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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
James Agee

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Ivo Andric

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Herbert Aptheker

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer W.H. Auden

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J. L. Austin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Lester Bangs

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Charles A. Beard

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

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Hilaire Belloc

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

Arnold Bennett

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Heinrich Böll

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).
W. E. B. Du Bois

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

wiki
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Sarah H. Bradford

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Robert Bresson

The Film Reference Library Toronto
Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
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 Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Thomas Bullfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Samuel Butler

Smedley D. Butler

Wikimedia (U.S. Marine Corps Photo)
Erskine Caldwell

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

Jerry Bauer
Peter Camejo

Morella Camejo
Albert Camus

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

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

Stanley Cavell

Benvenuto Cellini

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
John Cheever

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Larry Christiansen

© 2002 by James F. Perry, Seattle, Wash.
Frank Church

Credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office
Ward Churchill

Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr
E. M. Cioran

Carl von Clausewitz

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Andrew Cockburn

Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
J.M. Coetzee

Steve Coll

Center for American Progress
Warren Commission

LBJ Library photo by Cecil Stoughton
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Ray Davies

Flavio Ferrari, October 28, 2007
Robertson Davies

U.S. War Department

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
August Derleth

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

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

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Allen Welsh Dulles

Will Durant

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Jean Echenoz

Umberto Eco

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

from Wikipedia
Sergei Eisenstein

George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
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
Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Stephen J. Field

ca. 1875
Robert Fisk

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Michel Foucault

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Gottlob Frege

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 CongressCarlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jane Gardam

Barton Gellman

Jean Genet

Andre Gide

1893
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Vivien Goldman

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Goldman

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

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Alberto Korda
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Gustav Hasford

Photo by Dale Dye, property of U.S. Marine Corps (Wikipedia)
G. W. Hawkes

Taken by laytonwoman3rd May 2003
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Gilbert Highet

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

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hitchens

Adolf Hitler

Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Nick Hornby

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Samuel Hynes (Editor)

photo: David Dobkin
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Charles Jackson

Carl Van Vechten
Henry James

Wikipedia
Karl Jaspers

Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
David Cay Johnston

c. 2007, Molly Leonard
Amiri Baraka

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Garry Kasparov

John Keats

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

John Maynard Keynes

Imam Khomeini

A pencil sketch of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini shooting missiles at the Persian Gulf through a pea shooter. Photo by PHCS TERRY MITCHELL, USN
(defenseimagery.mil)
Martin Luther King Jr.

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Henry Kissinger

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Käthe Kollwitz

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

Dezso Kosztolanyi

Bust of Dezso Kosztolanyi. Photo by user Mathae / Wikimedia Commons.
Milan Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Akira Kurosawa

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

Levilly lithograph
George Lakoff

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Philip Larkin

Emanuel Lasker

T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Harper Lee

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

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

George Henry Lewes

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

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

MDCarchives
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Henry Cabot Lodge

J. F. Purdy (1906)
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Robert Ludlum

John Lydon

Staughton Lynd

Staughton Lynd (1929- )
courtesy of
ZNetNiccolo Machiavelli

John Henry Mackay

From Runeberg.org
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Mao Zedong

from Wikipedia
John P. Marquand

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

Derek Shapton
Carson McCullers

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

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
John Stuart Mill

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

Tom Marcello, July 4, 1976
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
John Mortimer

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Benito Mussolini

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-34899
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Alexander Nehamas

Prof. Alexander Nehamas. Photo by Randall Hagadorn, 1994 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John von Neumann

MacTutor History of Mathematics (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Von_Neumann.html)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flannery O'Connor

Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
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
Greg Palast

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Shimon Peres

Robert Scoble
John Perkins

Kevin Phillips

Augusto Pinochet Ugarte

Photo by JOCS Kirby Harrison
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Iggy Pop

Credit: Robert Toren, 1980, at UC Davis
Associated Press

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Paul Ricoeur

Rijksmuseum Museum Staff

July 2005, photo by
DavidScott Ritter

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tom Robbins

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Detail of a group portrait at Camp Cobbossee in West Gardiner, Maine, in August, 1897.
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seiberg
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jon Savage

Justus Nussbaum
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Mark Schorer

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

John Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
W. G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Yasser Seirawan

Yasser Seirawan (1960- ), 2003 U.S. Chess Championships, Seattle, Washington. Photo by James F. Perry.
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Bernard Shaw

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Jeremy Silman

© 2002 by James F. Perry, Seattle, Wash.
George Simenon

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

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

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

Susan Sontag

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903
Stephen Spender

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Lewis Thomas

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Editors of Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Ivan Turgenev

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

Wikipedia
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
David L. Ulin (Editor)

LA Times Book Review editor David Ulin
at LA Times Book Prize shortlist party, New York, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganU.S. Government Printing Office

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
John Updike

Martha Updike
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Giuseppe Verdi

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

Anonymous photographer
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Andy Warhol

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Booker T. Washington

1911 photograph (cropped)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Edmund White

Thornton Wilder

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHerman Wouk

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

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Frank Zappa

Helge Øverås, January 16th 1977
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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