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Peter Abelard

Jane Addams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Louisa May Alcott

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Richard Aldington

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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Rajaa Alsanea

Stephen E. Ambrose

Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jean M. Auel

St Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Alessandro Barbero

Michael H. Barnes

Sebastian Barry

Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayle

wikimedia commons
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Edward Bellamy

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

Christ and St. Bernard by Francisco Ribalta, early 17th century.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

E. R. Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 24, 1962 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-117467)
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Alton Brown

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Charles Brockden Brown

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Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Thomas Browne

Anthony Burgess

Robert Burns

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Julius Caesar

public domain
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
GEORGE CAREY

Photo by Larry Gossett / Flickr.
Lewis Carroll

Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G.K. Chesterton

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
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St. John of the Cross

Jr. Dana, Richard Henry

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Richard Dawkins

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Editors of Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Isak DINESEN

In Kenya, 1918
Theodore Ayrault Dodge

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Norman Douglas

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Frederick Douglass

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David Farland

William Faulkner

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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Pat Frank

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Frazier

Harold Frederic

See below.
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
neil gaiman

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Sandra Gulland

Richard Gulland
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Homer Hickam

courtesy of Homer Hickam
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
John Paul, II

A. J. Jacobs

William James

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Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Chalmers Johnson

Photo courtesy of Chalmers Johnson
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
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TODD JOHNSON

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Johannes Kepler

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk. Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Leszek Kolakowski

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 2007
Rocky Kolb

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Par Lagerkvist

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
Robert Edward Lee

Photo by Julian Vannerson (Library of Congress)
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.S. Lewis

Robert Ludlum

Martin Luther

Niccolo Machiavelli

Erika Mailman

Courtesy Gabriela Laz Photography
Rani Manicka

Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Colleen Mccullough

Emma Mclaughlin

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

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

Margaret Mitchell

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Mark A. Noll

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Barack Obama

Flannery O'Connor

John O'Hara

George Orwell

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Ron Paul

U.S. House of Representatives Photo
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Nathaniel Philbrick

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo

Chaim Potok

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Diana Preston

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Paul Raeburn

Courtesy of Paul Raeburn
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Thomas E. Ricks

Credit: Terry Ballard, 2007
Alexandra Robbins

Theodore Roosevelt

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

P. Craig Russell

Photo courtesy: Wayne Alan Harold
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Rafael Sabatini

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

St. Francis de Sales

wikimedia commons
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Scalzi

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Seneca

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)
Nevil Shute

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Joshua Slocum

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71036)
Adam Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Betty Smith

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

from Wikipedia
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
John Steinbeck

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Gottfried von Strassburg

August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
J. M. Synge

From Wikipedia
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Alfred Tennyson

E. P Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Keenan Pepper
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
P. L. Travers

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
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Ivan Turgenev

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Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Giambattista Vico

From the Wikimedia Commons
Francois Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Booker T. Washington

1911 photograph (cropped)
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Max Weber

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienFranz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Tennessee Williams

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Wolfe

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
Cao Xueqin

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Gene Luen Yang

Library of Congress
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Paul Zindel

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