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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
James Agee

Jamil Al-Amin

Credit: Marion S. Trikosco, July 27, 1967 (U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-01263)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jorge Amado

Jean-Loup Amselle

Esby
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Mário de Andrade

Author Unknown. Mário de Andrade (seated), Anita Malfatti (seated, center) e Zina Aita (left of Anita), in São Paulo, Brazil, 1922, by occasion of the Semana de 22 Exhibition in the São Paulo Municipal Theatre.
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Herbert Aptheker

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Frank Martinus

Photo by user We El / Wikimedia Commons.
Christopher P. Baker

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Richard Bauman

Courtesy of Indiana University
Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (1911-1988), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 15, 1944 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-42507)
James Beard

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Jr. Lerone Bennett

John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Bernard Berenson

James Berry

This image of James Berry, hangman and executioner, is scanned from the author's work MY EXPERIENCES AS AN EXECUTIONER (1892).
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Michael Blumenthal

W. Michael Blumenthal (b. 1926) / Painting by Everett Raymond Kinstler
Franz Boas

In collection of American Philosophical Society, F8.1.16.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Arna Bontemps

Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, Aug. 15, 1939 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-6356)
Jorge Luis Borges

Fernand Braudel

Jean Breeze

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whipple
John Bregenzer

Breton André

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
William Byrd

from Wikipedia
Camus Albert

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ernesto Cardenal

photo by Linda Lambert
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Fidel Castro

Paul Cézanne

Self-portrait, circa 1883-1887
(Yorck Project)
Robert (Edited) Chambers

from Memoir of Robert Chambers. W.& R. Chambers, 1872. (Title page.)
colin (ed.) channer

David Shankbone, September 2007
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Daniel Chavarria

Austin Clarke

Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Catherine Clément

Esby
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Jonathan Coe

J. M. Coetzee

David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
R. G. Collingwood

Jean Comaroff

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Maryse Condé

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Richard Henry Dana

Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Hassoldt Davis

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

Rachel Eliza Griffith
Junot DIAZ

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Régis Debray

Régis Debray in 1970
Jack Delano

Credit: Gordon Parks, Sept. 1942
John Demers

Greg Dening

Courtesy of Greg Dening.
Jacques Derrida

Dave Dewitt

E.L. Doctorow

Frederick Douglass

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

Cigarette card (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Katherine Dunham

World Telegram photo by Phyllis Twachtman, 1956
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ppmsca-05792)
Emile Durkheim

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Eleanor Early

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

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

Brian Leon, September 8, 2007
T. S. Eliot

James Elkins

Stanley M. Elkins

Credit: E.F. Winerock
Ralph Ellison

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.
Frantz Fanon

Paul Farmer

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)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Robert William Fogel

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Jean de La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Gilberto Freyre

Eduardo Adonias Aguiar Eadonias
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Cristina Garcia

Norma Quintana
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Marcus Garvey

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-109627)
Gates Henry Louis Jr. (ed)

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Arnold Genthe

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-G405-T-0048)
Joshua R. Giddings

Joshua Reed Giddings (1795-1864)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Paul Gilroy

Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Graham Greene

Ernesto Guevara

Alberto Korda
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Jack Hirschman

Photo by Kel Munger.
Philip Hanson Hiss

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

bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
W. H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
William Humphrey

Hurston Zora Neale

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
G. Cabrera Infante

Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Michael Jackson

Crop from bigger picture. Taken by Päivi Kuusjärvi, Helsinki Beer Festival, April 2004.
C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) James

James Weldon Johnson

Photo taken circa 1920s
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Imamu Amiri Baraka

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Willliam Melvin Kelley

Carl Van Vechten (Library of Congress Collection)
George Kennan

Photo circa 1870-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128296)
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Joseph Kerman

Jack Kerouac

Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

A. de Kom

Milan Kundera

William Labov

William J. Poser
George. Lamming

George Lamming, 1955. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-114409)
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Jill Lepore

Dari Michele
Julius Lester

Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
David L. Lewis

Columbia University
Peter Linebaugh

M. Brooks
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax playing guitar on stage at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Lomax Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-00433)
(cropped)
John Avery Lomax

John Lomax collection, Library of Congress
Federico Garcia Lorca

Glenville Lovell

Judy Lawne
Robert Lowell

André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Manning Marable

Photo by David Shankbone, September 2007
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wynton Marsalis

feinsteinphotos, 2004-01-01
Paule Marshall

José Martí

wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Claude McKay

Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-105919)
John H. McWhorter

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Molière,

Wikipédia France
Alberto Moravia

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
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
John; Foreword by Lindbergh Nance, Charles A.

Pablo Neruda

Blair Niles

Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries
Anaïs Nin

Elizabeth Nunez

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Barack Obama

Frederick Law Olmsted

c. 1850
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Pan American Union, Washington D.C.
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Octavio Paz

Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Richard Price

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

Sally Price
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

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

Albert J. Raboteau

Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Relligion, Princeton University. Photo by J.T. Miller, 1990 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh
Painting by Nicolas Hilliard, circa 1585
(Yorck Project)
Sir Herbert Edward Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Marcus Rediker

Used with permission from author, Marcus Rediker.
Leni Riefenstahl

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Robert A. Rosenstone

Ruth Miller
Peter Rose

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes

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

Mariam C. Said
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
David Scott

Astronaut David R. Scott (Photo created by NASA)
William Seabrook

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Smiley Jane

Elena Seibert
Robert Freeman Smith

U.S. Representatives Historical Office
Charmaine Solomon

Rodney Weidland
Susan Sontag

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Barbara Maria Stafford

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Edward Steichen

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

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-29225)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Robert Tallant

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

© Dan Vaillancourt
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo,

Public-Conversations
Sarah Grey Thomason

William J. Poser
Jean Toomer

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

Albert Valdman

Courtesy of Indiana University
Kurt (Signed) Vonnegut

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Immanuel Wallerstein

Yale University
John Walsh

President Bush signs H.R. 4472, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, as John Walsh, center, and his wife, Reve Walsh, look on. The bill is named for the Walsh’s six-year-old son Adam Walsh who was abducted and killed 25 years ago.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Allen (ed.) Weinstein

Courtesy of the National Archives
Lawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
John Edgar Wideman

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Robin W. Winks

Michael Marsland / Yale University
Richard Wright

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

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

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