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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Eric Alterman

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Anne Applebaum

Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Reza Aslan

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Andrew Bacevich

Kalman Zabarsky
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Pat Barker

Dave Barry

Sebastian Barry

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
Nicholas A. Basbanes

Stephen Batchelor

Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Charles Baxter

Henri Bergson

Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Philip Bobbitt

Matthew Fuller
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
David Boren

This photo was taken by me. (countrylife)(March 2008)
Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ray Bradbury

Art Buchwald

Matthew Budman

Photo by Cristina Beltrán
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
David Burke

David Burke, cookbook author.
Photo by Jerry Ruotolo
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Lewis Carroll

Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Michel du Cille
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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
Amy Chua

Larry D. Moore
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
David Corn

David Crystal

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

E. E. Cummings

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

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Dawkins

John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jared Diamond

Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Gustave Dore

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

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

Photo by J. Tomas Lopez
Alan Dugan

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Marian Wright Edelman

David Edmonds

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
T.S. Eliot

William Empson

John Burlinson
Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
Barry M. Farber

Barry Farber.
Niall Ferguson

David Ferry

Professor Orlando Figes

Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Robert Fisk

Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Alan Furst

William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jorie Graham

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Lady Gregory

From Wikimedia Commons
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Halberstam

Ron Hale-Evans

Photo by Marty Hale-Evans
Daniel Halpern

Mary Cross
Alexander Hamilton

Thich Nhat Hanh

Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Peter Hart

Robert Hass

S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Chris Hedges

Richard Heinberg

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Herodotus

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Edward Hirsch

Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
John Hollander

Homer

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

Jerry Bauer
Karen Horney

1938 photograph (Wikipedia Commons)
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Michael Isikoff

Emily Schneider
Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Robert Jensen

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
David Cay Johnston

c. 2007, Molly Leonard
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Terry Jones

James Joyce

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

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

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Ted Kooser

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Milan Kundera

James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Charles Kupchan

Center for American Progress
Michael Kurland

Photo by Burser
Paul Kurtz

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurtz-1-.color.jpg.
George Lakoff

Brian Lamb

Brain Lamb (left) being congratulated at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, 2007. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Anne Lamott

Lewis Lapham

Frances Moore Lappe

Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Anatol Lieven

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Federico Garcia Lorca

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Niccolo Machiavelli

Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
John McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Bruce Manning Metzger

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
John Milton

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bill Moyers

Craig Nelson

Kathryn Millan
Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Staff of The New York Public Library

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

Sandro Michahelles
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Geoffrey Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Hank Nuwer

Photo of Hank Nuwer by Kat
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michel Onfray

Michael B. Oren

George Orwell

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kevin Phillips

Clifford Pickover

Richard Dickison
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Mary Pipher

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Francine Prose

Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Kenneth Rexroth

Thomas E. Ricks

Credit: Terry Ballard, 2007
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
J. K. Rowling

John Sandford

John R. Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Yasser Seirawan

Yasser Seirawan (1960- ), 2003 U.S. Chess Championships, Seattle, Washington. Photo by James F. Perry.
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Jeff Sharlet

Greg Martin
Mary Wollstonecraft 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)
Michael Shermer

Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Mordecai Siegal

Photograph by Shel Secunda
Joan Silber

Joan Silber (center) at the post-ceremony
reception at 3rd annual Story Prize
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJeremy Silman

© 2002 by James F. Perry, Seattle, Wash.
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Adam Smith

Arthur Smith

Judith Welch
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

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

Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Mark Strand

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Robert A. F. Thurman

Photo by Tenzin Nyima
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Lewis Turco

Mac Photobooth/Lewis Turco
Ivan Turgenev

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

Sun Tzu

Various

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
Kurt Vonnegut

Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Charles Wheelan

Walt Whitman

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

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Douglas L. Wilson

Library of Congress
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
William Wordsworth

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

Karen M. Peluso
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Kevin Young

Library of Congress
Philip Zimbardo

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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