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ANON

D'Arcy Norman
Jeff Abbott

Crilly Davis
Karen Abbott

Photo by Gilbert King
Peter Abelard

Bruce Ackerman

courtesy of Prof. Bruce Arnold Ackerman
PETER ACKROYD

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Henry Adams

Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Spiro T. Agnew

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Portrait)
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Edward Albee

Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Hoermann/Evergreen Studios
Nelson Algren

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Tim Allen

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (cropped) ~ Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Jonathan Alter

Photograph by Damien Donck
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Maxwell. ANDERSON

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

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

Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

Hannah Arendt

Ludovico Ariosto

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

Aristotle.,

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

Jerry Bauer
Matthew Arnold

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

Madeleine E. Asher
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
Farid Un-Din Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

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

St. Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
A. J. Ayer

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.
Michael Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
David P. Barash

Julian B. Barbour

From the author's website www.platonia.com
William Barclay

courtesy of the William Barclay Lectureship Trust
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Linda Barnes

Photo by Lynn Wayne
J.M. Barrie

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
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
Ellen Bass

Janet Bryer
Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Charles Baxter

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Charles A. Beard

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

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Francis Beaumont

Colin Beavan

Antony Beevor

Michael J. Behe

Courtesy of Michael Behe.
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Saul Bellow

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Jeremy Bentham

Thomas Berger

George Berkeley

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Daniel Berrigan

Credit: Kevin Ksen, 2005, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
John Betjeman, Sir

Albert J. Beveridge

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1900
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-61460)
Jr. Lloyd Biggle

Tim Birkhead

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Gwenda Blair

Photograph by Matthew W. Stolper
Michael Blake

Terry Ballard, October 4, 2005
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Lee C. Bollinger

Robert Scoble
Robert Bolt

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Max Boot

Jorge Luis Borges

Gabor Boritt

Photograph by Liz Boritt
Robert H. Bork

Wikipedia (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Boy Scouts of America.,

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Ray Bradbury

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Photograph by Harris and Ewing, circa 1916?
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ppmsca-06024)
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Stewart Brand

Richard Brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Bertolt Brecht

Jimmy Breslin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
David Brin

By R. Feist
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Anne Brontë

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Geraldine Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dee Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Eye on Books
John Brunner

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

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Edna BUCHANAN

Photograph by Jim Virga
James M. Buchanan

James M. Buchanan (center right), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Art Buchwald

Pearl S. Buck

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

Eye on Books
Louis McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

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

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

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Bryan Burrough

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton

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

Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Leo F. Buscaglia

MDCarchives
Samuel. [Mod Lib]. Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Robert C. Byrd

U.S. Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia (official portrait)
Robert Byrne

Lord Byron

James M. Cain

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

Jerry Bauer
William Calvin

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
Elias Canetti

Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Xue Can

Sonya >> 搜你丫, July 3, 2006
Karel Capek

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Benjamin N. Cardozo

circa 1932 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-38302)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

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

Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Henry Beebee Carrington

c1860-70, Library of Congress
Lewis (Charles Dodgson) Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Willa Cather

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Frank Chadwick

Game Designer and Author Frank Chadwick at the 2005 Origins Gaming Convention.
Jonathan Chait

Elizabeth W Champney

Elizabeth W. Champney (1850-1922) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Jerome Charyn

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)
John Cheever

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Micah Wolf
G. K. Chesterton

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Randolph S. Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill, his son Randolph, and grandson, Winston in coronation robes: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Toni Frissell Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05370)
Winston Churchill, Sir

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Author photograph by AFP/Corbis
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Ramsey Clark

LBJ Library photo by Frank Wolfe
Carl von Clausewitz

William Jefferson Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Andrei Codrescu

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

David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
Edward Coke

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

from Wikipedia
John Collier

Jackie Collins

Phil Konstantin
Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Barry Commoner

Liz Baylen
Auguste Comte

James B. Conant

Confucius

William Congreve

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Frederick Copleston

Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Archibald Cox

U.S. Dept. of Justice
Jacob D Cox

Brady-Handy Collection, c 1870-1880; Library of Congress
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Sir Edward Creasy

Francis Crick

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganAmanda Cross

John Burlinson
American National Red Cross.,

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
David Crystal

E. E. Cummings

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Clarence Darrow

Charles Darwin

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

Ned Hockman
Richard Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Avram Davidson

Diane Mott Davidson

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)

Robertson Davies

Bette Davis

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

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
UnitedStatesArmy

defenselink.mil
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Lester Del Rey

Daniel Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
united states war dept

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department
Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
John Dewey

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

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E. J. Dionne

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
E.L. Doctorow

Theodore Ayrault Dodge

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

Fedor M. Dostoevsky

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Theodore Dreiser

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

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Alexandre Dumas père

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Emile Durkheim

Gerald Durrell

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
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

Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Eggleston

Photo copyrighted by L. Bernie Gallaher, 1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78021)
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)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Charles W. Elliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
T.S. Elliott

Stanley (Editor and Preface) Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Elisabeth Elliot

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.)
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Frederik] Ellison [Pohl, Harlan, editor. (foreword by Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldis

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Amitai Etzioni

Photo © Esther Dyson
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

flickr user sogroovynow
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
John Farris

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building, Washington, D.C.
(fbi.gov)
John Feinstein

Edna Ferber

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

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Stephen Johnson Field

Credit: Napoleon Sarony, 1890
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-83944)
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Bobby Fischer

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Carrie Fisher

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Royal Canadian Air Force

A Canadian CF-18 Hornet from the 409th Tactical Fighter Squadron launches a laser-guided bomb during one of the unit's weapon systems evaluation program scenarios.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Lt. Col. Tim Pfeifer)
(af.mil)
C. S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Pat Frank

