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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Theodor W. Adorno

Aeschylus

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Anonymous

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Antonin Artaud

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
M.M. Bakhtin

David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

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

John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Georg Buchner

Ernest Becker

Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

Walter Benjamin

Arnold Bennett

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

Daniel Berrigan

Credit: Kevin Ksen, 2005, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
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

Pierre Boulez

Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

Malcolm Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Bertolt Brecht

Andre Breton

Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
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)
Thomas Browne

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
John Bunyan

Edmund Burke

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
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)
Fritjof Capra

Ron Carlson

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Bruce Catton

Paul Celan

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Robert Chambers

from Memoir of Robert Chambers. W.& R. Chambers, 1872. (Title page.)
James K Chandler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
John Cheever

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Winston Churchhill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
U.S. Catholic Church

Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC, 2003. Photo by John Workman / Wikipedia.
J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
William Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
William Congreve

Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
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)
Robert Coover

Cid Corman

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
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
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

Wikipédia France
David Damrosch

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Dorothy Day

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen",
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
John Donne

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

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

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
John Dryden

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Emile Durkheim

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Maria Edgeworth

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

Columbia University
Sergei Eisenstein

George Eliot

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
George Van Eps

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Desiderius Erasmus

Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
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)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Stanley Fish

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Shelby Foote

C. S. Forester

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

Jonathan Franzen

James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Romulo Gallegos

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Jean Genet

André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
George Gissing

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

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

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Ivan Goncharov

Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
HALL CALVIN S.

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
David Halperin

Courtesy of David Halperin
Edith Hamilton

Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
G.W.F. Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemmingway

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Hermann Hesse

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

Barbara Ries
E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
E. J. Hobsbawm

E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
James Hogg

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
W. H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

Courtesy of the author
Samuel Johnson

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

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Alvin M. Josephy

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Decimus Junis Juvenalis

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

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Kent Wheeler Kennan

Hugh Kenner

Frank Kermode

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Paul Klee

Jerzy N. Kosinski

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

Jacques Lacan

Jules Laforgue

Portrait of Laforgue by Franz Skarbina (1885)
R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Anne Lamott

Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Conte De Lautreamont

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
C. Levi-Strauss

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)
Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Georg Lukacs

Jean-Francois Lyotard

NiccoloÌ Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
John Mandeville

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harriet Martineau

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

from Wikipedia
Charles Robert Maturin

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

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

George Du Maurier

Elliott & Fry
Henry Mayhew

wikipedia
Marshall Mcluhan

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
James A. Michener

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Alan Moorhead

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

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienThomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
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
John Henry Cardinal Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Wendy O'Flaherty

Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
John O'Hara

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

University of Texas at Austin Portrait
Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Michael Palmer

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Octavio Paz

Marisha Pessl

Jean Piaget

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Francine Prose

Marcel Proust

Pynchon Thomas

Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Jean Baptiste Racine

Wikipédia France
Raymond Radiguet

wikimedia commons - Radiguet at 17. Portrait by Picasso
John Rawls

David Ricardo

Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson

Charles Rosen

Courtesy of Indiana University
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

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)
Marquis 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)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

J. D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
Carl Sandberg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Arnold Schoenberg

Walter Scott

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

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

David Shankbone
Seneca

Richard Sennett

Photo by Lilithcat
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Philip Sidney

from Wikipedia
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Adam Smith

Tobias George Smollett

from Wikipedia
Philippe Sollers

Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Richard Steele

Gertrude Stein

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Gottfried von Strassburg

A C Swinburne

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

© Joyce Tenneson
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Henry David Thoreau

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

public domain
Jean Toomer

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

Anthony Trollope

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

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

Roberto Unger

"Randy F."
John Updike

Martha Updike
Luisa Valenzuela

Paul Valery

Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Horace Walpole

Martin Walser

Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons
H.G. Wells

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

Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
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)
Patricia J. Williams

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
William Carlos Williams

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Wolfe

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Thomas Wyatt

Sir Thomas Wyatt, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Frank Zappa

Helge Øverås, January 16th 1977
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Louis Zukofsky

Photo of Zukofsky alone, by Elsa Dorfman
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