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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field

Henry Adams

Robert Aitken

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Anonymous

Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Aristotle

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

©Rowena
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
Louis Auchincloss

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

Saint Augustine

Isaac Babel

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J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Alessandro Barbero

Henri Barbusse

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Antony Beevor

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton, artist
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 16, 1935
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-42517)
Ingmar Bergman

Henri Bergson

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Wendell Berry

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

Franz Borkenau

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

Rodric Braithwaite

H. W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Fernand Braudel

Hermann Broch

Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Martin Buber

Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Maj.Gen. Robert Lee Bullard.

www-cgsc.army.mil
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
George Washington Cable

1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)
Gaius Julius Caesar

public domain
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Fritjof Capra

Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Girolamo Cardano

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Richard Carwardine

Paul Eros
Bruce Catton

Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James Chace

Photograph by Enrico Ferorelli
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Upamanyu Chatterjee

John Cheever

Anton Chekhov

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

Fromm Wikipedia
G. K. Chesterton

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Craig Childs

Photo by Bruce Hucko
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eleanor Clark

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Carl von Clausewitz

John Collier

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Ivy Compton-Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Benedetto Croce

E.E. Cummings

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Dorothy Day

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Alfred Doblin

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

John Donne

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

John Burlinson
Norman Douglas

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Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Eamon Duffy

Fu Du

From Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Elaine Dundy

Eckermann

Johann Joseph Schmeller (1825)
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
David Eisenhower

Credit: White House Photo Office, 1973
(National Archives and Records Administration,
Collection NS-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection,
ARC identifier: 194541)
George Eliot

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

Stanley Elkins

Credit: E.F. Winerock
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Faulkner

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

Tony Rinaldo
Felix Feneon

Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (in front of an enamel of a rhythmic background of measures and angles, shades and colors), 1890
Niall Ferguson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

David Ferry

LUdwig Feuerbach

Orlando Figes

David Hackett Fischer

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
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
Marshall Foch

Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Shelby Foote

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
C. S. Forester

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

Felix Frankfurter

Wikipedia & Library of Congress
George MacDonald Fraser

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressCarlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson

Jack Gilbert

Julio Granda
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Goncharov

Angelica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Lewis L. Gould

Perseus Books Group
Ulysses S. Grant

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

The William Graves Collection
Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Romano Guardini

http://www.helmut-zenz.de/
William Hague

Photo by openDemocracy / Flickr, edited by LT uploader.
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harewood

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (center). Image ©
ÖNB/Wien
Stephen Harrigan

Matt Lankes
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
B.H.Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Peter Hart

Robert Hass

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Zbigniew Herbert

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Christopher Hibbert

Gilbert Highet

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

Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, Lincoln scholar and Co-Chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 2009 Commission
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Sir Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgWilliam Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Johan 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
Samual Hynes

photo: David Dobkin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Robinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
James Joyce

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

Franz]. [Mod Lib]. [Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Michael Kazin

Center for American Progress
Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Murray Kempton

Photo by Al Ravenna, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-126477
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac

Ian Kershaw

Count Harry Kessler

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-36336)
(cropped)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Paul Klee

Heinrich von Kleist

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Gyula Krudy

Photo by user Misibacsi / Hungarian Wikipedia

Milan Kundera


Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Dorothea Lange

Philip Larkin

Lautreamont

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
H. C. Lea

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert E. Lee

Photo by Julian Vannerson (Library of Congress)

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Carlo Levi

Meriwether Lewis

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

John Burlinson
Hunter Liggett

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Torgny Lindgren

Hannibal
Livy

from Wikipedia
Christopher Logue

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lu Yu

Wikipedia
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Claudio Magris

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Joseph De Maistre

wikimedia - portrait by Karl Vogel von Vogelstein, ca. 1810
Stephane Mallarme

Wikipédia France
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Garcia Marques

Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Guy de Maupassant

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Horace McCoy

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
James M. McPherson

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

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
W. S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
henry miller

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

Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Theodor Mommsen

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

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
George Moore

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel Eliot Morrison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
George L. Mosse

used by permission of the
Mosse Program in History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Frederick W. Mote

Prof. Frederick Mote. Photo by Robert Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Paul Muldoon

Cullen Murphy

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Robert Musil

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Flannery O'Connor

Yuri Olesha

From Wikipedia
George Orwell

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

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
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Francis. Parkman

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

JOHN DOS PASSOS

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Roberto Pazzi

Roberto Pazzi
George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Jaroslav Pelikan


Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
John Joseph Pershing

Harris & Ewing
Petronius

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Nathaniel Philbrick

Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Luigi Pirandello

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Andrei Platonov

©The Random House Group
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Robert Polito

Robert Polito (1951- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Roy Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
Raja Rao

Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Ernest Renan

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

Kenneth Rexroth

David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
James Ford Rhodes

Leonard L. Richards

Theresa Richards

Rainer Maria Rilke

Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Andrea di Roblilant

Photo © Jerry Bauer

Marilynne Robinson

Jules Romains

Jules Romains, 1936. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Theodore Roosevelt

Joseph Roth


Steven Runciman

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)
Rafael Sabatini

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

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Father James V. Schall

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Stacy Schiff

Columbia University
Arthur Schelsinger

From Wikipedia.com
Leigh Schmidt

Prof. Leigh Eric Schmidt (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Erwin Schrodinger

Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Vincent Joseph Scully

Vincent Scully. White House photo by Susan Sterner.
George Seferis

Photo by user Klearchoskapoutsis / Greek Wikipedia.
Victor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Hershel Shanks

Irwin Shaw

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
William Tecumseh Sherman

E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Hampton Sides

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Ignazio Silone

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

Photograph by Marcia Simon
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick

Gary Snyder

1990s
Jason Sokol

Betsy Sokol
Susan Sontag

Georges Sorel

Stephen Spender

Oswald Spengler

Jon Stallworthy

Library of Congress
Rodney Stark

courtesy of Prof. Rodney Stark
Christina Stead

John Steinbeck

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

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883) Stephens

Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, etching from a photograph.
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 17, 1935 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-103681)
I. F. Stone

Kzitelman
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Suetonius.

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
John SZARKOWSKI


Wislawa Szymborska

Tacitus

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Torquato Tasso

wikimedia commons
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Dylan Thomas


Edward Thomas

Poems, 1917
Hunter S. Thompson

Mark Thompson

Susan Forrest (LT Mark Thompson #1)
06-02-09 Stonewall Anniversary History panel, City of West Hollywood.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Arnold J Toynbee

Georg Trakl

Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Ivan Turgenev

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

Wikipedia
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard
Linwood Urban

Swarthmore College
Robert M. Utley

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Paul Valéry

Various

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Anonymous photographer
Paul Verlaine

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

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

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
David Wagoner

Robin Seyfried
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

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

carl.army.mil
Geoffrey Wawro

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Loren Bonser
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Simone Weil

Steven Weinberg

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Eudora Welty

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Richard Wilbur

Sean Wilentz

Prof. Sean Wilentz (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John Williams

William Carlos Williams

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Edmund Wilson

Courtesy of the
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Yvor Winters

Courtesy Kenneth Fields
Geoffrey Wolff

Tony Rollo

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Thomas Wyatt, Sir

Sir Thomas Wyatt, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
Xenophon

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

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Adam Zamoyski

Wyklety
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Bruno Zevi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zevi.png
Stefan Zweig

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