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Edward Abbey

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Robert Aitken

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

Peter Altenberg

Jonathan Ames

Photographed by Travis Roozée
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Stephen Batchelor

Samuel Beckett

Paul Benjamin

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Walter Benjamin

Thomas Bernhard

Wendell Berry

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Heinrich Boll

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

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
Frederick P. Brooks

Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown, Comic Book Writer at Heroes Con 2006 (Wikipedia)
John Seely Brown

Joi Ito
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Samuel Butler

Bill Buxton

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Karel Capek

Girolamo Cardano

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
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
Frank L. Cioffi

Alfred E. Guy Jr.
E M Cioran

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Stuart Archer Cohen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Collier

Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
John H. Conway

Prof. John Horton Conway. Photo by Robert P. Matthews, 1987 (courtesy of Princeton University)
John Conyers

Collection of U.S. House of Representatives
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Jim Crace

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Erik Davis

Chris Mays
Lydia Davis

Don DeLillo

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas Dixon

Portrait of Thomas Dixon by A.J. Conant.
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jacques Ellul

used by permission ©AIJE
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Felix Feneon

Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (in front of an enamel of a rhythmic background of measures and angles, shades and colors), 1890
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Max Frisch

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

Allen and Unwin
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Joel Garreau

Photo by Kenneth Garrett
Victor Gischler

Victor Gischler ~ Photo by Anthony Neil Smith
Todd Gitlin

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Bernie Glassman

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Nikolai Gogol

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

The Warburg Institute
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Alasdair Gray

John Gray

Dave Grossman

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class James R. Evans) (Released) (defenseimagery.mil)
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thich Nhat Hanh

Chris Harman

© 2009 Hossam el-Hamalawy
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Chris Hedges

Martin Heidegger

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Aleksandar Hemon

Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Michel Houellebecq

Bohumil Hrabal

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

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Holbrook Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Jane Jacobs

Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

Karl Jaspers

Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
Sean F. Johnston

Joseph Joubert

Ernst Junger

Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Keen

Joi Ito
Hugh Kenner

Etgar Keret

Moti Kakayon (מוטי קיקיון)
Daniil Kharms

Elias Khoury

Suz
Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Ivan Klima

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Robert Kuttner

Carolina Manero
George Lakoff

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Brenda Laurel

Photo by Bill Moggridge
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Steven Levy

Sinclair Lewis

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

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
Seth Lloyd

John Brockman
Richard Louv

Photo credit: Robert Bourroughs
Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi

Photo by Peter Cunningham / Flickr.
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jonathan Marks

Photo courtesy Jonathan Marks.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Sujata Massey

Jim Burger
Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
John McCarthy

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
Tom Mccarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
John Miedema

Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

Carl Mitcham

Photo by user Gwern / Wikimedia Commons
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Pete Moore

petermoore.net
William Morris

From Wikipedia
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Peter Morville

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Farley Mowat

Bill Moyers

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ry¯u Murakami

Joi Ito
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Jakob Nielsen

http://www.useit.com/jakob/photos/
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Barack Obama

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Kenzaburo Oë

George Orwell

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

Matti Järvinen
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Rajeev Charles Patel

credit: Andrea Ismert
Heinz-Otto Peitgen

from Wikipedia
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Fernando Pessoa

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Jerzy Pilch

Andrey Platonov

©The Random House Group
Michael Polanyi

Samantha Power

David A. Price

© 2003 Simon Bruty
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

Derek Raymond

Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Merce Rodoreda

Borja Vilallonga (1997).
Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Matt Ruff

Miguel De Cervantes

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

Photo by Lilithcat
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Frederik L. Schodt

Translation panel, Otakon 2003, by Lampbane
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
Steven Shapin

Ragesoss
Kevin Shay

Jessie Glass
Robert Shearman

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
David Shields

Tom Collicott
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Georges Simenon

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

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Sulak Sivaraksa

German Wikimedia Commons (by user Individualist)
Josef Skvorecky

public domain
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
C. P. Snow

Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

George R. Stewart

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

Erica Joy Baker http://www.ericabaker.com
David Suzuki

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Henry D. Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Lynne Tillman

David Shankbone, September 2007
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Lionel Trilling

Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Dubravka Ugresic

Wikimedia Commons
Paco Underhill

Photograph by Wyatt Counts
John Updike

Martha Updike
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Jean Vanier

John Burlinson
Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Enrique Vila-Matas

Mathieu Bourgois
Paul Virilio

Photo by GASTEV - "Live" democracy is in my opinion no longer democracy.
Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Brad Warner

Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Donald E. Westlake

Donald westlake by Jean-Marie David
Date
Quai du polar, Lyon, 2006
Source
Jean-Marie David (own work)
Author
Jean-Marie David
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Janwillem van de Wetering

Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton
Norbert Wiener

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
John Williams

E. O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
F. Paul Wilson

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP. G. Wodehouse

Ronald Wright

Nick Wiebe
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Stefan Zweig

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