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Anon.

Paperback Pirate
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Sherman Alexie

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Kingsley Amis

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

Roman Marble, Imperial Period (2nd or 3rd Century). Photo by Eric Gaba / Wikimedia Commons.
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Sir Edwin Arnold

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Martin Bernal

Public-Conversations
Ambrose Bierce, ?

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Ray Bradbury

David Brin

By R. Feist
Anne Bronte

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
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Mary Brunton

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

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Thomas Bulfinch

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Baron

From Wikipedia
Anthony Burgess

Judith Butler

Jreberlein
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
James M. Cain

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

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Benvenuto Cellini

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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
G. K Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

from Wikipedia
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Robertson Davies

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Lester Del Rey

Jacques Derrida

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Lillian E. Doherty

Stephen R. Donaldson

John Donne

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

Library of Congress
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
T. S. Eliot

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Christopher A. Faraone

Courtesy the University of Chicago (
link)
David Ferry (trans.)

Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Neil Gaiman

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Sandra Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
René Girard

Vicq
Christopher Golden

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
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

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
David Halperin

Courtesy of David Halperin
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Herodotus

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

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

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Homer

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

A. E. Housman

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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

From "Lives of Girls Who Became Famous," Sarah Bolton, 1914
Project Gutenberg
Jane Jacobs

Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Sir

Alfred Gudeman
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
John Keats

H. Kenner

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
David Konstan

Jacques Lacan

Anne Lamott

Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

Rodolfo Lanciani (bottom right). Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mary R. Lefkowitz

National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Fritz Leiber

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

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Henry George Liddell

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

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
James Russell Lowell

Photo while Minister to the United Kingdom, 1880-1885
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lord Macaulay

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Don Marquis

Ngaio Marsh

Martial

From Wikipedia
William Holmes McGuffey

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

A. A. Milne

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

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Ogden Nash

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

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Martha Craven Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin
Dorothy Parker

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

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Simon Price

Courtesy of Stay Beautiful Club
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
J.K. Rowling

Bertrand Russell

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

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

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
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)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

David R. Slavitt

David R. Slavitt, b. 1935, aka Henry Sutton, no image located yet
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Herbert Weir Smyth

Bryn Mawr College Archives
Sophocles

Rodney Stark

courtesy of Prof. Rodney Stark
Rudolf Steiner

I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Snorri Sturlusson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Sir Ronald Syme

wikipedia
J. M. Synge

From Wikipedia
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, 1st baron

Dylan Thomas

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
various

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Gregory Vlastos

Kurt Weill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

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

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
ed. Woolcott, Alexander

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

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
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