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Rafael Abalos

Esby
Pietro Abelardo

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Poppy Adams

Rob Sturges
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Theodor W. Adorno

Eschilo

Esopo

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
César Aira

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Boris Akunin

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Pedro A. de Alarcon

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_Alberoni2.jpg
Rafael Alberti

Alceo

Louisa M. Alcott

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

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

Vittorio Alfieri

Nelson Algren

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

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Rosemary Altea

Julia Alvarez

Jorge Amado

Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Edmondo De Amicis

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und
praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Lou Andreas-Salomé

Leonid Andrejev

wikimedia commons
Ivo Andric

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonimo

Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Apuleio

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Reinaldo Arenas

Hannah Arendt

Pietro Aretino

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen
und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Ludovico Ariosto

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

Aristotele

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

Jonty Wilde
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Antonia Arslan

Jerry Bauer
Matilde Asensi

(c) Miguel Perdiguero
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Miguel A. Asturias

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. Hugh Auden

Agostino

Marco Aurelio

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John L. Austin

Averroe

Detail from the 14th century fresco 'Triunfo de Santo Tomás' by Florantine artist Andrea Bonaiuto.
Massimo D'Azeglio

Francesco Hayez, 1860
Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Isaak Babel

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

Photo by Jenn Habel
Ingeborg Bachmann

Francesco Bacone

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.
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Marco Baldini

Marco Baldini, photo by Roberto Priolo
James G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Sergio Bambaren

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Henri Barbusse

Calderon de la Barca

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

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

Giambattista Basile

Artist unidentified.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Zygmut Bauman

from Wikipedia
Frank L. Baum

Library of Congress
Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Emilia Pardo Bazan

Georg Buchner

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone De Beauvoir

Cesare Beccaria

Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Samuel Beckett

Simon Beckett

Hilary Beckett
William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Gioconda Belli

Photo by Jorge Mejía peralta / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Saul Bellow

Ted Bell

Photograph by Hugo Tillman
Andrej Belyj

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Tonino Benacquista

Roberto Benigni

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Benigni.jpg?uselang=it
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Ingmar Bergman

Georges Bernanos

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

Louis de Bernières

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mark Billingham

© Charlie Hopkinson 2007
Adolfo Bioy Casares

Michael Blake

Terry Ballard, October 4, 2005
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

Wu Ming 2

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Boll

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

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jorge L. Borges

Tadeusz Borowski

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Sam Bourne

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Peter Boxall

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Bertold Brecht

André Breton

Gottfried August Burger

Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger, 1771. Collection: Gleimhaus Halberstadt, Germany. File via Wikimedia Commons.
André Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Hermann Broch

Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Louis Bromfield

Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1933
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)
Ann Bronte

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
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Sylvia Browne

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Giordano Bruno

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Gotamo Buddha

Buddhist Temple, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photo by McKay Savage / Flickr.
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Michail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jacob Burckhardt

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

Jerry Bauer
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Samuel Butler

Antonia S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Byron

Massimo Cacciari

Chiara Marra, October 6, 2007
Giulio Cesare

public domain
James M. Cain

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

Caldwell. Erskine

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

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Tommaso Campanella

Albert Camus

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

Eva Cantarella

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2249125548/in/set-72157603706880065/
Karel Capek

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Luigi Capuana

Orson S. Card

Giosuè Carducci

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carré

Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère, photo by Jean-Marie David
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Bartolomé de las Casas

from Wikipedia
Baldassarre Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

Catullo

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Costantino Kavafis

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Gianni Celati

Benvenuto Cellini

Celso

Lithograph by Pierre Roch Vigneron, circa 1865 (Wikimedia Commons)
Javier Cercas

Miguel A. Monjas
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Francois René Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
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)
Daniel Chavarría

Stephen Chbosky

Anton Cechov

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Lee Child

Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Noam Chomsky

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Cicerone

from Wikipedia
Emil Cioran

Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Tom Clancy

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Chris Cleave

Charlie Hopkinson
Kurt Cobain

P.B. Rage, 1992
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jean Cocteau

