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Unknown

Paperback Pirate
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Lyman Abbott

Credit: Sherman McHugh, New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Henry Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-cwpbh-02619)
Samuel Adams

Portrait of Samuel Adams (1722-1803) by John Singleton Copley (Wikimedia Commons)
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
George Biddell Airy, 1801-1892

Photographer unknown. From the Smithsonian Institution, Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Mildred Aldrich

Image from On the edge of the war zone, from the battle of the Marne to the entrance of the Stars and stripes (1917) by Mildred Aldrich
Christopher Alexander

John L. Allen

John L. Allen, Jr. / Wikipedia
American Museum of Natural History.,

Photo taken by me (lilithcat).
Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Elisha Benjamin Andrews

Elisha Benjamin Andrews. From page 474 of Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources (1909)
Anonymous

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
ARISTOPHANES.

Aristotle

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

Project Gutenberg
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margot Asquith

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-33709)
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

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

Source: US President's Council on < br> Physical Fitness and Sports
Charles Babbage

Fourmilab
Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
M. R. Ballantyne

wikipedia
Robert S Ball

From McClure's Magazine, December 1895 (Project Gutenberg)
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Linda Barnes

Photo by Lynn Wayne
J. M Barrie

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Charles A. Beard

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

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

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Gregory Benford

Arthur Christopher; Viscount Esher (editors) Benson

"The Brothers Benson"
(A.C. Benson on left)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton, artist
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 16, 1935
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-42517)
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Yogi Berra

Photo taken by Wikipedia user "Googie Man"
Sir Walter Besant

Source: "The New Student's Reference Work" (1914)
Henry Bibb

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)
Isabella L. Bird

R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Fanny Blake

Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd
Boethius

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
George Henry Borrow

wikipedia
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com

Ben Bova

Sarah H. Bradford

Stewart Brand

David Brewster

Sir David Brewster
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jane Brody

MDCarchives
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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Henry Brooke

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

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

Sylvia Browne

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Browning

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

Davis & Sanford (1904)
Jr. William F. Buckley

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

Photo by Cristina Beltrán
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

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

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
John Hill Burton

Frontispiece of the book, The Book-Hunter, by John Holl Burton, 1882 edition
Julius Caesar

public domain
Hall Caine

Credit: C.S. Harris, 1895 (Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5957)
James M. Cain

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

Lithograph by N. Currier, 1853
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-pga-00800)
Milton Caniff

Alan Light
Orson Scott Card

Thomas Carlyle

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

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, circa 1890-1910
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-47077)
Andrew Carnegie

Credit: Copyrighted by Pach Bros., 1912
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48403)
Lewis Carroll

Peter Cartwright

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Samuel de Champlain, 1567-1635

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

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

Howard Chaykin von Wintergeist bei Flickr
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2992688239_815befc5e9_b.jpg
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)
Agatha Christie

Winston s. Churchill

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

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

Edward Hyde Clarendon, Earl of, 1609-1674Craik, Henry, Rt. Hon. Sir, 1846-1927

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

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Richard A. Clarke

Author photograph by AFP/Corbis
Henry Clay

Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Lithograph published by N. Currier, circa 1835-1856
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC2-2672)
Agnes M. Clerke

Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

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

from Wikipedia
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
Le Corbusier

Steven Caldwell

J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganEllen Crosby

photo credit: Martina Norelli
Jorge Cruise

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Rosie Daley

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
U.S. Army

defenselink.mil
Demosthenes

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Colin Dexter

Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1776-1847

From the book, Bibliomania; or Book-Madness by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, 1886 edition
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Reader's Digest

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

Rael Dornfest

Joi Ito
Dale Dougherty

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895

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

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Alexandre Dumas Pere

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Will Durant

Charles A. Eastman

From "AMONG THE SIOUX
A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas," Creswell, 1906
(Project Gutenberg)
Maurice Francis Egan

Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Eisenhower Dwight D.

