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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Sherwood Anderson

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Marcel Ayme

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Joseph Bédier

www.academie-francaise.fr

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Ray Bradbury

Johannes Brahms

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton (trans.)

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
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)
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Chekhov

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

from Wikipedia
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia

Theodore Dreiser

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
William Gibson

Ursula L. Le Guin

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
George Frideric Handel

Wikipedia Commons.

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer

Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
DuBose Heyward

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace; trans. W. G. Shepherd

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Henrik Ibsen

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

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
James Joyce

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

Ken Kesey

Rudyard Kipling

Par Lagerkvist

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Niccolò Machiavelli

Gustav Mahler

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

John Milton

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.

Vladmir Nabokov

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
John dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Petronius

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Abbé Prévost

Wikipédia France

Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jean-Paul Sartre

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
D. Schostakowitsch

Office of War Information, 1942
Robert SILVERBERG

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Sophocles


Wallace Stegner

Igor Stravinsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-32392
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
J. R. R. Tolkien

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia

John Updike

Martha Updike
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

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

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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