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Theodor W. Adorno

Tschingis Aitmatow

Andreas Zak
Naomi Alderman

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

Laura Antoniou

uncredited, per the author
Aristoteles

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

Deutsche Bundespost / Wikimedia Commons
Achim von Arnim

Painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling (1805)
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Hartmann von Aue

Portrait of Hartmann von Aue from the Codex Manesse
Augustinus

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ingeborg Bachmann

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

L Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Georg Büchner

Simone De Beauvoir

Johannes R. Becher

Sculpture by Fritz Cremer, Berlin Germany
(Credit: SpreeTom (Wikipedia user), 2006)
Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Stefan Block

Christina Pabst
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Johann Jakob Bodmer

Project Gutenberg
Richard Nelson Bolles

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Malcolm Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Bertolt Brecht

Clemens Brentano

Meyer's Encyclopedia (1906)
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Raymond Briggs

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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Günter de Bruyn

Günter de Bruyn (right) with Christa Wolf. Photo by Gabriele Senft. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z1229-317)
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

MDCarchives

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Caius Julius Caesar

public domain
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Albert Camus

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

Ernesto Cardenal

photo by Linda Lambert
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Gianni Celati

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Adelbert von Chamisso

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany
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)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Susanna Clarke

Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Amanda Cross

John Burlinson
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
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)
Felix Dahn

Andrea DeCarlo

www.andreadecarlo.com
Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Joanne Dobson

Fjodor M. Dostojewskij

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Sarah Dunant

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Gerald Durrell

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

Joseph von Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
George Eliot

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

Hans M. Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

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
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Katherine V. Forrest

from author's home page -- no credit listed
Patricia Foster

Courtesy of Indiana University
Michel Foucault

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

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

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Ferdinand Freiligrath

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

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Max Frisch

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

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Neil Gaiman

Jane Gardam

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
John Gay

Clifford Geertz

Mary Cross
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Golding

William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Christian D Grabbe

Drawing by Theodor Hildebrandt (1832)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Günter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Ursula K. Le Guin

Olaf Gulbransson

Batya Gur

Photo by user Casaresricardo / Wikimedia Commons
Jürgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
Albrecht von Haller

Laurell K. Hamilton

Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Friedrich Hebbel

DDR-Stamp
Martin Heidegger

Christoph Hein

Photo by Hubert Link. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1104-051)
Heinrich Heine

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

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Johann Gottfried Herder

Judith Hermann

Credit: Ordu Oğuz, 2007, Berlin, Germany
Herodot

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)
Tony Hillerman

James Hillman

James Hillman 1989
Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Ödön von Horvath

Ricarda Huch

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eva Ibbotson

Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguru

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Panait Istrati

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksKarl Jaspers

Elfriede Jelinek

Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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

Immanuel Kant

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Jack Kerouac

Sören Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Sarah. Kirsch

(Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0531-0325)
Egon (Hg.) Kisch


Heinrich von Kleist

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

Portrait by Jens Juel. Photo by user Saddhiyama / Wikimedia Commons.
Karl Kraus

Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
David H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Jakob M. R. Lenz

Siegfried Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Carlo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Klaus Mann

Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Alessandro Manzoni

wikimedia commons - (Francesco Hayez, 1841, Brera Art Gallery).
Dacia Maraini

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2246514705/in/set-72157603706880065/
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne Du Maurier

Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Carson McCullers

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
A.A. Milne

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Tirso de Molina

Monument to Tirso de Molina, Madrid, Spain. Photo by Luis García / Flickr.
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAlberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Irmtraud Morgner

Irmtraud Morgner (right). Photo by Katscherowski. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1116-0010)
Karl Philipp Moritz

Portrait by Friedrich Rehberg (1758-1835)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Justus Möser

Harry Mulisch

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
Fridtjof Nansen

From "Farthest North" by Nansen
Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Charles Nodier

Novalis

Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJoyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Ondaatje Michael

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Leonie Ossowski

Photo by Sylwia Szulc / Wikimedia Commons
Ovid

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Sara Paretsky

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Jean Paul

Portrait by Heinrich Pfenniger
Hermann von Pückler-Muskau


Iain Pears

M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Marisha Pessl

D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Platon

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Lorenzo da Ponte

18th century portrait of Lorenzo da Ponte
Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Antoine Francois Prévost

Wikipédia France
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas de Quincey

Wilhelm Raabe

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Christoph Ransmayr

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rainer Maria Rilke

Marilynne Robinson

Joseph Roth

J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy


Matt Ruff

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Ferdinand von Saar

Wikimedia Commons
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Friedrich von Schiller

Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Friedrich Schlegel

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Roger Lebacq
Robert Schneider

Photo by Sven Teschke
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart

Walter Scott

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

From Wikipedia. Taken by Sammis (studio) in 1864.

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
Anna Seghers

Photo by Joachim Spremberg. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F0114-0204-004)
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
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)
Paullina Simons

Mel Cain
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Zadie Smith

Susan Sontag

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Hilde Spiel

Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Frank Tallis

Nicola Fox
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

Ludwig Tieck

Uwe Timm

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.
John Ronald R. Tolkien

Ernst Toller

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-37042
Leo N. Tolstoi

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Friedrich Torberg

Michel Tournier

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Kurt Tucholsky

Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Rahel Varnhagen

Giovanni Verga

Anonymous photographer
Berthold Viertel

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Günter Wallraff

Photo by Kurt Janssen, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Martin Walser

Photo by user S1 / Wikimedia Commons
Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jakob Wassermann

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Evelyn Waugh

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

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Orson Welles

Description: Orson Welles, March 1, 1937
Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-119765
Franz Werfel

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction NumberLC-USZ62-42512 DLC
Johann Karl Wezel

Christoph Martin Wieland

Portrait by Ferdinand Carl Christian Jagemann (1805)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Connie Willis

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

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Naomi Wolf

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.
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Carl Zuckmayer

Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
ÖNB/Wien (Pf 4066 : C 1)
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