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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Mortimer Adler

MDCarchives
James Agee

Edward Albee

Tariq Ali

A. Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

wikimedia commons
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer W.H. Auden

Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.J. Ayer

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Russell Baker

Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Bill Barich

David Timmos
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

John Barth

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Antony Beevor

Edward Bellamy

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

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Thomas Bernhard

Leonard Bernstein

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

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Ray Bradbury

Rick Bragg

Steven Forster
Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Dee Brown

Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
William F. Jr Buckley

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
James Macgregor Burns

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
John Le Carré

Lewis Carroll

Willa Sibert Cather

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

Bennett Cerf

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

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekov

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

Sigrid Estrada
G. K. Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
U.S. Catholic Church

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, 2003. Photo by John Workman / Wikipedia.
WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
John Cornwell

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Geza Csath

Bust of Geza Csath, Subotica, Serbia. Photo by user Piroska / Hungarian Wikipedia.
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Don Delillo

Alan M. Dershowitz

Robb Forman Dew

Howie Levitz
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E.L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Edited by Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Will Durant

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

T.S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Faulkner, and Cowley, Malcolm (Editor)

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

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Orlando Figes

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
Gustave Flaubert

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R. F. Foster

Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Viktor E. Frankel

James Frazer

Charles Frazier

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gail Godwin

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Ulysses S. Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Brothers 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.)
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Moss Hart

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)
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Lillian Hellman

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

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
JAMES HERRIOT

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Chaim Herzog

www.president.gov.il
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Edward Hirsch

Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Nancy Horan

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008.
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
J. HUIZINGA

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Wikipedia
William James

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

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

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)
C.J. Jung

Ken Kalfus

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
George F. Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
JOHN F. KENNEDY

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Ian Kershaw

Rudyard Kipling

Richard Kluger

© 2003 Phyllis Kluger
Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan Kundera

Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C. S Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A.J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Abraham Lincoln

Penelope Lively

Jack London

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Niccolo Machiavelli

Brenda Maddox

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Jean Marzollo

Andre (Introduction) Maurois

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
James M McPherson

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

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
H.L. Mencken

Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Jack Miles

Columbia University
Arthur Miller

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

MDCarchives
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Fred Moody

Alfredo Castaneda
Samuel Eliot Morrison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Bill D Moyers

Harry Mulisch

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Irene Nemirovsky

Richard E. Neustadt

New York Public Library

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Robert Nozick

Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Stephen B Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
John O'Hara

Frederick Law Olmsted

c. 1850
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

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

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Henry Petroski

Nathaniel Philbrick

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Henri Poincare

Karl R. Popper

Roy Porter

Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Emily Post

1912 photograph
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101761)
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Dorling Kindersley Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
Ronald Reagan

DoD photo, April 8, 1983 (DA-SC-90-03096)
Jean-Francois Revel

Jean Francois Revel polaroid portriat 1999 taken by Elsa Dorfman
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Phyllis Rose

Arthur Rubenstein

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seiberg
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Schama Simon

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Shel Silverstein

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
B.F. Skinner

PsychArt
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Adam Smith

Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Susan Sontag

Dale Spender

Monica Spender
Baruch Spinoza

Kevin Starr

John Steinbeck

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Margaret Thatcher

NASA
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Thomas

Dorothy Thompson

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-22284)
(cropped)
Henry Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Michel Tournier

Rose Tremain

Calvin Trillin

Lionel Trilling

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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

Wikipedia
Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Bruno Walter

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Alexander Waugh

Glyn Howells
Simone Weil

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Walt Whitman

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

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

I took this photo!
Edmund Wilson

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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