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Edward Abbey

Michael Ableman

fieldsofplenty.com
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

©Rowena
David Attenborough

Shojo
Marcus Aurelius

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.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
L. H. Bailey

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)
Hilaire Belloc

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

Wendell Berry

Basilius Besler

J. Leypolt, 1613
Roy Bolton

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Louis Bromfield

Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1933
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)
John Brooks

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

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Thomas Bulfinch

Jacob Buckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
James Burke

Francelia Butler

Francelia Butler, Halloween 1990, Mansfield Hollow, Conn.
Samuel Butler

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
John Chaffee

Jerry Bauer
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Publicity photograph, photographer unknown, 1942 (from Smithsonian Institution Archives)
William Cobbett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sneed B. Collard III

Photo by Amy Ratzlaf
Nicolaus Copernicus

Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)
Francis Crick

Charles Curtis

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

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Charles Darwin

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

Photograph © Harry Borden
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Irwin - editor Edman

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

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Edited By Charles W. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Viktor E. Frankl

Sir James Frazer

FREUD SIGMUND

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Karl Von Frisch

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
B. A. G. Fuller

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

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Albert Gore

Wikipedia
Baltasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Asa Gray

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
A.C. Grayling

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Sue Halpern

Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Jim Henderson

John Burlinson
Howard Hendrix

E.M. Anzelmo
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Christopher Hitchens

Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Hume

from Wikipedia
David Hurwitz

David Hurwitz, author of Wasting the Dawn, buried in his personal book collection.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Thomas Huxley, H

"Professor Huxley. F.R.S."
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
William James

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

Courtesy of the author
Karl Jaspers

Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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

Immanuel Kant

Donald Kennedy

Donald Kennedy, Scientist & Academic (Photo from U.S. Food & Drug Administration)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Ivan Klima

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Julia Leigh

Noah Sheldon
Aldo Leopold

David H. Levy

JPL
C.S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
LUCRETIUS

Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Lynn Margulis

Credit: Javier Pedreira, 2005, La Coruña, Spain
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Rand McNally

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
H.L. Mencken

John Michell

John Michell
Geoffrey Miller

Norman Johnson
Jonathan Miller

MDCarchives
Tom Miller

Photo credit: Jay Rochlin
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Alexander Nehamas

Prof. Alexander Nehamas. Photo by Randall Hagadorn, 1994 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Isaac Newton

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

Gustav Schultze
Robert Nozick

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
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
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Donald C. Peattie

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

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Pascal P. Pirone

Archives of The New York Botanical Garden
Robert M Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Photo by user takomabibelot / Flickr.
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Polanyi

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Ernest Poole

Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
AYN RAND

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Jeremy Rifkin

Peter Robinson

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Bertrand Russell

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

Carl Sagan

George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRobert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Charles Sprague Sargent

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-103958)
Jean Paul Sartre

Marshall Saunders

Margaret Marshall Saunders. Frontispiece from Beautiful Joe, an autobiography; (1894)
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Michael Shermer

Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
A. Cort Sinnes

Photo by Brooke Sinnes
B.F. Skinner

PsychArt
Alexander McCall-Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic Society

Sophocles tr. E.F. Watling

Ralph STEADMAN

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
John Steinbeck

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

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Gene Stratton-Porter

Ball State University
Kazuaki Tanahashi

Photo by ottmarliebert.com / Flickr.
Celia Thaxter

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

From Wikipedia
Lewis Thomas

Henry D. Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Robert A. F. Thurman

Photo by Tenzin Nyima
J.R.R. Tolkien

Michael Toms

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anthony Trollope

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Lao Tsu

VARIOUS

Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Steven Weinberg

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

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

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Xenophon

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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