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Edward Abbey

Peter Abelard

Ralph Abraham

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
James Agee

Robert Aitken

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

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Steve Almond

Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Sherwood Anderson

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

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Bishop of Hippo Augustine

St. Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Allan Hunt-Badiner, Editor

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Mikhail Bakhtin

Lester Bangs

Coleman Barks

Photo by Mark Barry / Flickr.
John Barth

Stephen Batchelor

Gregory. Bateson

from Wikipedia
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Ernest Becker

Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Nicolas Berdyaev

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Wendell Berry

Mark Billingham

© Charlie Hopkinson 2007
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Leonardo Boff

Credit: Hermínio Oliveira/Agência Brasil, 2003
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jorge Luis Borges

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Joe Boyd

Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Fernand Braudel

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Buddha

Buddhist Temple, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photo by McKay Savage / Flickr.
Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Jacob Burkhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ernest Callenbach

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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)
Fritjof Capra

Ernesto Cardenal

photo by Linda Lambert
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Bartolome de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
Neal Cassady

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Fidel Castro

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
John Cheever

Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Agatha Christie

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Michael Cohen

R. G. Collingwood

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Frederick Copleston

Phil Cousineau

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Robert Crais

St John of the Cross

E. E. Cummings

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

Princeton University
Ram Dass

Kathleen Murphy
Robertson Davies

Mike Davis

Richard Dawkins

Dorothy Day

John Dear

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jared Diamond

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
E. L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Marc Eliot

T.S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ludwig Feuerbach

Janet Fitch

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Eric Foner, editor

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Stephen R. Fox

Jerry Bauer
Miranda France

(AP Watt)
Dick Francis

Ann Frank

Wikipédia France
Viktor E. Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mary Cross
Holly George-Warren

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons/Cropped)
Elizabeth Gilbert

Allen Ginsburg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Anthony Grey

Anthony Grey - Founder, Tagman Press
Martha Grimes

Ursula K. Le Guin

G. I. Gurdjieff

loc.gov: Janet Flanner-Solita Solano papers.
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Woody Guthrie

World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, March 8, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-130859)
Gustavo Gutierrez

Mohan
Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dag Hammarskjöld

UN/DPI
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thich Nhat Hanh

Robert Hass

S. I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden and wife Barbara Williams (Credit: Jim Gilliam, 2004)
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Chris Hedges

Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Werner Heisenberg

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
David Helvarg

From the author
Ernest Hemingway

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

Patrick Henry (1736-1799), portrait by George Bagby Matthews, circa 1891 (Art Collection of the U.S. Senate)
Nick Herbert

Alexander Herzen

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hill

Etty Hillesum

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Eric Hobsbawm

Douglas Hofstader

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Barney Hoskyns

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Paula Huston

This photo was taken by my husband, Mike Huston.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
William James

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

John Burlinson
Robinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C.G. Jung

Franz Kafka

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
David C. Korten

Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
George Lakoff

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Felicite-Robert de. Lamennais

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

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

John Lescroart

William Mosgrove
Noah Levine

Photo by: Dave Coleman
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

MDCarchives
Bjorn Lomborg

Emil Jupin
Niccolo Machiavelli

Sri Ramana Maharshi

G. G. Welling (ca. 1940); current rights-holder is Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, 606603, Tamil Nadu, India.
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Peter Marshall

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.)
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Frank McCourt

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Marshall McLuhan, and Quentin Fiore

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Allan Megill

R. Felski
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Carolyn Merchant

University of California at Berkeley
Thomas Merton

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

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

Columbia University
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)
Rohinton Mistry

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Jacques Monod

Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Thomas More

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

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

Elena Seibert
Caroline Myss

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Prof. Alexander Nehamas. Photo by Randall Hagadorn, 1994 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Pablo Neruda

Friedrich Nietzshe, edited by Walter Kaufmann

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

John Noble

Kristin Dos Santos
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Julian of Norwich

Henri J. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Eugene O'Neill

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

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Elaine Pagels, and Karen L. King

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

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
James Patterson

Ridley Pearson

Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Bryce Pinchot (1865-1946)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-04976)
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Clive Ponting

Chaim Potok

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Eric Puchner

Photo by Saeed Mirfattah
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

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

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Kenneth Rexroth

Rainer Maria Rilke

Tom Robbins

James M. Robinson

Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Arundhati Roy

Jerry Rubin

Photo © Robert Altman 2008
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)
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

J. D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jean-Paul Sartre

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Erwin Schrodinger

E. F. Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Stephen Schwartz

Melesse from Wikimedia Commons
Rupert Sheldrake

Nevil Shute

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

German Wikimedia Commons (by user Individualist)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Gary Snyder

1990s
Sophocles

Kathryn Spink

Credit: John Coo
John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Kevin Starr

Peter N. Stearns

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

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

WIkipedia
Marie-Henri Beyle Stendahl

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
de Lisieux Therese, Saint

Statue of St. Thérèse, Holy Hill Shrine, Hubertus, Wisconsin. Photo by T. Canaan / Wikimedia Commons.
Dylan Thomas

Lewis Thomas

E. P. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Lao Tsu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Giambattista Vico

From the Wikimedia Commons
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Carrie Stevens Walter

Carrie Stevens Walter (b.1846), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Max Weber

Simone Weil

Janwillem van de wetering

Walt Whitman

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

From
Wikipedia
Photo courtesy Research Library of Electronics, MIT.
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
William Carlos Williams

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Stuart Woods

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
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.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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