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Anon

Paperback Pirate
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Harold Abelson

Joi Ito
Ralph Abraham

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Aischylos

Carl Adolph Agardh

Grave of Carl August Agardh, Lund. Photo by user Väsk / Wikimedia Commons.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Ekrem Akurgal

Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

William Alexander

Photo by Katherine Alexander
Hans Alfredson

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

Gail Anderson

Lars-Gunnar Andersson

Vogler
Roy Chapman Andrews

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-50488)
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Fernando Arrabal

Stoisto
Arrian

Antonin Artaud

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

wikimedia commons
Matilde Asensi

(c) Miguel Perdiguero
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

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

A. J. Ayer

Marcel Aymé

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Karl Baedeker

Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Robert Stawell Ball

From McClure's Magazine, December 1895 (Project Gutenberg)
Michael Balter

Photographed by Emma Balter
Honor� de Balzac

Wikipédia France
David P. Barash

Clive. Barker

Steven Friederich
Stephen Batchelor

L.Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Simone de Beauvoir

Clare Bell

Photo of Clare Bell by husband Chuck Piper,2006
Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-08277)
(cropped)
Gioconda Belli

Photo by Jorge Mejía peralta / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
George Berkeley

Martin Bernal

Public-Conversations
Jacob Berzelius

Source: "Svenska Familj-Journalen" (1873)
Isabella L. Bird

Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
William Goldbloom Bloch

Courtesy of the author.
Noel Thomas Boaz

Photo by Lydia Boaz
Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Friedrich Bodenstedt

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-135576
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gillian Bradshaw

Tycho Brahe

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
Fernand Braudel

James Henry Breasted

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

Heðin Brú

Postverk Føroya - Philatelic Office
Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
David Brin

By R. Feist
Charlotte Brontë

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
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michelle P. Brown

Brunner John

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Lewis Burckhardt

Engraving by Lizars after drawing by Stewart: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-78114)
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

William H. Calvin

Luis Vaz De Camoens

Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Campbell

photo by Anne Campbell
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Lyle Campbell

William J. Poser
Joachim Heinrich Campe

Joachim Heinrich Campe. Frontispiece from Joachim Heinrich Campe: Ein Lebensbild aus dem Zeitalter der Aufklärung (1896) by Jakob Anton Leyser.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Čapek

Rudolf Carnap

Edward Carpenter, Social Reformer

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Peter Cheyney

Ted Chiang

Elze Hamilton
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Patricia Churchland

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Champ Clark

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-27529)
Arthur Clarke

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

Agnes M. Clerke

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
William Cobbett

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

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

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Allan Cole

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
R. G. Collingwood

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

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

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, http://owpdb.mfo.de/detail?photoID=726
Clio Cresswell

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Francis Crick

David Crystal

Barry W. Cunliffe

William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Charles Darwin

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

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Ivan Helmer
Philip K. Dick

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
P. C. Doherty

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Fjodor M. Dostojewskij

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Johanna Drucker

Alexandre Dumas

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Baron

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Gerald M. Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
David Edmonds

John Edwards

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Senate Portrait)
Wilhelm Eisenlohr

Phyllis Eisenstein

John Emsley

Photo by John Holman
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Desiderius Erasmus

Euklides,

Engraved image of Euclid
Leonhard Euler

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

wikimedia commons
John K. Fairbank

Rick Stafford
John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Philip José Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
William Feller

Abu al-Qasim Hasan Firdawsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
E. Fermi

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Paul K. Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
R. P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Ernst Fischer

Camille Flammarion

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

Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R.A. Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Anatole France

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

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Patrick French

Leonhart Fuchs

Neue Kritterbuch
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Per Gahrton

Schyffel
Neil Gaiman

Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642

Justus Sustermans
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Izrail Moiseevic Gelfand

Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Wilhelm Gesenius

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

André Gide

1893
Herbert A. Giles

Published courtesy of the Australian National University Library which holds the entire Giles Family Archive
Peter Gilliver

Peter Gilliver, c. 1986. Photo by Ashley Van Haeften.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nicolas Gogol

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

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

From Wikimedia Commons
E. H Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Kathleen Ann Goonan

Permission of KAG.
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Asa Gray

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Brian Greene

Jeff Greenwald

Photo of Jeff Greenwald, on location. Photo copyright: www.seacology.org
Jane Grigson

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right

Ursula K. Le Guin

Gunnar Gunnarsson

Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Lars Gustafsson

Suz
Ernst Haeckel

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

Wikipedia
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
HarperCollins

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

Alice C. Harris

(c) William J. Poser
James Harris

James Harris. Frontispiece from Philological inquiries, in three parts (1781)
Dick Harrison

Wikipedia Commons, photographer Kenneth Jansson
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Marc D. Hauser

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Zahi A. Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Paul Hazard

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-16572)
(cropped)
Sven Anders Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-17306)
William Heinesen

