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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nava Atlas

Evan Atlas
David Attenborough

Shojo
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Letitia Baldridge

White House photo by Robert Knudsen (cropped by uploader): John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Ernest Becker

Samuel Beckett

Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Philip Bobbitt

Matthew Fuller
Boethius

Steve Bogira

© 2004 Jack Demuth
James Boswell

Ben Bova

Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Ray Bradbury

Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
David Brin

By R. Feist
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)
Terry Brooks

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
David Byrne

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Mark Caldwell

Photograph by Andrew Nahema
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Jim Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
David Crystal

Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Angela Y. Davis

Richard Dawkins

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Lester Del Rey

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stephen Dobyns

Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Umberto Eco

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
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.
Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Photographed by Edwin Locke, Feb. 1937
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-4225-M4)
William Faulkner

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

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

Michel Foucault

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
William Golding

Albert Gore

Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Sidonie M. Gruenberg

phosphorescent
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hitchens

Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Nick Hornby

Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgAldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Texas Instruments

Alan Mak
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Robert Jensen

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Manuel Komroff

Manuel Komroff, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Pär Lagerkvist

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Frances Moore Lappe

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C. S. Lewis

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Henry W. Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Glenn C. Loury

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Rosa Luxemburg

From Wikimedia Commons
Niccolò Machiavelli

Archibald MacLeish

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Arthur Miller

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

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Chris Mooney

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Institute for Liberal Studies
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

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

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederick Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Porphyry

Katherine Anne Porter

Emily Post

1912 photograph
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101761)
Peggy Post

Emily Price Post, 1873-1960, photo c1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-62205)
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
Man Ray,

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-63265 DLC
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Jeremy Rifkin

Marilynne Robinson

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Michel Roux

Phil Guest, March 23, 2008
Donald H. Rumsfeld

Official photograph as Secretary of Defense
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJean-Paul Sartre

Dan Savage

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Jen Sincero

Angela Ellsworth
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Benedict de Spinoza

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Rabindranath Tagore

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

Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

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

public domain
Laurence H. Tribe

Photo by Lilithcat
G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Thomas Tryon

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

Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Kurt Vonnegut

Tom Waits

en:User:Theplatypus
David Foster Wallace

Chris Ware

George Washington

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Donald A. Wollheim

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Laurence Yep

Paul Zindel

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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