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Endre Ady

Anna Achmatova

wikimedia commons
Boris Akunin

Vittorio Alfieri

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Edmondo De Amicis

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und
praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ivo Andric

Anonimo

Apuleio

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Lodovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Antonia Arslan

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nadeem Aslam

Jerry Bauer
Miguel Angel Asturias

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Isaak Babel

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

Statue of Mihály Babits, Szekszárd, Hungary. Photo by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Ingeborg Bachmann

David Baldacci

Library of Congress

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Simone : de Beauvoir

Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Samuel Beckett


Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Ingmar Bergman

Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Boccaccio

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

Project Gutenberg
Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Bertolt Brecht

Max Brod

Wikipedia
Martin Buber


Mihail Afanas?evic Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri


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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carré

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Benvenuto Cellini

Marc Chagall

Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-USZ62-42495)
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Cechov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Marco Tullio Cicerone

from Wikipedia
E.M. Cioran

Manfred Clauss

Jean Cocteau

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

J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Cornwell

Géza Csáth

Bust of Geza Csath, Subotica, Serbia. Photo by user Piroska / Hungarian Wikipedia.
Didier Daeninckx

Ralf Dahrendorf

Ralf Dahrendorf, 2003. Photo by Holger Noß / Wikimedia Commons.
Gabriele D'Annunzio

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

Andrea De Carlo

www.andreadecarlo.com
Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Don Delillo

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Walt Disney

Alfred Döblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
E. L. Doctorow

Fedor M. Dostojevskij

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

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

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Alexandre Dumas

Mátyás Dunajcsik

Eamon Dunphy

wikipedia
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Bob Dylan

Johann Peter Eckermann

Johann Joseph Schmeller (1825)
Umberto Eco

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

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Albert Einstein

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

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Andreas Eschbach

from the author
Péter Esterházy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Francis 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
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Madox Ford Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Ugo Foscolo

François-Xavier-Pascal Fabre (1813).
Anatole France

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

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Max Frisch

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

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Géza Gárdonyi

Bust of Géza Gárdonyi, Szeged, Hungary. Photo by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
André Gide

1893
Johann Wolfgang : von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaj Vasil?evic Gogol ?

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

Carlo Goldoni

Gary Goldschneider

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Gonciarov

Nadine Gordimer

Maksim Gorkij

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

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Günter Grass

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

David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Christoph Hein

Photo by Hubert Link. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-051)
Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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)
Nazim Hikmet

James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Heinrich Hoffmann

Wikimedia Commons
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Omero

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo by Wendy Slattery / Flickr.
David Irving

March 2003: David Irving at 65 photograph outside Public Records office (National Archives) London
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection

Henry James

Wikipedia
Tahar Ben Jelloun

K. Jerome Jerome

Mór Jókai

Photo taken in 2006 by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
James Joyce

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

Statue of Attila József, Szeged, Hungary. Photo by user Váradi Zsolt / Wikimedia Commons.
Franz Kafka

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Etgar Keret

Moti Kakayon (מוטי קיקיון)
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Heinrich von Kleist

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Leszek Kolakowski

Credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 2007
Gyula Krùdy

Photo by user Misibacsi / Hungarian Wikipedia

Milan Kundera

Marie Madeleine : Pioche de la Vergne La Fayette, comtesse de

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Alphonse : de Lamartine

Wikipédia France
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
David H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Vladimir I. Lenin

Michail J. Lermontov

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

Primo Levi

Matthew G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Robert Littell

Philippe Mats
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
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)
Federico García Lorca

Carlo Lucarelli

Jaqen
Gyorgy Lukacs

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Niccolo MacHiavelli


Claudio Magris

Nagib Mahfuz

Photo © Barry Iverson
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Heinrich Mann


Thomas Mann

Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Herbert Marcuse

Pierre Marivaux

Wikipedia
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Pietro Mascagni

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35628
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Vladimir Majakovskij

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Giuseppe Mazzini

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

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Patrick McGrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Daniel Mendelsohn

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganEduardo Mendoza

Miguel A. Monjas
Robert Merle

Wikipédia France
Kálmán Mikszáth

Bust of Kálmán Mikszáth, Szeged, Hungary. Photo by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Henry Miller

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

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

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Indro Montanelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montanell-a-Milano-1992.jpg
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Moshiri Farnoosh

Ferenc Móra

Zsigmond Móricz

Rippl-Rónai József (1861–1927)
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Robert Musil


Vladimir Vladimirovic Nabokov

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

Pablo Neruda

Martin Andersen Nexo

Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Novalis

Edna O ? Brien

Flann J. O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Juan Carlos Onetti

Emma Orczi

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Arto Paasilinna

Matti Järvinen
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Giuseppe Parini

from http://olharfeliz.typepad.com/pastels/
(portrait by Giuseppe Pietro Mazzola, 1793)
Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Fernando Pessoa

Carlo Petrini

Jean Piaget

John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Luigi Pirandello

Ignacio Martínez de Pisón

Adoratio
Sylvia Plath

Plutarco

Melissa P.

Karl R. Popper

Chaim Potok

Marcel Proust

Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin

courtesy Wikipedia
Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
Patrick Rambaud

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Leopold von Ranke

Julius Schrader (d. 1900)
Hubert Reeves

Original source:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubert_Reeves.jpg
Photographie d'Hubert Reeves prise par l'utilisateur Gingko le 5 juin 2004
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Samuel Richardson

Rainer M. Rilke

Romain Rolland

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Joseph Roth

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Louis de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J. D. Salinger

José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
Jean Paul Sartre

Friedrich Schiller

Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienArthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Ingo Schulze

Credit: Caren Müller, 2004, Berlin, Germany

Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Luis Sepúlveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Meir Shalev

Beny Shlevich
George Bernard Shaw

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Kennan Papers
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-128247)
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Ignazio Silone

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.
Georges Simenon

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

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

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Wislawa Szymborska

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoj

public domain
Georg Trakl

Lev Trotskij

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130

Ivan Sergeevic Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Gore Vidal

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

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Martin Walser

Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons
Simone Weil

Otto Weininger

Franz Werfel

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

from Wikipedia
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)
Robert McLiam Wilson

Courtesy of Random House UK
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Abraham B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Muhammad Yunus

Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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