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Theodor W. Adorno

Aeschylus

C Aira

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Louisa M. Alcott

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

Sherwood Anderson

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

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
M.M. Bakhtin

J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
David B.

Photo taken by Marcela Ewert

Samuel Beckett


Saul Bellow

Walter Benjamin

Thomas Bernhard

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Andrei Bitov

Dmitry Rozhkov
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Александр Александрович Блок

Jorge Luis Borges

Jane Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951

Paul Bowles

Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

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)
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
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Michel Butor

Lord George Gordon Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Willa Cather

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

ÁWá
Anton Chekhov

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

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
J.M. Coetzee

William Congreve

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper

Robert Coover

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
DON DELILLO

Jacques Derrida

Charles Dickens

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Umberto Eco

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

Stanley Elkin

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Steve Erickson

Euripedes

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
William Faulkner

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

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Ford Madox Ford

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

Photo © Robert Yager
Michel Foucault

Jonathan Franzen

J.G. Frazer

Max Frisch

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon

William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
WILLIAM GIBSON

André Gide

1893
Johann Wolfgang von 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)
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Goncharov

Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Henry Green


Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
M Heidegger

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Johan Huizinga

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

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

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

Wikipedia
Fredric Jameson

From Wikimedia Commons
Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (center). (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P057015)
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)
Franz Kafka

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Claire Keegan

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Paul M. Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Hugh Kenner

Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Julia Kristeva

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Milan Kundera

Jacques Lacan

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Mikhail 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
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)
Jonathan Littell

David Monniaux
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Titus Lucretius Carus

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Niccolo Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bobbie Ann Mason

Charles Robert Maturin

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

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

Derek Shapton
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
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
W.S. Merwin (translator)

(c) Matthew Schwart
Henry Miller

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

John Milton

Moliere

Wikipédia France
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)
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze

Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Juan Carlos Onetti

Michel Onfray

George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

Jean Potocki

wikipedia
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Marcel Proust


Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Samuel Richardson

Paul Ricoeur

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Juan Rulfo

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

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

© 2004 Lana Rys
Jean-Paul Sartre

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

from Wikipedia
Claude Simon

Zadie Smith

Sophocles

Vladimir Sorokin

Elke Wetzig, 2006-03-13
Edmund Spenser

Benedictus de Spinoza

Dana Spiotta

Christina Stead

Gertrude Stein

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
August Strindberg

From Wikimedia Commons
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
E.P. Thompson

Thoreau Henry David

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Tatyana Tolstaya

Yaffa Grinblatt / Whistling in the Dark
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Robert Tombs

Jerry Bauer
Michel Tournier

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Paul Valéry

Paul Verhaeghen

Li-Hua Lan
Enrique Vila-Matas

Mathieu Bourgois
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia

Edmund White

John Williams

William Carlos Williams

Edmund Wilson

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

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
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