Postverk Føroya - Philatelic Office
Robert A. Heinlein

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Hermann von Helmholtz

Source: "Practical Physics" (1914)
Jochen Hemmleb

© Peter Ressmann/Archiv Jochen Hemmleb, Bolzano
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.
Halicarnassus Herodotus

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hesiodos

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
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)
Christopher Hibbert

David Hilbert

Pekka Himanen

Pekka Himanen
Robin Hobb

P. C. Hodgell

copyright David Lenander
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Jack Holland

Simon Holledge

Homeros

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Alexander von Humboldt

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

from Wikipedia
James R. Hurford

Photo courtesy of Jim Hurford
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaEva Ibbotson

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Rotsee
Stephen Inwood

Joe Inwood
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen

Postverk Føroya - Philatelic Office
Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Kay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Samuel Johnson

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

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Ben Jonson

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

George Gheverghese Joseph

James Joyce

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

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Franz Kafka

David A. Kahn

from Wikipedia
Kˆalidˆasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Nikolaj Michajlovic Karamzin

(Library of Congress Division of Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-128265)
Ingmar Karlsson

Rotsee
Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Sharon Kaye

Jack Kerouac

Charles King

Notable Men of Wisconsin, Williams Publishing, Milwaukee, 1902
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Rudyard Kipling

Athanasius Kircher

Donald E. Knuth

David Monniaux
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Charles H. Kraft

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Erich K&stilde;tner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Kurtz Katherine

Katherine Kurtz
William Labov

William J. Poser
George Lakoff

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
Saunders Mac Lane

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH (MFO)
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Halldór Laxness

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Gwendolyn Leick

Mikhail Iu'Evich Lermontov

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

José-Manuel Benito Álvarez
Janna Levin

jannalevin.com
Primo Levi

C.S. Lewis

Erik L'Homme

Georges Seguin
Jesse Liberty

Jesse Liberty, provided by himself
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
H. G. Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alan P. Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Eugene Linden

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Carl von Linné

From "Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great Scientists," Elbert Hubbard, 1916 (Project Gutenberg)
Yutang Lin

Library of Congress
Emile Littré

Penelope Lively

John Lubbock (1st Baron Avebury)

Lukianos

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Titus Lucretius Carus

Egron Lundgren

Nordisk familjebok
Charles Lyell

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
George MacDonald

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Ernst Mach

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (1900)
Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Fosco Maraini

Eric Menneteau
Lynn Margulis

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain
David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Marshall

John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
A. E. W Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Matthew Fontaine Maury

Engraving by Geo E. Perine, N.York (U.S. Navy Military Library)
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Anne McCaffrey

Robert McCrum

Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Dennis L. McKiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
John H. McWhorter

John Meaney

Used with permission
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Gregor Mendel

Deutsche Reichspost / Wikimedia Commons
Tefcros Michaelides

Adam Mickiewicz

Credit: Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128272)
China Mieville

Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
A.A. Milne

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

Frédéric Mistral

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

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
A. B. Mitford

Samuel Lawrence
Marianne Mithun

(c) William J. Poser
Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Ward Moore

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

Christi Morgenstern

Karl Philipp Moritz

Portrait by Friedrich Rehberg (1758-1835)
Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Heiner Müller

Petrus van Musschenbroek

V Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Simon Newcomb

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

TriviaKing
Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Charles Nodier

Norton

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Sally Odgers

My picture
Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Orwell George

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

Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Julius Payer

Octavio Paz

Iain Pears

P. J. E. Peebles

Phillip James Peebles, Professor of Physics, Princeton University. Photo by Robert P. Matthews, 1995 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Aulus Persius Flaccus

M. F. Perutz

Petronius Arbiter

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

Plutarch

David Pogue

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Henri Poincaré

Marco Polo

Karl Raimund Popper, Sir

Laurens Van der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcel Proust

Malcolm Pryce

Aleksander Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Willard Van Orman Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Francois Rabelais

Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Knud Rasmussen

Eric S. Raymond

Photo credit: Russ Nelson , June 3, 2005
Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard

Robert J. Richards

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Pierre Richelet

Matt. Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Miriam Rothschild

J. K. Rowling

Rudy v. B. Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Olof Rudbeck

Painting by Martin Mijtens the Elder
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gilbert Ryle, 1900-1976.

Cervantes

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

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J. D. (Jerome David) Salinger, 1919-

Brandon Sanderson

H. C. McNeile

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

Ferdinand De Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Scalzi

George B. Schaller

Beijing Zoo lecture, Aug. 10, 2005 (photo credit: Smartneddy, Wikipedia user)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele from Svenska Familj-Journalen 1874.
Annemarie Schimmel

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons
Ebbe Schön

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Johann Schröder

Erwin Schrödinger

Laurent Schwartz

Source: Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen (from the Oberwolfach Photo Collection)
URL: http://owpdb.mfo.de/photoNormal?id=3752
(cropped)
John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Seneca

Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Barbara A. Shailor

Center for American Progress
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Steven Shapin

Ragesoss
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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