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Theodore Kaczynski

Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Theodor W. Adorno

Aeschylus

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Anonymous

Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

St. Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Michael Azerrad

Joe Mabel

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Antony Beevor

Andrey Biely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Walter Benjamin

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Simón Bolívar

Saint Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz

from the book: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints
Jorge Luis Borges

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Fernand Braudel

André Breton

Stephen Breyer

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portrait)
Dee Alexander Brown

Thomas Bullfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
James MacGregor Burns

Courtesy of the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

Jesse L. Byock

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

circa 1932 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-38302)
Lewis Carroll

Fidel Castro

Willa Cather

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

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
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)
Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Richard Danzig

U.S. Navy
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Darwin

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

Guy Debord

Department of the Army

defenselink.mil
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

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

J.M. Dilliard


Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Dave Dravecky

Paul Dukes

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Ronald Dworkin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Sylvia A. Earle

Coastal America / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Shirin Ebadi

Linda Holdeman Edwards

Mercer University School of Law
George Eliot

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

Ralph Ellison

Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Desiderius Erasmus

M. C Escher

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)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Shelby Foote


Michel Foucault

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Charles Fried

Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Dept. of Justice Photo)
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Jean Genet

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
W. S. Gilbert

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Al Gore

Wikipedia
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Ben Greenman

David Shankbone, September 2007
Alexander Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Konrad Heiden

(stuff in German that I can't understand--if you read German, can you leave me a comment with a translation of the Wikimedia page in the copyright section? thanks!)
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.
Herodotus

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
E. J. Hobsbawm

Ho Chi Minh

wikipedia
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1902 (Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-58677)

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Alistair Horne

Jerry Bauer
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

U.S. Dept of State
Eugene Ionesco

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Brian Jacques

William James

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

Jean de Joinville

Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale., Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna. From
Wikipedia
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Thomas à Kempis

Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Joseph Kerman

Jack Kerouac

Ian Kershaw

Ken Kesey

John Maynard Keynes

Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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

Jacques Lacan

Lewis H. Lapham

Comte de Lautréamont

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldor Laxness

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Aldo Leopold

Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Claude Lévi-Strauss

C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Toussaint L'Ouverture

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Jean François Lyotard

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.)
Niccolò Machiavelli

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Frederic William Maitland

Thomas Mann

Mao Zedong

from Wikipedia

Gabriel García Márquez


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]
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Rigoberta Menchú

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Stuart Mill

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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Thurston Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

President George W. Bush addresses the United Nations General Assembly Nov. 10, 2001. White House photo by Paul Morse.
(whitehouse.gov)
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
John Noble

Kristin Dos Santos
Robert Nozick

Barack Obama

Marc Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueMichael Okuda

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Ovid

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
St. Paul of Tarsus

Image from Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 876 (AA size))
Fernando Pessoa

Petronius

Nathaniel Philbrick

Robert Pirsig

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

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


Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
John Polkinghorne

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Polybius

Richard A. Posner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
John Rawls

Tom Regan

Photo by Rainer Ebert / Flickr
Paul Reubens

Photo by Alan Light, Academy Awards 1988 (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Hans Richter

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Library (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jonathan Riley-Smith

Tom Robbins

Maximilien Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaJames M. Robinson

Romain Rolland

Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
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)

Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Antonin Scalia

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portait)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.

From Wikipedia.com
Roger Scruton

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Victor Serge

From Wikimedia Commons
Madame de Sévigné

wikipedia
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
William Shatner

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Bapsi Sidhwa

John Burlinson
Shel Silverstein

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Adam Smith

Joseph Smith

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown

Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Baruch Spinoza

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Robert Scoble
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Ronald Grigor Suny

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Ronald Syme

wikipedia
Cornelius Tacitus

Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Hunter S. Thompson


Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Jeffrey Toobin

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Kennedy Toole

David Toop

Unknown
Russell E. Train

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Official Photo
Leon Trotsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35130
Dalton Trumbo

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sunzi

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

"Randy F."
United States Congress

House of Representatives and Central Dome, U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C. Photo by Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons.
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

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


Kurt Vonnegut

Richard Wagner

from Wikipedia

David Foster Wallace

Evelyn Waugh

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

(c) Alison Weir
Alan Weisman

H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienElie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
William J. Wilson

© Martha Stewart
Harvard University.
P.G. Wodehouse

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Lawrence Wright

Kenny Braun
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Slavoj Žižek

Photo by Andy Miah
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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