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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 1889-1966.

wikimedia commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Yehuda Amichai

Israel Post
Ivo Andric

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
W.H. Auden

I. Babel§

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Stanislaw Baranczak

Mariusz Kubik
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Samuel Beckett

Antony Beevor

Saul Bellow

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Andrei Bitov

Dmitry Rozhkov
William (selected by Ruthven Todd) Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Willa Sibert Cather

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C.P. (George Savidis CAVAFY, Editor)

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Chekhov

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

Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Anderson Cooper

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Dawkins

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Bob Dylan

T. S. Eliot

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Bernt Engelmann

Bernt Engelmann (right). Photo by Gabriele Senft. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0714-305)
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Sergeˆi Aleksandrovich Esenin

Bust from Grave of Sergei Esenin, Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow. Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons.
Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Photographed by Edwin Locke, Feb. 1937
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-4225-M4)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Michel Foucault

Charles Frazier

Max Frisch

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

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

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Nikolai Gogol

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

Maxim Gorky

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

Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, 1961
(Credit: Carl Van Vechten)
(Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-116601)
Graham Greene

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128269)
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jaroslav HasÌŒek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
William Least-Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Aleksandr Herzen

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Bohumil Hrbal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Henry James

Wikipedia
Fenton Johnson

Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Thomas Keller

Brett Wilson
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Marijane Meaker

Marijane Meaker
Ross King

Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Ivan Klima

Pavel Kohout

Alexandra Kollontai

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-25077)
Lev Kopelev

Photo by Elke Wetzig / Wikimedia Commons
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

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Anne Lamott

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Brad Leithauser

Michael Malyszyko
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
M.Iu. Lermontov

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

Joi Ito
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Claude Levi-Strauss

Robert Lowell

Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Osip Mandel§shtam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Guy de Maupassant

McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Arthur Miller

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

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Edna O'Brien

Yury Olesha

From Wikipedia
George Orwell

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

Iva Pekarkova

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Petronius

Nathaniel Philbrick

Plato

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

©The Random House Group
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
E. Annie Proulx

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

A.S. Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

David Rakoff

Author: Larry D. Moore
Irina Ratushinskaya

Photo credit: Mikhail Evstafiev
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Ben Rice

Rainer Maria Rilke

Bertrand. Russell

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

from Wikipedia
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Robert Falcon Scott

Source: 1912 newspaper "The Sphere"
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
George Seferis

Photo by user Klearchoskapoutsis / Greek Wikipedia.
Ernest Henry Shackleton

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper.
David K. Shipler

© 2003 Claudio Vasquez
Josef Skvorecky

public domain
Adam Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Fyodor Sologub

wikimedia commons
Susan Sontag

Vladimir Sorokin

Elke Wetzig, 2006-03-13
Stephen Spender

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Wisława Szymborska

Studs. Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Anthony Trollope

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

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

from Wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

Vladimir Voˆinovich

Galina Zakhoder
Solomon Volkov

© 2003 Marianna Volkov
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
E B White

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

I took this photo!
Edmund Wilson

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Wright

eralon
Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin

Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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