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Peter Abelard

Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Henry Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Stephen Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Balzac

Wikipédia France
Bill Barich

David Timmos
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Don M. Betterton

Robert Matthews (1983) Office of Communications, Princeton University
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Michael Bloomberg

Amanda Cogdon, May 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Roy Blount

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jorge Luis Borges

Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher at World Social Forum 3, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2003. (courtesy of
ZNet)
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)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
John Bunyan

Bryan Burrough

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Williams Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books
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)
Jim Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Willa Sibert Cather

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Agatha Christie

Ward Churchill

Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
J. M. Coetzee

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
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)
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Ram Dass

Kathleen Murphy
Angela Y. Davis

Mike Davis

Don DeLillo

Alan M. Dershowitz

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
E.L. Doctorow

J. P. Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Robert Draper

John Burlinson, Oct. 13, 2007
Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Dave Eggers

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Frantz Fanon

William Faulkner

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

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Helen Fielding

Bobby Fischer

Carrie Fisher

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

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Viktor E. Frankl

Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Alexandra Fuller

Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Seth Godin

Vincent Gogh

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

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

Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Pete Souza
Nadine Gordimer

Al Gore

Wikipedia
Graham Greene

Dick Gregory

World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller, 1964 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121425)
David Halberstam

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Matthew Hart

Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden and wife Barbara Williams (Credit: Jim Gilliam, 2004)
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
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)
Christopher Hitchens

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A. M. Homes

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Arianna Huffington

Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Robert Maynard Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
C.L.R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Franz Kafka

Robert Kagan

Claudio Vazquez
Stefan Kanfer

Andrew Castle
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Andrew Keen

Joi Ito
Jack Kerouac

Jr. King, Dr. Martin Luther

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Rudyard Kipling

Ivan Klima

Dan Koeppel

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Tim Krabbé

Louis Kronenberger

Paul R. Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Milan Kundera

Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueLewis H. Lapham

Frances Moore Lappe

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Jerome Lawrence

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

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
V.I. Lenin

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Penelope Lively

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Manning Marable

Photo by David Shankbone, September 2007
David Maraniss

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Chris Matthews

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Arthur Miller

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

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

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

Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Harry Mulisch

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Victor S. Navasky

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

MDCarchives
Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Romano Prodi

Romano Prodi at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. Photo by user Gryffindor / Wikimedia Commons.
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

John Rawls

Rainer Maria Rilke

Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Jerry Rubin

Photo © Robert Altman 2008
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Roger Lebacq
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Amartya Sen

USAID
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)
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Sophocles

George Soros

Photo by Jeff Ooi / LensaMalaysia.com
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Ralph Steadman

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
John Steinbeck

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

Jay Tamboli
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Arnold J. Toynbee

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dalton Trumbo

Donald J. Trump

Ivan Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao-Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Paul Watkins

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienElie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Tom Wolfe

Bob Woodward

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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