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Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Ivo Andrić

Anonymous

Mikhail Artsybashev

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer

E. A. Baratynsky

1860 lithograph from an 1820s drawing by A. Lebedev.
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
K. N. Batyushkov

Drawing by O. Kiprensky, 1815
Walter Benjamin

David Bergman

Jennifer Bishop
Adolfo Bioy Casares


Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok

Jorge Luis Borges

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Kay Boyle

Bertolt Brecht

Hermann Broch

Anne Bronte

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)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

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

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Ivan Cankar

Engraving on the 10000-tolar banknote
Truman Capote

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

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Colette

from Wikipedia
John Collier

Frederick Copleston

Hart Crane

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Astolphe De Custine

Wikipedia
Don DeLillo

A. A. Delvig

Lithograph by V. P. Langer, 1830
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
John Donne

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

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
George Eliot

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Dan Fesperman

Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Gustave Flaubert

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Robert Frost

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

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Genet

Louise Glück

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de

Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol

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

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Peter J. Gomes

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
A. S. Griboyedov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128269)
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thích Nhat Hanh

Jaroslav Hašek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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)
Richard Holbrooke

US Federal Government
Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
Homer

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

Photographer unknown
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Henry James

Wikipedia
James Joyce

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

V. K. Küchelbecker

1820s etching
John Keats

Omar Khayyám

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Danilo Kiš

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Heinrich Von Kleist


Edvard Kocbek

Kocbek monument by sculptor Bostjan Drinovec, 2004. Tivoli Park, Ljubljana. Photo by R. Grau.
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Selma Lagerlöf

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

David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
David Leddick

Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Primo Levi

Federico Garcia Lorca

Robert Lowell

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Osip Mandelshtam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Charles Robert Maturin

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

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu

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)
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Jan Morris

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
V. F. Odoyevsky

An 1850s portrait
Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Po Chü-i

Liuhou Temple & Park, Liuzhou City, China. Photo by David Schroeter / Flickr.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Milorad Pavic

Fernando Pessoa

Luigi Pirandello

Andrey Platonov

©The Random House Group
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Gojmir Polajnar

Photo by Miha Prijatelj.
France Prešeren

A portrait of France Prešeren by Božidar Jakac
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Kenneth Rexroth

Rainer Maria Rilke

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Detail of a group portrait at Camp Cobbossee in West Gardiner, Maine, in August, 1897.
Theodore Roethke

Joseph Roth

Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tomaž Šalamun

M. Biedrzycki
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Charles Simic

Library of Congress
Susan Sontag

George Steiner

Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Wisława Szymborska

Ivan Tavčar

Portrait of Dr. Ivan Tavčar, by Jurij Šubic, 1885
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Colm Tóibín

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
L. N. Tolstoy

public domain
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

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

Photo © Diana Walker
F. I. Tyutchev

Степан Фёдорович Александровский (d. 1906)
Lao-Tzu

Dubravka Ugresic

Wikimedia Commons
Oton Župančič

An image of Oton Župančič
D. V. Venevitinov

Portrait by A. Lagrenée, 1826
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Paul Virilio

Photo by GASTEV - "Live" democracy is in my opinion no longer democracy.
David Foster Wallace

John Waters

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Evelyn Waugh

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

Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
Edmund White

Walt Whitman

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
William Carlos Williams

Brenda Wineapple

2003 Joyce Ravid
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
John Woolman

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)
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Slavoj Žižek

Photo by Andy Miah
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