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Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Scott Adams

Aeschylus.

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
A. R. Ammons

Anonymous

Hannah Arendt

Aristotle.,

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Donald Barthelme

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

John Barth

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Simone de Beauvoir

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Walter Benjamin

Henri Bergson

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Max Born

Public Domain
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

Martin Buber

Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Anthony Burgess

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Jesse L. Byock

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Karel Capek

Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Chekhov

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

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
R. G. Collingwood

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Hart Crane

Francis Crick

Patricia Curd

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)
Salvador Dalí

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

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

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

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

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

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
T. S. ELIOT

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Desiderius Erasmus

M. C. Escher

B. H. Fairchild

© Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Frantz Fanon

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Enrico Fermi

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Gustave Flaubert

Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

Jonathan Franzen

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Jean Genet

Reginald Gibbons

Marc Hauser
William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
A. C. Grayling

Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Ursula K. Le Guin

Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Seamus Heaney

Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Chris Hedges

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Herodotus.

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

Edward Hirsch

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Paul Hoover

Photograph by Maxine Chernoff.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Max Horkheimer

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

wikipedia
Eugene Ionesco

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Frank Kermode

JACK KEROUAC

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Yusef Komunyakaa

Photo by Lilithcat
Milan Kundera

Jacques Lacan

Edward William Lane

from the collection of Catherine Lane Poole Dupre
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Philip Larkin

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Primo Levi

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Marina Lewycka

John Long

Lucretius

Jean François Lyotard

Ernest Mach

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (1900)
Herbert Marcuse

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
John Miller

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

Jacques Monod

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Paul Muldoon

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tim O'Reilly

Joi Ito
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Milorad Pavic

Octavio Paz

Fernando Pessoa

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Polybius

Karl Popper

Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Kenneth Rexroth

Rainer Maria Rilke

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSalman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Francis A. Schaeffer

© 2007 by Steve Mitchell
Erwin Schrodinger

E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
W. G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Bruno Snell

National Geographic Society

Sontag Susan

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Mark Strand

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Wislawa Szymborska

Paul Theroux

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

Thucydides.

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J.R.R. Tolkien

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Parker Tyler

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

from wikipedia
Giambattista Vico

From the Wikimedia Commons
Virgil.

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

WaiteArthurE

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

James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
Evelyn Waugh

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

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

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

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

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Wikipedia
Charles Wright

eralon
Adam Zagajewski

Adam Zagajewski in 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik
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