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Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Aeschylus

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Portrait of Shmuel Agnon on 50 NIS note.
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
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
Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer
Samuel Beckett

Richard J. Berenson

Illustration by Greg Manchess
Jared Bernstein

Center for American Progress
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Martin Buber

John Bunyan

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
SANDRA CISNEROS

Ruben Guzman
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Andrew Delbanco

Joyce Ravid
Alan M. Dershowitz

René 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)
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Will Durant

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Margaret Edson

Columbia University
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Euripides

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

Rick Stafford
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Viktor E. Frankl

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
Anthony Giddens

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
William Goldman

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

Photo by Business Association Italy America (BAIA) ~ Flickr
Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Joel Lurie Grishaver

Joel Lurie Grishaver
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Gustav Hasford

Photo by Dale Dye, property of U.S. Marine Corps (Wikipedia)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
O. Henry

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

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

E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Samson Raphael Hirsch

Wikimedia commons
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Edmund Husserl

Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Kay R. Jamison

Richard Wyatt
C. G. Jung

Franz Kafka

Aryeh Kaplan

from a family photo
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Peter D. Kramer

Charlotte Lennox

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

Stacy Marsh, UNC-Chapel Hill
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Walter Lippmann

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-21696)
(cropped)
Henry Mackenzie

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

Moses Maimonides

Herbert Marcuse

Gabriel García Márquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Frank McCourt

Mark Crispin Miller

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
John Milton

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienBill Moyers

Binyamin Netanyahu

Richard E. Neustadt

Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

William Hudson O'Hanlon

Steffanie O'Hanlon
George Orwell

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

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Katherine Anne Porter

Kit Reed

kitreed.net
Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
Lawrence H. Schiffman

Arthur M. Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
Jon Scieszka

Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )
Photo by Alan Light, 44th Emmy Awards, August 1992
(Flickr attribution license)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Hershel Shanks

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
National Geographic Society (U.S.).,

Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
עדין שטינזלץ

WIkipedia
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
von Strassburg Gottfried

Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Joseph Telushkin

Stephen Z. Friedgood
Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
John Kennedy Toole

Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Virgil

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

Eudora Welty

Jack Wertheimer

Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Ruth R. Wisse

Ruth Wisse receives the National Medal of the Arts, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper.
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