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Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Henry Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Boris Akunin

Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Rick Atkinson

Columbia University
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Roger Backhouse

University of Birmingham faculty webpage
Allan Hunt Badiner ed.

photo by Gregg Chadwick
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

Christopher Hirsheimer
Stephen Batchelor

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
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)
Андрей Белый

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Simon Benninga

Copyright © Prof Simon Benninga. All rights reserved.
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Fernand Braudel

Andre Breton

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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton (trans.)

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

Jerry Bauer

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Thomas Carlyle

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

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 Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
J. M. Coetzee

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Roméo Dallaire

Joshua Sherurcij
Richard Henry Dana


Richard Dawkins

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Kiran Desai

Jared M. Diamond


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Denis Diderot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)

Alexandre Dumas

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Eknath Easwaran, (trans.)

Monastic Dialogue
Umberto Eco

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

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

Ian Gittler
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau (right) with Ron Hogan,
San Diego Comic Con 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganMillicent Garrett Fawcett

Niall Ferguson

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Robert Fisk

Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Carlos Fuentes

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

William Gass / Washington University

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Henry George

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-37132
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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

Wikipédia France

Nikolai Gogol

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

The Warburg Institute
Ivan Goncharov

Maxim Gorki

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Brian Greene


Graham Greene

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Alexander Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

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

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Aidan Hartley

James Brabazon
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Paul Hawken

Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Herodotus

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hitchens

Homer

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

Jerry Bauer
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Colin Jones

James Joyce

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

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Jack Kerouac

Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

John Maynard Keynes

Ross King

Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
A. N. Kolmogorov

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
Paul R. Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Pierre-Ambrois-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)
Madame de Lafayette

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Comte de Lautreamont

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Mikhail Lermontov

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Yutang Lin

Library of Congress
David Liss

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
James Madison

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Benoit Mandelbrot

http://www.maa.org/students/chapter_news/ChapterNewsOct04.htm
Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995)
(Marxists Internet Archive)
Thomas Mann

Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Alfred Marshall

Economist Alfred Marshall
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Charles Robert Maturin

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

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

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Kevin M. McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy (photo by Jane Anderson Jones)
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Henry Miller

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

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

Nancy Mitford

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

Hugh Burnand
Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Thomas Nashe

Irene Nemirovsky

Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
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
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
George Pelecanos

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marisha Pessl

Kevin Phillips

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
David Pogue

Anna Politkovskaya

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
William Hickling Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

John Rawls

John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
David Ricardo

Samuel Richardson

Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Walter Rudin

Wikipedia
Bertrand Russell

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

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

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)

J.D. Salinger

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com

Jean-Paul Sartre

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Amartya Sen

USAID
Victor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Adam Smith

Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Gene Sperling

Center for American Progress

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Nancy L. Stokey

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gary Taubes

Lawrence Lederman
Bayard Taylor

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
The Clash

Photo credit: Aaron, March 21, 2005,
Austin graffito
(flickr user xraystyle)
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
J. R. R. Tolkien


Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Hal R. Varian

Joi Ito
Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Vladimir Voinovich

Galina Zakhoder
Francois Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

George Washington

Evelyn Waugh

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

from Wikipedia
Colson Whitehead

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007, Brooklyn Book Festival
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

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


Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

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