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Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Theodor W. Adorno

Aeschylus,

Louisa M. Alcott

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

Szymon Sokół
Dante Alighieri,

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Peter Altenberg

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Tryggve Andersen

Henrik Lund (1879–1935)
Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Aristoteles,

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Isaac. Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W H Auden

helgen Aurelius Augustinus

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Isaac Babel

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

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
M.M. Bakhtin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Donald Barthelme

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

John Barth

Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Georg Büchner

Peter S Beagle

Wikipedia
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Joseph Bédier

www.academie-francaise.fr
Saul Bellow

Andrej Belyj

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Gregory Benford

Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Thomas Berger

Thomas Bernhard

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jens Bjørneboe

Maurice Blanchot

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Tadeusz Borowski

James Boswell

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Edgar Bowers

Kay Boyle

Ray Bradbury

Bertolt Brecht

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Wikimedia Commons
Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Anne Bronte

Charlotte Brontë

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
Dee Brown

JOHN BRUNNER

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Michail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

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

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Karel Čapek

john le carre

Lewis Carroll

Mircea Cărtărescu

Photo by Cosmin Bumbuţ, www.bumbutz.com
Willa Cather

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

Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

A.P. Chekhov

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G. K. Chesterton

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

Elze Hamilton
Lars Saabye Christensen

Source: Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers' website
E.M. Cioran

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Paul Claudel

Wikipédia France
Jean Cocteau

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robert Coover

Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Frederick Copleston

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Hart Crane

Benedetto Croce

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
David Crystal

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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

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

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Jacques Derrida

Rene 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 Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

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

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Thomas M Disch

Ariel Hameon
John Donne

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

F.M. Dostoevskij

"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)
ALEXANDER DUMAS

Elaine Dundy

Edward Plunkett Dunsany, Baron

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Will Durant

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Jean Echenoz

Umberto Eco

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

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

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Erasmus Roterodamus,

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Fielding Henry

wikipedia
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Kjartan Fløgstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 5, 2007
Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
C.S. Forester

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

Max Frisch

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
CARLOS FUENTES

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John J. Fux

From Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Jean Genet

René Girard

Vicq
George Gissing

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
N.V. Gogol'

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

Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan A Gontsjarov

Maxim Gorki

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

Peter Groth
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Alasdair Gray

Graham Greene

Henry Green

David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Ursula K. Le Guin

Lars Gustafsson

Suz
Jacques Hadamard

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Edith Hamilton

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo by Paweł Cieśla, Wikipedia user: Staszek_Szybki_Jest
Herodotus

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

Hermann Hesse

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

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Geoffrey Hill

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Ludvig Holberg

wikimedia commons
Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) (artist unknown)
John Hollander

Homeros

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Michel Houellebecq

A. E. Housman

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
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)
Eugène Ionesco

Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
William James

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

Axel Jensen

© 2002 Robert E. Haraldsen
Jerome K. Jerome

Georg Johannesen

Gisle Hannemyr (2005)
Samuel Johnson

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

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Hugh Kenner

Frank Kermode

Daniil Charms

Alexander L[ange] Kielland

Søren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Aleksis Kivi

wikimedia commons - Earliest known image of Aleksis Kivi. Drawn in 1873 almost certainly by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905).
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Donald E. Knuth

David Monniaux
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Dezsö Kosztolányi

Bust of Dezso Kosztolanyi. Photo by user Mathae / Wikimedia Commons.
Karl Kraus

Milan Kundera

Pär Lagerkvist

Charles, Lamb

wikipedia
Philip Larkin

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldór Kiljan Laxness,

Harper Lee

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Siegfried Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
N.S. Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

Claude Levi-strauss

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)
David Lindsay

Yutang Lin

Library of Congress
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Ivar Lo-Johansson

Ivar Lo-Johansson (right) with Harry Martinson
Photo: Gunnar Lundh (1940)
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Titus Lucretius Carus

Arnost Lustig

Photo by user che / Czech Wikipedia.
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Diarmaid MacCulloch

Kaihsu Tai
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ken MacLeod

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Gabriel García Márquez

George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Harry Matthews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Charles 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]
Guy de Maupassant

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Tom Mccarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Patrick Mcgrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Maureen F. McHugh

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H.L. Mencken

George Meredith

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

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
China Mieville

Arthur Miller

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

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Steven Millhauser

John Stuart Mill

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

MDCarchives
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Molière,

Wikipédia France
Tirso de Molina

Monument to Tirso de Molina, Madrid, Spain. Photo by Luis García / Flickr.
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
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)
Ward Moore

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

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas More

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

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Harry Mulisch

Herta Müller

Multatuli

Eduard Douwes Dekker, aka Mutatuli
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Robert Musil

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Soseki Natsume

Pablo Neruda

Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Harold Nicolson

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

Gustav Schultze
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Sigbjørn Obstfelder

wikimedia commons
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburō Ōe

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/
Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Arto Paasilinna

Matti Järvinen
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Samuel Pepys

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

by Baxter Knowlton
Bernardo Soares

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Platon,

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

©The Random House Group
Plautus

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Karl R. Popper

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Annie Proulx

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

Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

Lisa Randall

Photograph by leslieimage.com who took it at TED 2006
Ayn Rand

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

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
John Rawls

Robert Reed

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Samuel Richardson

Klaus Rifbjerg

Rainer Maria Rilke

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienKim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson

François de La Rochefoucauld

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

Courtesy of Indiana University
Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Joseph Roth

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Bertrand Russell

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

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Elena Seibert
J. D. Salinger

José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Arno Schmidt

Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Hjalmar Söderberg

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bob Shaw

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention), Brighton, England, 1979. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Wikipedia Image
Dan Simmons

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

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

Amalie Skram

Josef Škvorecký

public domain
Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
David Solway

Gunnar Sønsteby

Photo: Arnephoto
Sophocles

Theodore C. Sorensen

Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Counsel to the President. Photograph by Abbie Rowe, National Park Service, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Benedictus de Spinoza

Olaf Stapledon

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

JOHN STEINBECK

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George.R. Stewart

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

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Igor Stravinsky

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-32392
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Charles Stross

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
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
Sveton

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Dylan Thomas

Thompson

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
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
Jr. Tiptree, James

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Colm Toibin

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
J.R.R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoj

public domain
Tomas Tranströmer

Andrei Romanenko
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenjev

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

from Wikipedia
Dubravka Ugresic

Wikimedia Commons
Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Paul Valéry

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. van Vogt

John Burlinson
VARIOUS

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Lope de Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
Paul Verhaeghen

Li-Hua Lan
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
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Vernor Vinge

By
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Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
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Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
François Marie Arouet de Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Jacobus de Voragine

Detail from "Crucifixion" by Ottaviano Nelli, Chapel of the Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy. Photo by Georges Jansoone / Wikimedia Commons
David Foster Wallace

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Evelyn Waugh

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

Photograph by Dietbert Keßler (1982)
Eudora Welty

Franz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Henrik Wergeland

Carl Peter Lehmann (1842)
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Gilbert White

Wikipedia
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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(cropped)
John Williams

Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Tennessee Williams

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Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Edmund Wilson

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Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Abraham B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Howard Zinn

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

Photo by Andy Miah
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
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