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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Theodor Adorno

Louisa May Alcott

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

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Stanley Aronowitz

David Shankbone
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Mikhail Bakhtin

Dave Barry

Roland Barthes

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Judy Blume

Jorge Luis Borges

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
Charles Brockden Brown

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

Robert Cowen
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Jesse Byock (ed.)

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ann Charters (ed.)

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Martin Clark

© 2004 Tate Photography
Colette

from Wikipedia
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Robert Crawford

Guy Debord

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

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

"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)
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (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)
Julie Andrews

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
T. S. Eliot

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Euripides

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

Jan Ainali
William Faulkner

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

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
Helen Fielding

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Henry Louis Gates (ed.)

Elizabeth Gilbert

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Nikolai Gogol

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

Graham Greene

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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

from Wikipedia
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lillian Hellman

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)
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
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
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Harriet Jacobs

wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Joyce

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

Image from Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (1868) by Elizabeth Keckley
Jack Kerouac

Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Heinrich von Kleist

Jerzy Kosinski

Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

George Lippard (1822-1854), circa 1850 (Daguerreotype Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-6548)
Susan Herrmann Loomis

David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Henry Miller

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

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Irene Nemirovsky

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Joseph E. Persico

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

See below.
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Eyewitness Travel Guides

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Thomas Pynchon

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
Jacob A. Riis

1904 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-5511)
Tom Robbins

J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Betty Smith

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

Gary Snyder

1990s
Amy Sohn

Photography by Charles Miller
John Steinbeck

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

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Elizabeth Stoddard

Image from The Morgesons: A Novel (1901) by Elizabeth Stoddard
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ngugi

Public-Conversations
Hunter S. Thompson

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Sojourner Truth

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Jessica Valenti

Helena Maria Viramontes

Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Jacobo di Voragine

Detail from "Crucifixion" by Ottaviano Nelli, Chapel of the Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. Photo by Georges Jansoone / Wikimedia Commons
David Foster Wallace

Evelyn Waugh

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

(c) Alison Weir
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eudora Welty

Nathanael West

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

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
William Carlos Williams

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tom Wolfe

Naomi Wolf

Richard Wright

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

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
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