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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Joseph Addison

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

Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Edward Albee

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)
Sherwood Anderson

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

Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes


W. H. Auden


Jane Austen

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

Mikhail Bakhtin

Djuna Barnes

public domain
J. M. Barrie

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

Walter Benjamin

David Bevington

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

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

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

M.E. Braddon

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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Martin Buber

John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

Kenneth Burke

Frances Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burns

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
George Gordon Byron

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)
Willa Cather

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

from Wikipedia
J. M. Coetzee

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
I. Compton-Burnett

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Nilo Cruz

Jennifer Reiley
David Crystal

David Damrosch

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
John Donne

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

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
John Dryden

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Emily Eden

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.

George Eliot

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

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.
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Euripides

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Ernest Fenollosa

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
M. Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Andre Gide

1893
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Paul Gilroy

George Gissing

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Louise. GLUCK

Nadine Gordimer

Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
A. C. Grayling

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Edith Hamilton


Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Harriet Ann Jacobs

wikipedia

Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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

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

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats

Frank Kermode

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Stephen King

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

Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

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 La Fayette

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
George Lamming

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

Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
David Lewis

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.)
Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Wyndham Lewis

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Anita Loos

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

Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Niccolo Machiavelli

S MALLARME

Wikipédia France
David MAMET

Brigitte Lacombe
Allen Mandelbaum

©Wake Forest University. Used with permission.

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Paule Marshall

Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Winsor McCay

1906
Scott McCloud

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

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

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)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
David G. Myers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Anais Nin

Flannery O'Connor

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Ann Petry

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

Michael Eastman
Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Thomas Pynchon

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
I.A. Richards

Samuel Richardson

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wientheodore roethke

Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Arundhati Roy

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

Ferdinand la Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Olive Schreiner

Ratsumies Peter Halket Mashonamaasta (published in 1909 in Finland), by Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), translated by Aino Malmberg (1865–1933).
Walter Sir Scott

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

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Sophocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis STEVESON

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

From Wikipedia
Alfred Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
William York Tindall

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

Wikipedia Commons
L. N. Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Violet Trefusis

John Burlinson
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Helena Maria Viramontes

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Rebecca West

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

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Antonia White

Time Warner Books UK
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)
Tennessee Williams

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

Edmund Wilson

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

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wycherley

William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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