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Douglas Adams

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Samuel Beckett

Yogi Berra

Photo taken by Wikipedia user "Googie Man"
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
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)
John Bunyan

John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

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

Noncorporeal
E. E. Cummings

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Fyodor Dostoevdky

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

from Wikipedia
Bob Dylan

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
J. J. Fux

From Wikimedia Commons
Neil Gaiman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Thich Nhat Hanh

Ernest Hemingway

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
James Joyce

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

Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid)

Joi Ito
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
C.S. Lewis

Federico Garcia Lorca

Paul McCartney

McCartney in February 1964, arriving in the US to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Pablo Neruda

George Orwell

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Rainer Maria Rilke

J.D. Salinger

Arnold Schoenberg

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
David Shields

Tom Collicott
Shel Silverstein

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

public domain
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Laozi

Kurt Vonnegut

Simone Weil

Oscar Wilde

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

Wikipedia
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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