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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jorge Amado

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
David Archer

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
British Medical Association

BMA Headquarters, image provided by Tony Corsini
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Brian Azzarello


J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Connie Barlow

Courtesy of David Sunfellow Photography

Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Hans De Beer


Gioconda Belli

Photo by Jorge Mejía peralta / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Wu Ming

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia

Jorge luis borges


Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Ed Brubaker

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Truman Capote

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

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Eric Carle

John le Carre

Lewis Carroll

A. Cornelius Celsus

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Jerome Charyn

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Cechov

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Babette Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Coltrane

Guilleaz
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
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)
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Miles Cdcolm 85800 Davis

Ned Vizzini
Richard Dawkins

Sandrone Dazieri

Andrea De Carlo

www.andreadecarlo.com
Jamie Delano

Daniel Clement Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
F. M. Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Garth Ennis

pinguino k
Euripides

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

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

Jerry A. Fodor

Jerry Fodor at his reception dinner on November 7, 2007 during his visit to the University of Maryland. Photo by Pedro Alcocer.
James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph

Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Kahlil Gibran

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

Nikolaj Gogol

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

The William Graves Collection
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Alberto Korda
Georges I. Gurdjieff

loc.gov: Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Eric J. Hobsbawm

Albert Hofmann

Photo by Philip H. Bailey
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Nick Hornby

Alexander von Humboldt

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

Joe Zattere
Sir E. J. Drury II

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Colin Jones

James Joyce

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

Ernst Junger

Franz Kafka

Jack Kerouac

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Nikita Lalwani

credit: Vik Sharma
d.h.lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlo Levi


Primo Levi

Claude Lévi-Strauss

John Uri Lloyd

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
John Long

Carlo Lucarelli

Jaqen
Luttazzi Daniele

Elena Torre
Milo Manara

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Winsor McCay

1906

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Metallica

6tee-zeven
Mike Mignola

Credit: SolGrundy (Flickr user), 2006
Mark Millar

Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Henry Miller

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

Yukio mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Jacques Monod

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Novalis

Michel Onfray

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Filmregisseur, Italien

w:it:User:Provola
Fernando Pessoa

Pink Floyd Cdcap

Tim Duncan
Luigi Pirandello

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Karl Popper

Peter Porter

Simon James
Roy Porter

Jan Potocki

wikipedia

Marcel Proust

W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Tom Regan

Photo by Rainer Ebert / Flickr
R.E.M.

Stefano, July 22, 2003
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Joe Sacco

Photo by Matt Musselman

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J. D. Salinger

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006

Arthur Schnitzler,

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienLeonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Luis Sepulveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Ignazio Silone

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.
Shel Silverstein

Georges Simenon

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

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

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Baruch Spinoza

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Geronimo Stilton

PieterDP
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Tom Waits

en:User:Theplatypus
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Horace Walpole

Henry Smith Williams

From "How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science" (Fisher & Fisk, 1916)
Project Gutenberg
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienVirginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Abraham B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Lisbeth Zwerger

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