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Aeschylus

Kingsley Amis

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

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Jessica Anderson

Courtesy of the author.
Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

Elliott Arnold

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

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Simone de Beauvoir

Antony Beevor

Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

Thomas Berger

Georges Bernanos

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

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
David Bodanis

Edward De Bono

Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Tim Bowden

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Alexis Carrel

Lee Carroll

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Lewis Carroll

Brian Castro

Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Neville W. Cayley

Circa 1936, G.M. Matthews, National Library of Australia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Marcus Clarke

Wikimedia
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Jean Cocteau

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

Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
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)
Patricia Cornwell

Peter Corris

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
E.E. Cummings

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Dymphna Cusack

Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Marele Day

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
PETER DICKINSON

Ivan Helmer
Denis Diderot

Reader's Digest Association.

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Garry Disher

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
SIR ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
E. E. Dunlop

E.E.(Weary) Dunlop
Umberto Eco

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

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison


James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Marcellus Emants

Drawing by H.J. Haverman (1857-1928)
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Edna Ferber

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming


Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
C.S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Miles Franklin


George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Joseph Furphy

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42700)

Alan Furst

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Bill Gates

Theophile Gautier

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

Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Andre Gide

1893
W.S. Gilbert

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

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

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Seth Godin

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Benny Green

Tom Beetz, 2008.
Graham Greene

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Allan Gurganus

Uta Hagen

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

Photo by Barbara Hall
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Louise L. Hay

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Herodotus

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

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

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

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Oscar Hijuelos

E.J. Hobsbawm

David Hockney

Homer

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

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michel Houellebecq

A.E. Houseman

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Barry Humphries

WTCA
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Grant. Hyman

Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksSusan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Paul Jennings

Sue Jennings

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Diane Johnson

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Stan Jones

James Joyce

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Franz Kafka

M.M. (Ed.) Kaye

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

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

Rudyard Kipling

Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Peter D. Kramer

Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Choderlos De Laclos

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

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Henry Lawson

William Johnson (d. 1921)
Stephen Leacock

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

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

David Liss

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
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)
Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Shirley MacLaine

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Barry Maitland

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Thomas Mann

Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Andre Maurois

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

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt


Colleen McCullough

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Phillip C. McGraw

David McRobbie

Allen and Unwin Media Centre

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Kames A. Michener

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

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

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
(fbi.gov)
Steven Millhauser

A.A. Milne

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

Wikipédia France
Manuel Vazquez Montalban

ALan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Jan Morris

John Mortimer

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Henri Murger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Henry_Murger_in_1854.jpg
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
Lennart Nilsson

Vogler
Louis Nowra

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
FLANN O'BRIEN

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susie Orbach

George Orwell

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

David Shankbone, September 2007
Sara Paretsky

A. B. Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Henry Petroski

jodi picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Pindar

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Diana Preston

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Thomas PYNCHON

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Julian Rathbone

Piers Paul Read

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi De Retz, Cardinal

Henry Reynolds

Image copyright Henry Reynolds
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Don Richardson

Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins, life coach and speaker
Credit: Steve Jurvetson, 2006
Marilynne Robinson

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
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)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, duc de

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J.D. Salinger

Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Simon Scarrow

Picture from his website http://scarrow.co.uk
Richard Schechner

Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Gerald Seymour

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Irwin Shaw

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

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Edith Sitwell

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Christina Stead

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

wikimedia commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ivan S. Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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
Thornton Wilder

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Tennessee Williams

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Judith Wright

Xenophon

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)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Adam Zamoyski

Wyklety
Stefan Zweig

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