publishing

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

Wikipédia France
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Thomas E. Ricks

Credit: Terry Ballard, 2007
Rainer Maria Rilke

Phyllis Rose

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

John Ruskin

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

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Sappho

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

Eric Paul Shaffer


William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
William Tecumseh Sherman

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.

Gary Snyder

1990s
National Geographic

Sophocles

Christopher Spranger

Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Gertrude Stein

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

Robert Scoble
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
Henry David Thoreau

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

Wikipedia Commons
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Brian Tracy

Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sun-tzu

Various

Thorsten Veblen

Wikipedia
Solomon Volkov

© 2003 Marianna Volkov
Voltaire

Andrew Md Weil

John R. Ziemann
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Sean Wilentz

Prof. Sean Wilentz (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

Edward Yourdon

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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