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Edward Abbey

Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress

Henry Adams

Jane Addams


Theodor Adorno

Aeschylus

James Agee


Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Kingsley Amis

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

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

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

Anonymous

Donald Antrim

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Machado De Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A.J. Ayer

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.
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

Roland Barthes

John Barth

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Paul Beatty

www.dentontaylor.com
Brooklyn Lit Festival 2008
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

Bede

Brendan Behan

Edward Bellamy

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

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Henri Bergson

Alexander Berkman

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00769)
Georges Bernanos

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

Thomas Bernhard

Otto Bettmann

World-Telegram photo by Al Aumuller, 1947 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5867)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

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

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Tadeusz Borowski

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Paul Bowles

Kay Boyle

Ray Bradbury

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Stewart Brand

Richard Brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Bertolt Brecht

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Christine Brooke-Rose

Carcanet Press
Charles Brockden Brown

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

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

Bryan Burrough

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton trans.

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Michel Butor

Lord Byron

John Cage

Wikimedia Commons.
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Le Carre

Lewis Carroll


Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Bartolomé de Las Casas

from Wikipedia
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.
Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Benvenuto Cellini

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)
The Art Institute of Chicago

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jean Cocteau

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

from Wikipedia
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Museum Ludwig Cologne

South Entrance, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Photo by user Raymond / Wikimedia Commons.
Confucius


Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robert Coover

Le Corbusier


Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.

Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.

E. E. Cummings

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

Guy Debord

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

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

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
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)
H. D.

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

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Marguerite Duras

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

Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)

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
Frederick Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Erasmus


Steve Erickson

Peter Esterhazy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

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

Matt Derry
Felix Feneon

Paul Signac, Portrait of Félix Fénéon (in front of an enamel of a rhythmic background of measures and angles, shades and colors), 1890
Joshua Ferris

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
John Fiske

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007

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

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Sir James George Frazer


Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Jean Froissart

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

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

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

Joyce Ravid
Jean Genet

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson


Andre Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Todd Gitlin

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
William Godwin

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

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute

Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection

Alasdair Gray

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Ursula K. LeGuin

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

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

from Wikipedia

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
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)
O. Henry

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

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Christopher Hill

Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Eric Hobsbawm

E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Homer

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

Photographer unknown
John Horgan

Photo by Sage Ross / English Wikipedia.
Michel Houellebecq

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid

David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Thomas Henry Huxley

"Professor Huxley. F.R.S."
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henrik Ibsen

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

Eugene Ionesco

Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
Elfriede Jelinek

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.

Franz Kafka

Ken Kalfus

Kamo-Chomei

Kamo no Chomei. Drawing by Kikuchi Yosai. Wikimedia Commons.
Immanuel Kant

Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Donald Keene ed.

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Walt Kelly

Courtesy of Michael Barrier

Jack Kerouac


Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Danilo Kiš

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Kenneth Koch

Larry Rivers
Jerzy Kosinski

Alex Kotlowitz

Photo by Lilithcat, taken at Printers Row Book Fair, 7 June 2008
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Saul A. Kripke

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

Photo by user photo2008 / Wikimedia Commons
Peter Kropotkin

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

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Langenscheidt KG

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

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Halldor Laxness

Gottfried Leibniz

Mihail Lermontov

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Janna Levin

jannalevin.com
Primo Levi


Claude Lévi-Strauss

C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Copyright G.G. Bain, 1911 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-135384)
Rosa Liksom

Abraham Lincoln

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Elias Lonnrot ed.

wikimedia commons - portait by Eva Ingman (1853–1914)
Anita Loos

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

Robert Lowell

Lucretius

Martin Luther

Ross MacDonald

Niccolo Machiavelli

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Nicolas Malebranche

wikimedia commons
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Thomas Mann

Herbert Marcuse

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Christopher Marlowe

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

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia

Harry Mathews

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
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
Ernst Mayr

University of Konstanz
Larry McCaffery

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Marshall McLuhan

Rand McNally and Company

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Claire Messud

Derek Shapton
Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Gustav Meyrink

Projekt Gutenberg-DE
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
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)
Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Alberto Moravia

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

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

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Paul Muldoon

Harry Mulisch


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
Pablo Neruda


Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

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/
Ovid

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Thomas Paine

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Pier Paolo Pasolini

w:it:User:Provola

John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
St. Paul

Image from Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 876 (AA size))
Milorad Pavic

Samuel Pepys

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
D.B.C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Luigi Pirandello

Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Dawn Powell

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Oxford University Press,

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France

Marcel Proust

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

W. V. Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Francois Rabelais

Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Jean Renoir

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

Samuel Richardson


Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTom Robbins

James M. Robinson ed.

Marilynne Robinson

Jon Ronson

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Barney Rosset ed.

Scott Rettberg, January 8, 2000
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Jerry Rubin

Photo © Robert Altman 2008
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)
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)
Juan Jose Saer

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J. D. Salinger

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Friedrich Schiller

Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Walter Scott

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

Art by Zero
Maurice Sendak

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman

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 Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Shikibu Murasaki

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
Georges Simenon

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

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Josef Skvorecky

public domain
Adam Smith

Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Christopher Sorrentino

Christopher Sorrentino (right) with Jonathan Lethem
at the National Book Awards 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganStephen Spender

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Baruch Spinoza

Lincoln Steffens

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-05710)
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 Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Elizabeth Stoddard

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Bram Stoker

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)
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