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Christopher Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Jean Anouilh

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Antonin Artaud

Agrippa d' Aubigné

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

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marcel Aymé

Paris, place Marcel Aymé, le passe-muraille by Lalupa
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Maurice Barrès

wikipedia
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Bashō (芭蕉)

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Joseph Bédier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Thomas Bernhard

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Nicolas Boileau
Musée national du Château de Versailles, France.
Jorge Luis Borges

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

From "The Hundred Greatest Men," 1885 (UofTexas Public Domain Photo Gallery)
André Breton

Hermann Broch

Anthony Burgess

William Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
François-René de Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
Anton Pavlovitch Tchekhov

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Aziz Chouaki

E. M. Cioran

Jules Claretie

Imprimerie A. QUENTIN, Paris (1878).
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Jean Cocteau

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

Le Corbusier

Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Seymus Dagtekin

Michel Durigneux
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

From "Revue Illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Casimir Delavigne

Louis Huart, Charles Philipon, "Galerie de la presse, de la littérature et des beaux-arts", Paris, Aubert, vol. 1, 1839.
Gustave Doré

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

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

Wikipédia France
Jean Echenoz

Umberto Eco

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

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Robert Fisk

Gustave Flaubert

Joseph Fouché

Pierre Simon Fournier

Jean Genet

William Gibson

André Gide

1893
Jean Giraudoux

Painting by Jacques Émile Blanche, 1920.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nicolas Gogol

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

Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Julien Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Edith Hamilton

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
F.A. Hayek

Werner Heisenberg

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)
Friedrich Holderlin

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Eugène Ionesco

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Wikipedia
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Nikos Kazantzaki

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

Wikipedia
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武)

Rita Molnár (Cannes, 2000)
Rem Koolhaas

Milan Kundera

Madame de La Fayette

Alphonse de Lamartine

Wikipédia France
Comte de Lautréamont

Emmanuel Lévinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Niccolò Machiavelli

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Wikipédia France
André Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Clément Marot

Gabriel García Márquez

Henri Matisse

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-103699 DLC
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Robert Merle

Wikipédia France
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Philippe Meyer

Esby
John Stuart Mill

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

MDCarchives
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Jean Monnet

Deutsches Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F001192-0003
Foto: Unterberg, Rolf (1953-12-19)
Jacques Monod

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHaruki Murakami (村上春樹)

Elena Seibert
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵)

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Gérard de Nerval

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Charles Nodier

Amélie Nothomb

Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Luigi Pirandello

Platon

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Georges Pompidou

White House Photo Office (1973-05-31)
Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Antoine François Prévost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Satyajit Ray

Rishiraj Sahoo
Jean-François Revel

Jean Francois Revel polaroid portriat 1999 taken by Elsa Dorfman
Paul Ricœur

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
François de La Rochefoucauld

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Roger Lebacq
Sénèque

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, LC-USZ62-112307
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Kenneth Silverman

2003 Nancy Crampton
Adam Smith

Sophocle

Madame de Staël

Madame de Staël as Corinne by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1808.
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
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

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

Robert Scoble
Théophraste

From Wikipedia
Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leon Tolstoï

public domain
Michel Tournier

Lao Tseu

Sun Tzu

Paul Valéry

Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
François Villon

Virgile

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Christoph Martin Wieland

Portrait by Ferdinand Carl Christian Jagemann (1805)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienXenophon

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

John Burlinson
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

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