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Edwin A Abbott

From Wikipedia
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Vittorio Alfieri

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Lancelot Andrewes

Frontispiece from a 17th-century book of sermons
Anonymous

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Drawing by Simon Fieldhouse
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J G Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Henri Barbusse

Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Matsuo Bashō

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Walter Benjamin

Thomas Bernhard

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aneurin Bevan

Statue of Bevan in Cardiff. Photo by Kaihsu Tai (2005).
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Frederic Bowles

Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady
Chaz Brenchley

Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
Hermann Broch

John Broderick

Kenny's Irish Bookshop
Charlotte Bronte

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

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Janet Browne

Rikke Claeson
Martin Buber

Michelangelo

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Samuel Butler

Lewis Buzbee

A S Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron

John Calder

Carmen Callil

Monica Curtin
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
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)
Bo Carpelan

Teemu Rajala
John Le Carre

J L Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Benvenuto Cellini

Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Anton Chekhov

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

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

from Wikipedia
Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Jean Cocteau

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

from Wikipedia
Archibald Ross Colquhoun

I. Compton-Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
William Cowper

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
Aleister Crowley

David Crystal

Robertson Davies

Lydia Davis

Astra Desmond

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Donaghy

Michael Trevillion / Trevillion Images
Jennifer Donnelly

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret (Editor) Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Douglas Dunn

Fay Godwin
William James Durant

Selden Edwards

George Eliot

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

William Empson

John Burlinson
Church of England

Nave, Caterbury Cathedral. Image by Jim Bowen / Flickr.
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
William Faulkner

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

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Edward FitzGerald

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)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Tim Flannery

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Jean de la Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard A Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Wikipédia France
Charles Frazier

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
David Frost

Photo by R. D. Ward, United States Department of Defense (Cropped for Wikimedia)
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
Jane Gardam

Charles De Gaulle

Official photograph of de Gaulle, by Jean-Marie Marcel.
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Andre Gide

1893
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

William Goldman

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

E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Nadine Gordimer

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Alasdair Gray

A C Grayling

Henry Green

Paul Green

World Telegram & Sun photo by F. Palumbo, 1941 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-112304)
Jacob & Wilhelm 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.)
Francesco Guicciardini

Romesh Gunesekera

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
James Hall

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Shirley Hazzard

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Michael Heller

Simon James
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Geoffrey Hill

Edward Hirsch

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
James Hogg

Homer

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Christopher Isherwood

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Dan Jacobson

C.L.R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Richard Jefferies

Wikipedia
Philip Jenkins

Courtesy of Philip Jenkins
Jerome K Jerome

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Jonathan Keates

Jerry Bauer
John Keats

Jesse Kellerman

John F Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Hugh Kenner

Frank Kermode

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Heinrich Von Kleist

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Hari Kunzru

Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Par Lagerkvist

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
George Lamming

George Lamming, 1955. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-114409)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Mikhail Lermontov

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Daniel J Levitin

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Robert Lowell

Alison (Editor) Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Hugh MacDiarmid

Bust of Hugh MacDiarmid, South Gyle, Scotland. Photo by user MacRusgail / English Wikipedia.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Claudio Magris

Gustav Mahler

Nelson Mandela

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Gabriel García Márquez

Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Alexander Masters

Autobiography nominee Alexander Masters (left)
chats with poetry winner Troy Jollimore
at the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGuy de Maupassant

Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Eugene McCabe

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
John McCarthy

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
Tom McCarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Carson McCullers

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

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Billy Mills

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Paul Muldoon

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Hermann Nitsch

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Bengt Ohlsson

Johan Bengtsson
Tillie Olsen

Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
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
Emmeline Pankhurst

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Ian Patterson

David Peace

Charles Glover
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Silvio Pellico

Silvio Pellico. Wikimedia Commons.
Stef Penney

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Richard Pevear

Brigitte Lacombe
Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas de Quincey

Steve Reich

Ian Oliver, September 8, 2006
Samuel Richardson

Phil Rickman

copyright John Mason.
Peter Riley

Peter Riley
Rainer Marie Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Marilynne Robinson

Georges Rodenbach

Georges Rodenbach. Frontispiece from Georges Rodenbach (1920) by Georges Ramaekers
Franklin D Roosevelt

Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienBruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
George Seferis

Photo by user Klearchoskapoutsis / Greek Wikipedia.
Maurice Sendak

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Richard Sennett

Photo by Lilithcat
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Owen Sheers

My image.
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Helen Simpson

Derek Thompson
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Magnus Fröderberg, Nordbild, www.norden.org
Zoe Skoulding

Photo by jd lennon / Flickr
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Jean Stafford

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

Christina Stead

Flora A. Steel

Published by W. Heinemann, 1903
George Steiner

Gertrude Stein

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

Anne Stevenson

Library of Congress
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
John Millington Synge

From Wikipedia
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Frank Tallis

Nicola Fox
Andrew Taylor

© Caroline Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
William M Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Margaret Thatcher

NASA
Dylan Thomas

David Thomson

Lucy Gray
Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Ivan Turgenev

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

Virgil

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

Izaak Walton

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

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Alan Weisman

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Rebecca West

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Janwillem van de Wetering

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
William Wharton

Anna Wigley

Gomer Publishers: Anna Wigley
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
William Carlos Williams

Edmund Wilson

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

Frances Wilson by her Grandson Ged.
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP G Wodehouse

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
James Woodforde

abbottthomas
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Ronald Wright

Nick Wiebe
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Andrew Young

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Louis Zukofsky

Photo of Zukofsky alone, by Elsa Dorfman
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
Stefan Zweig

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