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Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Edward Albee

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Donald Barthelme

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

John Barth

Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Jorge Luis Borges

Dale Brown

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
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)
Guy Debord

Don DeLillo

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
MARGUERITE DURAS

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Anatole France

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

James George Frazer, Sir

Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nadine Gordimer

Graham Greene

John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
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)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Eugene Ionesco

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksErica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

John Kaufeld

GAMA booth at Book Expo America 2007, photo by Lampbane
Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Georgia O'Keeffe

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
(with Photoshop corrections by Steve Hopson) - Wikipedia
Suze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Linus Pauling

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Gerhard Richter

Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer, 2005, Düsseldorf, Germany
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Miguel De Cervantes

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

Photo by Kel Munger.
Jean-Paul Sartre

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Shel Silverstein

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
By the Editors of Time-life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
John Kennedy Toole

Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
John Updike

Martha Updike
Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Andrew Weil

John R. Ziemann
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

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

jeanettewinterson.com
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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