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Edward S. (Edward Sylvester) Ellis, 1840-1916

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

Jeffrey Ethell

Courtesy of David Ethell
Euripides

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

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

af.mil
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
George Foreman

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Lawrence Freedman

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice Principal (Research), King's College, London
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Adolf Galland

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

Photo copyrighted 1903
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-104657)
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Joel Garreau

Photo by Kenneth Garrett
Norman A. Garrett

William Lloyd Garrison

Photo circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02273)
Teri Garr

Credit: Alan Light, Sept. 1990
W. S. Gilbert

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

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

Wikipédia France
David Goldbeck

Healthy Highwayswith Nikki Goldbeck
Nikki Goldbeck

Healthy Highways
with David Goldbeck
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jorie Graham

U. S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Richard Green

Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
George Bird Grinnell

c1900, Ruthven Deane Collection (Library of Congress)
Ursula K. Le Guin

James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJack C. Haldeman

At Necronomicon '90.
Edward Everett Hale, 1822-1909

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Alexander Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
James R. Hansen

Photo by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Barbara Harris

Barbara Harris, Editor of Shape Magazine ~ Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Julian Hawthorne

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06607)
George Edmund Haynes

HeinleinRobert

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), portrait by George Bagby Matthews, circa 1891 (Art Collection of the U.S. Senate)
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.
Victor Herbert

Victor Herbert (Musician) ~ From "What We Hear in Music, Anne Faulkner, 1913
Herodotus

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

Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Gilbert Highet

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
Conrad N. Hilton

Portrait of Conrad Hilton. Photo by Randal L. Schwartz / Flickr.
Christopher Hitchens

Tami Hoag

(c) Exley Foto Inc.
Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Ron L. Hubbard

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson, 1841-1922

wikipedia.org
Rupert Hughes

Mr. & Mrs. Rupert Hughes ~ George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
James Huneker

Robert Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

wikimedia commons
George Iles

The Library of Science
Texas Instruments Incorporated

Alan Mak
Washington Irving, 1783-1859

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives, around 1889. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Paul Jackson

Jane Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R James

www.stephengray.net
J.A. Jance

Emyl Jenkins

Robert M. Sexton
Jerome Klapka Jerome

Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Peter Johnson

Philip Johnson

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Jan. 18, 1933 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-127285)
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

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

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

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Franz Kafka

David Kahn

from Wikipedia
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
John Keats

Elizabeth Keckley

Image from Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (1868) by Elizabeth Keckley
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Henry Ketcham

Inkpot Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Dean King

King James Version

King James I of England, watercolor by Nicholas Hilliard.
Jr. Day Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Rudyard Kipling

Austin Melvin Knight

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Lafayette de, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis

Reproduction of painting by
Edward Percy Moran, 1909
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-4526)
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Dewey Lambdin

Dewey Lambdin with Sharyn McCrumb in Nashville
Rudolfo Lanciani

Rodolfo Lanciani (bottom right). Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Kerman and Zeris, the two Kittens who accompanied Author on his wanderings. Image from Across Coveted Lands: or, A Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland (1902) by A. Henry Savage Landor
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Maria Langer

Photo courtesy of the Author
Frances Moore Lappe

Stephen Leacock

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

Photo by Julian Vannerson (Library of Congress)
Charles G LELAND

Charles Godfrey Leland, circa 1853
General Curtis E. LeMay

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Air Force Photo)
Gaston Leroux, 1868-1927

from Wikipedia
Paul Levine

David H. Levy

JPL
Sinclair Lewis

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

Jesse Liberty, provided by himself
Franz Liszt

Photograph, circa 1880s (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-130770)
John Avery Lomax

John Lomax collection, Library of Congress
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891

Photo while Minister to the United Kingdom, 1880-1885
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Lucretius

