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Cesar Aira

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Steve Beard

Saul Bellow

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Jorge Luis Borges


Hermann Broch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Willa Cather

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Denis Diderot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

William Faulkner

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

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)
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Andre Gide

1893
Nikolai Gogol

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

Wikimedia Commons
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Michael Heller

Simon James
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)
Michel Houellebecq

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
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
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
James Joyce

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

Milan Kundera

Paul Kurtz

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurtz-1-.color.jpg.
Halldor Laxness

Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Sinclair Lewis

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

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

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Irmtraud Morgner

Irmtraud Morgner (right). Photo by Katscherowski. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1116-0010)
Harry Mulisch

Robert Musil


Vladimir Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk

Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia

Thomas Pynchon

Tom Robbins

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Robert M. Sapolsky

Photograph by Lisa Share
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Arno Schmidt

Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Hunter S. Thompson

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Ivan Turgenev

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

Martha Updike
Enrique Vila-Matas

Mathieu Bourgois
Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Peter Weiss

Photograph by Dietbert Keßler (1982)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSlavoj Žižek

Photo by Andy Miah
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