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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Bruce Ackerman

courtesy of Prof. Bruce Arnold Ackerman
Henry Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
James Agee

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

The David Allen Company
American Museum of Natural History

Photo taken by me (lilithcat).
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Michael Arlen

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

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

Roland Barthes

Jennifer Baumgardner

Samuel Beckett

Benigni

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Benigni.jpg?uselang=it
Walter Benjamin

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
James (Viscount Bryce) Bryce

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

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

Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Mark Caldwell

Photograph by Andrew Nahema
John le Carre

Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Ruy Castro

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
J. M. Coetzee

Jean Comaroff

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Maryse Conde

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Michael Cook

Prof. Michael Cook (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

Charles B. Dew

Williams College
Jared Diamond

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Sylviane A. Diouf

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr) ~ Photo by Larry O. Gay
Frederick Douglass

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

Will Durant

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Frantz Fanon

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Michel Foucault

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressFrancis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
John Lewis Gaddis

Henry Louis Gates

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Andre Gide

1893
Paul Gilroy

Guerilla Girls

Vincent van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nadine Gordimer

Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Steven Hahn

Columbia University
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Paul Hawken

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Martin Heidegger

Heinrich Heine; Louis Untermayer (Trans.)

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Oscar Hijuelos

Eric Hobsbawm

bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nalo Hopkinson

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
Tahar Ben Jelloun

James W. Johnson

From: TWENTIETH CENTURY NEGRO LITERATURE
OR A CYCLOPEDIA OF THOUGHT ON THE
VITAL TOPICS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO. 1902.
Leroi Jones

Library of Congress
Franz Kafka

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Jack Kerouac

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Henry Kissinger

KODAK

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Yusef Komunyakaa

Photo by Lilithcat
Danna Korn

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Sylvia Plachy
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Bruce Levine

Primo Levi

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Robert Lowell

Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Paule Marshall

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Claude McKay

Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-105919)
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Cheryl Mendelson

John Stuart Mill

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

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Paul Muldoon

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Vladimir Nabakov

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

Pablo Neruda

Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Tillie Olsen

Michael B. Oren

Helen Oyeyemi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Paine

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

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Kenneth Pollack

Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Samantha Power

Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Marcel Proust

William B. Quandt

Helena Reckitt

Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James D. Richardson

1909 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-123874)
Tom Robbins

Kermit Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt (1889-1943): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21376)
Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Sharman Apt Russell

Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Habeeb Salloum

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Roger Scruton

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Zadie Smith

Susan Sontag

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

Robert Scoble
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Cass R. Sunstein

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Jeffrey Toobin

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

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
Rebecca West

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
C. K. Williams

Columbia University
Naomi Wolf

Lawrence Wright

Kenny Braun
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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