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

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sir James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Egon Friedell

Lawrence J. Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Max Frisch

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

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

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

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
J. F. C. Fuller

Image from Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (1919) by Sir Albert Gerald Stern
Steve Fuller

Universidad de Navarra
Jacques Futrelle

霧木諒二 on Wikipedia
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Daniel V. Gallery

USS Guadalcanal Task Force 22.3 Association (candotg.org) (via Wikipedia)
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
A.A. Fair

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Jonathan Gash

Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Hugo Gernsback

Radio News Nov 1928 Cover.jpg
Hugo Gernsback in his Manhattan apartment is watching a television broadcast from his WRNY station in August 1928.
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Floyd Phillips Gibbons

Image from "And they thought we wouldn't fight." (1918) by Floyd Phillips Gibbons
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Charlotte P. Gilman

Todd Gitlin

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
William Goldman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Barry M. Goldwater

Congressional Portrait
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Albert Gore, Jr.

Wikipedia
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Horace Greeley

Circa 1855-1865,
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-cwpbh-00705)
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

George Dawes Green

Mark Green

Mark J. Green (1945- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 2006, New York City
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
James McM. Douglas

Martha Grimes

Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ursula K. Le Guin

Allan Gurganus

Woody Guthrie

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

Prof. Amy Gutmann (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

H. R. Haldeman

Photo by Oliver F. Atkins, White House Photographer (Wikimedia Commons)
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Rich Hall

photo by Sam Cali
Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Alexander Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Learned Hand

Undated photograph (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-01256)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Donald Harington

DonaldHarington.com
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
B.H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Carolyn G. Hart

Library of Congress
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Moss Hart

David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Max Hastings

Gideon Hausner

ushmm.org
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Brooke Hayward

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William (Waller Hazlitt, A.R.)

engraving by John Hazlitt
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A. P Herbert

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

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
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Carl Hiaasen

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Christopher Hibbert

Homer Hickam

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Jim Hightower

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Edward Hirsch

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Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
John Hollander

Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
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Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, Lincoln scholar and Co-Chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 2009 Commission
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A. E. Housman

Fred Hoyle

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Robert Houghwout Jackson

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Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn (1922-1983)
Photographed by Thomas J. O'Halloran, May 11, 1965.
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MacKinlay Kantor

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Alton Jenkins
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John Keats

N. M. Kelby

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Henry Kissinger

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Kurt Klinger

Richard Kluger

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Pinn Hans
Wolfgang Kohler

Dean R. Koontz

Gary Kowalski

Gary Kowalski, author
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
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Leibniz

Lem Stanislaw

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin

John Lennon

Gaston Leroux

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Jonathan Lethem

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Stacy Marsh, UNC-Chapel Hill
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Titus Livy

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Elizabeth Loftus

University of California, Irvine
Jack London

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Kate Long

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Federico Garcia Lorca

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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Lucretius

Robert Ludlum

Emil Ludwig

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Daphne duMaurier

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Herman Melville

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Julie Morgenstern

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Larry Niven

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Frank Norris

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Robert Nozick

Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Stephen B. Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Barack Obama

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Carol O'Connell

Flannery O'Connor

Kenneth P. O'Donnell

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Laurence Olivier

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Tip O'Neill

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Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

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Chuck Palahniuk

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Dorothy Parker

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C. Northcote Parkinson

Blaise Pascal

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Alan Paton

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James Patterson

Richard North Patterson

George S. Jr. Patton

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
As Lt. General. Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps. March 30, 1943
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Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Drew Pearson

Jaroslav Pelikan

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Tom Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Scott Phillips

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Jean Piaget

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard at Dick Brown's house in Kansas City
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Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
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Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
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Richard Powers

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Gayle Prather
Helen Prejean

William Hickling Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
The Associated Press

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Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Richard Price

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Peter Pringle

Bill Pronzini

Robin Reese
Annie Proulx

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Marcel Proust

Pullman; Philip

Jamie Pullman
Hilary Putnam

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Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
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W. V. Quine

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Daniel Quinn

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Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

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Columbia University
Ayn Rand

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Vance Randolph

Vance Randolph (cropped) from photo held at Library of Congress.
Dan Rather

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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John Rawls

Rachael Ray

The Heart Truth
Piers Paul Read

John Reed

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William H. Rehnquist

Official portrait of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist
Ruth Reichl

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Quentin Reynolds

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Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Tom Robbins

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Detail of a group portrait at Camp Cobbossee in West Gardiner, Maine, in August, 1897.
Henri Pierre ROCHE

3rd man in is Roché
Sax Rohmer

Erwin Rommel

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Theodore Roosevelt

Edmond Rostand

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Desmond Rowland

J. K. Rowling

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Rudy Rucker
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Jehan Sadat

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Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
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William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
John Sandford

George Santayana

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

Photograph by Lisa Share
Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
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Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
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Columbia University
Friedrich Schiller

Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Arthur M. Schlesinger

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Bernhard Schlink

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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E.F. Schumacher

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John Thomas Scopes

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Lisa Scottoline

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David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Pete Seeger

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1955 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-116961)
Amartya Kumar Sen

USAID
Robert J. Serling

Robert J. Serling
Rod Serling

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Natan Sharansky receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper.
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Bernard Shaw

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Mary Shelley

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Jonathan Exley
Huston Smith

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Joseph Smith

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
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Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

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Robert M. Solow, on left. Center for American Progress
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Sophocles

Albert Speer

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Art Spiegelman

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Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
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Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
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Stendhal

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ian Stewart

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Bram Stoker

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Kzitelman
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