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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field

Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Markham

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ivo Andric

Aristophanes

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
W.H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner

Samuel Beckett

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Betjeman

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Bowles

Marlon Brando

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

Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Martin Buber

Mikhail 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)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

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

Fritjof Capra

John Caputo

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.)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Pierre Teilhard de. Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Winston S Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Arthur C. Clarke

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

J.M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
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)
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
E.E. Cummings

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

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Don DeLillo

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Stephen Dunn

Columbia University
Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

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

T.S. Eliot

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

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

Piero Ferrucci

photo by Ilaria Cotogni
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
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Bernard L. Ross

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
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
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault


John Fowles

Viktor E. Frankl

James George Frazer

Charles Frazier

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph

Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressWilliam Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Alex Garland

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

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

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
William Golding

William Goldman

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

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet

Thom Gunn

Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney


Martin Heidegger


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.
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)
Christopher Hill

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Eric Hobsbawm

E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Photographer unknown
A.E. Housman

Herbert Huncke

Will Hutton

Stephen Inwood

Joe Inwood
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William James

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

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

Franz Kafka

Nikos Kazantzakes

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

John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac


Ken Kesey

Stephen King

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

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Jerzy Kosinski


Milan Kundera


R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983

Philip Larkin

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
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Florence Littauer

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 Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Robert Lowell

George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
David Lynch

Credit: Rita Molnár, 2001, Cannes, France
Herbert Marcuse

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
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)
John Stuart Mill

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Charles De Secondat Montesquieu, Baron De

Wikipédia France
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienHaruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Jack Nicklaus

President Bush presents PGA champion Jack Nicklaus with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Sharon Olds


Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Thomas Paine

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
M.Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Fernando Pessoa


Robert M. Pirsig

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

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)

Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman

Thomas Pynchon

Craig Raine

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons

Carl R. Rogers

Natalie Rogers
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Dorothy Rowe

Maggie Hannan
Steven Runciman


Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said

J.D. Salinger

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Martin Scorsese

Credit: David Shankbone, April 25, 2007
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Stephen Spender

Wesley Stace

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Anne Stevenson

Library of Congress
Thomas Szasz

Photograph by Jeffrey A. Schaler
Cornelius Tacitus

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Alfred Tennyson

Edward Thomas

Poems, 1917
David Thomson

Lucy Gray
J.R.R. Tolkien


Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Kurt Vonnegut

Derek Walcott

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

David Foster Wallace

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJack Williamson

John Wilmot Rochester

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Tobias Wolff

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
W.B. Yeats

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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