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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Henry Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Theodor W. Adorno

Aeschylus

Chingiz Aitmatov

Andreas Zak
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Louis Althusser

Henri Frédéric Amiel

From
Wikipedia
Portrait of Amiel by Joseph Hornung, 1852.
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
A. R. Ammons

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

wikipedia
Matthew Arnold

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

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Miguel Angel Asturias

Farid al-Din Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

St Augustine

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)
Babur

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.
Mikhail Bakhtin

J G Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Heinrich Barth

John Barth

Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Saul Bellow

Andrei Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Walter Benjamin

Gottfried Benn

Gottfried Benn c. 1951, by Tobias Falberg. From
Wikipedia.
Jeremy Bentham

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Thomas Bernhard

John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Andrei Bitov

Dmitry Rozhkov
Susan Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
R. P Blackmur

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

Ernst Bloch

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady
Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Robert Bresson

The Film Reference Library Toronto
Andre Breton

Hermann Broch

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
Christine Brooke-Rose

Carcanet Press
Sir Thomas Browne

Robert Browning

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Giordano Bruno

Jean de La Bruyère

Wikiépdia France
Christine Buci-Glucksmann

portrait by Joseph Nechvatal
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

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

Michel Butor

George Gordon Byron, Lord

Julius Caesar

public domain
John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
James M. Cain

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

Ernest Callenbach

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

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

Karel Capek

Thomas Carlyle

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

John Burlinson
Jacques Casanova De Seingalt

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
C. P. Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Stanley Cavell

Paul Celan

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
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)
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Patricia Smith Churchland

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
E.M. Cioran

John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Edward Clarendon, Earl of

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

Jonathan Coe

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)
R.G. Collingwood

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Prof. Michael Cook (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Robert Coover

Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Hart Crane

Edward Estlin Cummings

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

Euclides da Cunha (1866—1909)
Caricature by Raul Pederneiras, 1903
(Wikipedia)
Antoni R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
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
Guy Debord

Regis Debray

Régis Debray in 1970
Samuel R Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

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

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

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
John Donne

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

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
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)
John Dryden

Alexandre Dumas

Duns Scotus John

unknown
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Emile Durkheim

Johann Peter Eckermann

Johann Joseph Schmeller (1825)
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
Sergei M. Eisenstein

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
Ralph Ellison

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Sextus Empiricus

William Empson

John Burlinson
Frederick Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Desiderius Erasmus

Steve Erickson

Frantz Fanon

William Faulkner

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

J. G. Fichte

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

John Fletcher

Theordor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

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

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Charles Fourier

from History of the World, H. F. Helmholt (ed.) (1901)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Jonathan Franzen

Sir James George Frazer

Gottlieb Frege

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
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)
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Benito Perez Galdos

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Jean Genet

Henry George

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-37132
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
George Gissing

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Luis De Gongora y Argote

Painting by Velazquez
William Godwin

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

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Baltasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Graham Greene

Johann Jacob Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius - Portrait by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631. From
WikipediaBarbara Guest

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

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
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)
Heraclitus

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
George Herbert

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Herodotus

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

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

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hill

Geoffrey Hill

Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E.J. Hobsbawm

E.T.A. Hoffmann

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

Friedrich Holderlin

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

Homer

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

Photographer unknown
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Michel Houellebecq

Henry Howard Surrey

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

wikimedia commons
Guillermo Cabrena Infante

Jalal al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
William James

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

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Douglas William Jerrold

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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)
Ernst Junger

Justinian

Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale., Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna. From
WikipediaFranz Kafka

Ken Kalfus

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Thomas Kempis

Hugh Kenner

Gilles Kepel

PHOTO: AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY/HOPI-MEDIA//GEORGES SCHNEIDER -
© by HOPI-MEDIA Medienservice GmbH. A-1030 Wien
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

John Maynard Keynes

Omar Khayyam

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

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Melanie Klein

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Von Kleist

Karl Korsch

Karl Kraus

Saul A. Kripke

Prof. Saul A. Kripke. Photo credit: Robert P. Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Milan Kundera

Jacques Lacan

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Image by David Barison/Daniel Ross 2004 from the film The Ister (Wikipedia)
Madame de La Fayette

Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)
Philip Larkin

Lautreamont

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Freiherr von

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
V.I. Lenin

Giacomo Leopardi

Retouched by Italian Wikipedia user
Twice25Mikhail Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Nikolai Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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)
Wyndham Lewis

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
Livy

from Wikipedia
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Christopher Logue

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Federico Garcia Lorca

Guillaume de Lorris

Robert Lowell

Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Titus Lucretius Carus

Gyorgy Lukacs

Martin Luther

Rosa Luxemberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Jean-Francois Lyotard

Niccolo Machiavelli

John Pentland Mahaffy

wikimedia commons
Nicolas Malebranche

wikimedia commons
Stéphane Mallarmé

Wikipédia France
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Osip Mandelstam

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Mao Tse-Tung

from Wikipedia
Herbert Marcuse

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
W.Somerset Maugham

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

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
George Herbert Mead

Alexius Meinong

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Jules Michelet

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

Ludwig Von Mises

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Jacques Monod

Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
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)
Thomas More

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

From Wikipedia
Paul Muldoon

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
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
Thomas Nashe

Antonio Negri

Pablo Neruda

Gerard de Nerval

Nicholas Cusanus

Detail from the grave of Nicholas Cardinal of Cusa, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Photo by Werner B. Sendker / Wikimedia Commons.
Lorine Niedecker

Photo by Gail Roub
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Novalis

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Yury Olesha

From Wikipedia
Charles Olson

Portrait of Charles Olson, by Elsa Dorfman
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ovid

Mungo Park

Parmenides

From Wikipedia
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Octavio Paz

Charles S. Peirce

Fernando Pessoa

Petronius Arbiter

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert B. Pippin

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Luigi Pirandello

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

©The Random House Group
Plautus

Plotinus

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Hilary Putnam

Photo released by Hilary Putnam, as copyright holder. See
WikipediaThomas Pynchon

Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas

Painting, copy of a lost work by Velazquez
Thomas De Quincey

W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Craig Raine

Jacques Ranciere

Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
John Rawls

David Ricardo

Samuel Richardson

Paul Ricoeur

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Peter Riley

Peter Riley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienKeith Roberts

paloma.cl
Maximilien Robespierre

Anonymous Portrait of Maximilien Robespierre c. 1793. From
WikipediaKim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Juan Rulfo

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)
Gilbert Ryle

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
F.W.J. Schelling

Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schlegel

Arnold Schoenberg

Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Ingo Schulze

Credit: Caren Müller, 2004, Berlin, Germany
Sir Walter Scott

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

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George 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)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/129/sarnov.htm
Georg Simmel

Claude Simon

John Skelton

Adam Smith

Zadie Smith

Sophocles

Georges Sorel

Edmund Spenser

Benedictus de Spinoza

Olaf Stapledon

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Gottfried von Strassburg

P.F. Strawson

August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Hans-Jurgen Syberberg

Image by David Barison/Daniel Ross 2004, from the film The Ister (Wikipedia)
John M. Synge

From Wikipedia
Tacitus

Torquato Tasso

wikimedia commons
Terence

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Theophrastus

From Wikipedia
E.P. Thompson

James Thomson

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Gregory of Tours

Statue of Gregory of Tours, Cour Napoléon, the Louvre. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Twain Mark

from Wikipedia
Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Paul Valéry

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