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Karen Abbott

Photo by Gilbert King
Peter Abelard

James Agee

Conrad Aiken

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

Richard Aldington

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
William Allen

William Allen (1532-1594) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWoody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Jay Allison

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Anonymous

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

St. Augustine

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Letitia Baldridge

White House photo by Robert Knudsen (cropped by uploader): John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Dave Barry

Richard Bausch

©Mathieu Bourgois
Simone De Beauvoir

Ernest Becker

Joseph Bedier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Thomas Phillips
Jr. Blount, Roy

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
David Bodanis

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Arna editor Bontemps

Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, Aug. 15, 1939 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-6356)
Ray Bradbury

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Geraldine Brooks

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)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Bunyan

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Kathryn Stripling Byer

Corinna Lynette Byer
Robert Byrne

George Gordon Byron

James Cameron

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
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)
Phillip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Thomas Cathcart

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Bruce Catton

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Sarvodaya.org
Champ Clark

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-27529)
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Patricia Cornwell

Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Frank Crane

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
stephen crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Chris Crowe

Brigham Young University
e.e. cummings

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

Joshua Sherurcij
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Michael D'Antonio

Photograph by B.D. Colen / ADIOL
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Clarence Day

John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
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 Diamond

James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
John Donne

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

John Burlinson
Frederick Douglass

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

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Mark Dunn

Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Ralph Ellison

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Peter Falk

Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Cropped/Flickr)
James Farmer

World Telegram & Sun photo by Walter Albertin, 1963 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119481)
Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Robert William Fogel

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Malcolm Forbes

photo by Alan Light
William R. Forstchen

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Foxe

Line engraving first published in the 1641 edition of Actes and Monmuents (Foxe's Book of Martyrs). By George Glover (fl. 1625-1650)
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Viktor E. Frankl

Charles Frazier

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressErnest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Brendan Gill

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Harry. [True Crime]. Golden

Tom Walters,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Ruth Gordon

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Graham Greene

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Steven Hahn

Columbia University
David Halberstam

Dean Hamer

Source: website of the National Institutes of Health, where he is current Chief of the Section on Gene Structure and Regulation, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
E. D. Hirsch Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Christopher Hitchens

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
David Hurwitz

David Hurwitz, author of Wasting the Dawn, buried in his personal book collection.
Aldous HUXLEY

Wikipédia France
Molly Ivins

Shirley Jackson

A. J. Jacobs

William James

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

Richard Wyatt
Robert Jensen

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
John Keats

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Aaron Lansky

Michael Largo

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stephen Leacock

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

Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

C.S. Lewis

Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Robert McCrum

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Margaret Mead

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

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
John Milton

Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Kate Moses

Claire Lewis
Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Kathleen Norris

Novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(cropped)
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Jack Olsen

www.jackolsen.com
Stewart O'Nan

Suze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Charles Osgood

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Dorothy Parker

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

Credit: copyright by Curtiss, 1905
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-38001)
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Editor Jaroslav Pelikan

Marisha Pessl

Nathaniel Philbrick

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Sylvia Plath

Gary M. Pomerantz

Samantha Power

Sister Helen Prejean

Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
James Whitcomb Riley

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

Theodore Roethke

Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Lillian B. Rubin

Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Antoine De Saint Exupery

J. D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

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

Photographed by Bela Borsodi
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Walter Scott, Sir

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Brooke Shields

Wikimedia Commons. Photography by CW02 Ed Bailey, 1 January 1991.
Mordecai Siegal

Photograph by Shel Secunda
Neil Simon

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1966 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121470)
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Stephen Singular

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Dennis Smith

R. T. Smith

"Flying Tiger" pilot R. T. Smith, U.S. Air Force
(Wikimedia Commons)
John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

James L. Swanson

Library of Congress
Daniel Tammet

Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen, 2009
Henry David Thoreau

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

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Calvin Trillin

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Thomas Tryon

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

from Wikipedia
Louis Untermeyer

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

Virgil

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

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Jim Wallis

Andrew Ward

Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Frank Warren

Eye on Books
Joseph Wechsberg

www.keithsarver.com
Translator William Whiston

Walt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
David Wilkerson

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.)
John Williams

Juan Williams

Marianne Williamson

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tennessee Williams

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

Tom Ordelman, 1984
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
William Butler Yeats

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

Majonaise
Andrew Young

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Philip Zimbardo

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
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