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Edward Abbey

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Henry Adams

Federal Aviation Administration

faa.gov
Aeschylus

James Agee

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Sherwood Anderson

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

Anonymous

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
W.H. Auden

Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Boethius

Robert Bolt

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

Ray Bradbury

Andre Breton

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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Anthony Burgess

Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron

Ernest Callenbach

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)
Thomas Carlyle

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

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

Bennett Alfred Cerf

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

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
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)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Patricia Curd

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Will Durant

Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Charles W. ed. Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
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
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
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
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

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
R. F. Foster

Michel Foucault

James George Frazer

Brian Friel

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

Photo copyrighted 1903
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-104657)
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Holly George-Warren

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons/Cropped)
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

William Goldman

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
A. C. Grayling

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
R. S. Gwynn

Don Usner
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
James Harris

James Harris. Frontispiece from Philological inquiries, in three parts (1781)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
N. Katherine Hayles

Dave Pape
Seamus Heaney

William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

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

O'Henry

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
James Hogg

Anthony Holden

Homer

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

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. E. Housman

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
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)
Samuel Johnson

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

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

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Hugh Kenner

Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Jack Kerouac

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Heinrich von Kleist

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Philip Larkin

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Emmanuel Levinas

Bracha L. Ettinger
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Primo Levi

Daniel J. Levitin

C. S. Lewis

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)
Sinclair Lewis

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

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
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.)
Robert MacNeil

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Christopher Marlowe

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

Martin E. Marty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Frank McCourt

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

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

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

James Newman

Mari Adkins, June 26, 2006
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Flannery O'Connor

Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
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/
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Wing Pinero

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas De Quincey

Raja Rao

Diane Ravitch

© 2003 Lisa Wolfe
Paul Ricoeur

Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
J.K. Rowling

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
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)
Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

Ferdinand la Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling

Walter Scott

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

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

from Wikipedia
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe; Introduction Raymond Weaver; Illustrator Mig Covarrubias

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

Andrew Tanenbaum

Credit: GerardM (Wikipedia user), 2006
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
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)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
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-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
Max Weber

H. G. Wells

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

Rebecca West

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

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Laura Ingalls Wilder/Helen Sewell

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Tennessee Williams

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

J.D. Sloan
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
William Butler Yeats

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