Ross Macdonald

Niccolo Machiavelli

Ken MacLeod

Robert Macneil

Debbie Macomber

Twenty Wishes book signing, onyx95
Terence J. MacSwiney

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

Isaac F. Marcosson

Phillip Margolin

Beryl Markham

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

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Richard Matheson

William Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879

Engraving by G. J. Stodard from a photograph by Fergus of Glasgow, reproduced in "Britain's Heritage of Science" by Arthur Shuster and Arthur Shipley (1917)
Karl Friedrich May, 1842-1912

Charles McCarry

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Canada. Patent and Copyright Office / Bureau des brevets et du droit d'auteur; Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada; nlc-54336
Ph.D Phillip C. McGraw

Roger McGuinn

Jay Cross, February 26, 2007
john mcmaster

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

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Feb. 9, 1968, Cabinet meeting, White House
James A. Michener

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

John Hall Photography
John Stuart Mill

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

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.
Fred Moody

Alfredo Castaneda
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Augustus de Morgan

Augustus De Morgan. Portrait from Memoir of Augustus De Morgan (1882) by Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan. Wikimedia Commons.
Morgan Murray

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

Portrait by Friedrich Rehberg (1758-1835)
John Morley

Photo by Underwood & Underwood, from "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie," 1919
Project Gutenberg
Marcia Muller

John J. Nance

James Nasmyth

Simon Newcomb

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-16238)
Mother Earth News

nix.larc.nasa.gov
Jack Nicklaus

President Bush presents PGA champion Jack Nicklaus with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Harold Nicolson

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

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Alfred Noyes

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
William T Adams

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

George Orwell

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

From Wikipedia
Ovid

Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Thomas Paine

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

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer and President Bush comparing golf grips, Presidential Medal of Freedom awards ceremony, 2004. White House photo by Paul Morse.
Robert B. Parker

Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
James Patterson

Richard North Patterson

Ridley Pearson

Pam Peeke

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Samuel Pepys

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

Nathaniel Philbrick

Plato.,

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

Plutarch

David Pogue

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Jerry Pournelle

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862)
Richard A Proctor

Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
DK Publishing

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
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)
Gilda Radner

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

Sir Walter Raleigh
Painting by Nicolas Hilliard, circa 1585
(Yorck Project)
Dan Rather

Photo by Dave Winer (Flickr/Cropped for Wikipedia)
Rachael Ray

The Heart Truth
Christopher Reich

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
James Ford Rhodes

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Jeremy Rifkin

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945

Theodore Roosevelt

Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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)
Raphael Sabatini

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

Carl Sagan

Camille Saint-Saens

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
George Augustus Sala

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

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
Vincent Scully

Vincent Scully. White House photo by Susan Sterner.
Roebuck and Co. Incorporated Sears

Sears Merchandise Building Tower, Illinois, USA
John Delano
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Robert J. Serling

Robert J. Serling
Garrett P. Serviss

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-38781)
William Shatner

Sidney Sheldon

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1797-1851

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sheridan. P.H. [Philip Henry]

General Philip H. Sheridan, from a photograph taken in 1864.
M.P. Shiel

Margaret Sidney, 1844-1924

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
W. Gilmore Simms

Etching by V.Gribayedoff
Courtesy of the
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Adam Smith

Cordwainer Smith

Goldwin Smith

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SMITHSONIAN

Denton J. [Homer] Snider

Denton Jaques Snider. From page 5 of A brief report of the meeting commemorative of the early Saint Louis movement in philosophy, psychology, literature, art and education : in honor of Dr. Denton J. Snider's eightieth birthday, held January 14th and 15th
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

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Sophocles

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Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903

Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
Steven Spielberg

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Allen Steele

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Martha Stewart

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Bram Stoker

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John Straley

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George E. Stuart

George E. Stuart at the site of Palenque
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Sarah Susanka

Strawbridge Photography
John Addington Symonds

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John M. Synge

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Thomas W. Talley

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Paul Theroux

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Henry David Thoreau

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Robert Basile
Leo Tolstoy

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Mark Twain

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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