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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Roger Macbride Allen

U.S. Department of State
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

Aristotle

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

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

A.J. Ayer

Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Melissa Bank

Roland Barthes

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
Stephen Batchelor

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Charles Baxter

William Bayer

Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Joseph Bedier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Saul Bellow

Gregory Benford

George Berkeley

Claude Bernard

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
David Bodanis

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Edward Debono

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Borges

Max Born

Public Domain
Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ray Bradbury

Fernand Braudel

Susie Bright

David Brin

By R. Feist
Damien Broderick

Barbara Lamar
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
James Brown

James Brown (Singer) ~ Photo by Flickr User David Washington, DC
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
G. Buddha

Buddhist Temple, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photo by McKay Savage / Flickr.
Algis Budrys

Shunn
James Burke

Lord George Gordon Byron

William H. Calvin

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Orson Scott Card

Rudolf (1891-1970) Carnap

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jay Caselberg

Bruce Catton

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Anton Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Tom Clancy

Eric Clapton

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Carl von Clausewitz

Paulo Coelho

Joanna Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Wikipedia Commons.
Frederick Copleston

Patricia Cornwell

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
St. John of the Cross

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

E. E. Cummings

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

Catriona Sparks
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Peter David

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Nelson DeMille

Deng Xiaoping

Credit: White House staff photographers, 1979
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
David Deutsch

Jared Diamond

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Phillip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
William C. Dietz

John Donne

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

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

Sarah Dunant

Durant

Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Gerald M. Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
T. Harv Eker

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
T. S. Eliot

Harlan Ellison

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

Southworth & Hawes
John Emsley

Photo by John Holman
Maurits Cornelis Escher

W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Joshua Ferris

David Ferry

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Allan Folsom

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

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

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Richard Buckminster Fuller

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Howard Gardner

Photo © Esther Dyson
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann with Maria Eitel (Credit: Pierre Omidyar, Flickr)
Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
J. Richard Gott

Prof. J. Richard Gott (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Gray

Brian Greene

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
W. E. B. Griffin

Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
Ursula K. Le Guin

Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net
James L. Halperin

ha.com
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Thich Nhat Hanh

Hart B. H. Liddell

carl.army.mil
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Robert Hass

Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

E.M. Anzelmo
Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Nick Herbert

Herman Hesse

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

Edward Hirsch

Ron Hirschi

Courtesy of Ron Hirschi
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Holderlin

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Sidney Hook

John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
M.D. Karen Horney

1938 photograph (Wikipedia Commons)
L Ron Hubbard

Arianna Huffington

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Wikipedia
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)
Karl Jaspers

Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Michio Kaku

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Dean Koontz

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Gary Krist

Photo by Bob Krist
Nicholas D. Kristof

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
George Lakoff

Tenzin Gyatso

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

Ellen J. Langer

Robert Scoble
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Julia Leigh

Noah Sheldon
Stephen Leigh

William Wesen
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Janna Levin

jannalevin.com
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Bjorn Lomborg

Emil Jupin
Noah Lukeman

George MacDonald

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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Leonard Maltin

David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Thomas Mann

Mao Zedong

from Wikipedia
Phillip M. Margolin

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Sujata Massey

Jim Burger
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy De Maupassant

Daphne du Maurier

CORMAC MCCARTHY

Derek Shapton
J. D. McClatchy

Frank McCourt

Matthew McKay

New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
Sean Mcmullen

James M. Mcpherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) World-Telegram photo by Edward Lynch (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-120226)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
J. Hillis Miller

Zenohockey
John Stuart Mill

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Jim Morrison

Ian Burt
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
IRIS MURDOCH

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Robert Scoble
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Mark A. Noll

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.)
Kenzaburo Oe

George Orwell

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

David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Michael Palmer

Sara Paretsky

James Patterson

Richard North Patterson

Ridley Pearson

F. David Peat

fdavidpeat.com
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Elliot Perlman

Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Clifford Pickover

Richard Dickison
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
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
Michael Polanyi

KARL R POPPER

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Associated Press

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Willard Van Orman Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Ayn Rand

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

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Mike Resnick

Jean-Francois Revel

Jean Francois Revel polaroid portriat 1999 taken by Elsa Dorfman
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Tom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Pat Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Laurie E. Rozakis, Ph.D.

Stephan G. Kravitz
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bertrand Russel

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

Elena Seibert
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

John Sandford

Jean -Paul Sartre

Jeffrey Satinover

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.)
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Anne Wilson Schaef

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stanley Schmidt

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.
Vincent Scully

Vincent Scully. White House photo by Susan Sterner.
John Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
William Shatner

Rupert Sheldrake

Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Paul Sloane

Adam Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles

Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
S. M. Stirling

John Straley

Photo by Will Swagel
Peter Straub

Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Amber Tamblyn

Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Dylan Thomas

Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
A. W. Tozer

Photo courtesy of Lowell Tozer
Scott Turow

Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sun-tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
A.E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Vergil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Walter Wangerin

James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Peter Watson

Photo/copyright: Sue Adler
David Weber

Max Weber

Eudora Welty

Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

Mr. Whiting, at age 80, with a copy of his first novel.
[supplied by user iamiam (publisher)]
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Benjamin Lee Whorf

Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Xueqin Cao

Photo by user Yongxinge / Wikimedia Commons
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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