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

Paulo Coelho

Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen on the left. Photo by Rita Molnar, Cannes Film Festival 2001
J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Cristoforo Colombo

Columbus, After a Portrait by Herrer ~ From "History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Ivy Compton Burnett

Auguste Comte

Confucio

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Hendrik Conscience

Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Coover

Pierre Corneille

Wikipédia France
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Catherine Coulter

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jim Crace

Robert Crais

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Benedetto Croce

Archibald J. Cronin

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

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Clive Cussler

Kjell Ola Dahl

Anneli Salo
Anna Dale

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Gabriele D'Annunzio

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

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Marie Darrieussecq

John Foley
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Robertson Davies

Lydia Davis

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Sandrone Dazieri

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Andrea De Carlo

www.andreadecarlo.com
Didier Decoin

Esby
Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Don DeLillo

Giovanni Della Casa

Giovanni Della Casa (cropped) from frontispiece to Opere di Monsig. Giovanni Della Casa (1707)
Nelson DeMille

Demostene

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jacques Derrida

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Jared 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
Jeanne Kalogridis

Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Dione Cassio

Walt Disney

Chitra B. Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
Edgar L. Doctorow

Jim Dodge

Photo by Bob Doran
Mary Mapes Dodge

Paul Doherty

Hilda Doolittle

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Alexandre Dumas

Marguerite Duras

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

Ronald Dworkin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Alfredo Bryce Echenique

Bryce
Johannes Eckhart

Umberto Eco

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

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

Tom Egeland

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Joseph K. von Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Albert Einstein

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

Will Eisner

Plinio il Vecchio

George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Empedocle

Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
J.F. Englert

Susan Stava
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Epitteto

wikimedia commons
Epicuro

Image by ChrisO, 18 June 2006.From
WkipediaErasmo da Rotterdam

Steve Erickson

Victor Erofeev

www.everyfoto.com
Karen Essex

photo by Lisa Rutledge
Peter Esterhazy

Photo by Mariusz Kubik
Rudolf Eucken

From " The New York Times
Current History of the European War," 1915 ~ Project Gutenberg
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripide

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

Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Ildefonso Falcones

deramaenrama
Oriana Fallaci

Photo © Emilia A. Simonelli / Flickr.
Frantz Fanon

Joseph S. Le Fanu

William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Ludwig Feuerbach

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Johann G. Fichte

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

Bust by Andrea Ferrucci (at Florence Cathedral)
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Francis S. 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
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Dario Fo

Jonathan S. Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Allan Folsom

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

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

Photo © Robert Yager
Cecil S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Ugo Foscolo

François-Xavier-Pascal Fabre (1813).
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anatole France

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

Stigmatisation of St. Francis by El Greco, 1585.
Anna Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
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)
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Carlo Emilio Gadda

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Benito Perez Galdos

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Galeno

Claude Galien. Lithograph by Pierre Roche Vigneron. (Paris: Lith de Gregoire et Deneux, ca. 1865). From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Stephen Gallagher

Kuki Gallmann

Max Gallo

ΛΦΠ
Mohandas K. Gandhi

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

Bust of Géza Gárdonyi, Szeged, Hungary. Photo by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Alex Garland

Théophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Mike Gayle

Photo by Liane Hentscher
David Gemmell

Jean Genet

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
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

Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
André Gide

1893
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Karl Gjellerup

Courtesy of the Royal Danish Library/ Dept. of Maps, Prints and Photographs (image use requires permission from the RDL).
William Godwin

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

Wikipédia France
Nikolaj Gogol

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

Francisco Goldman

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
William Goldman

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

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne e Serge Golon

courtesy of the official website: http://www.worldofangelique.com/
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Juan Gomez Jurado

Tomatox1968
Ivan Goncarov

David Goodis

Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Nadine Gordimer

Glenn Gould

Walter Curtin (Toronto, 1974)
Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Guido Gozzano

Unknown photographer
Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Almudena Grandes

Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

John Gray

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Jacob e 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.)
Hans J. Grimmelshausen

Painting by Marcus Bloß (1641)
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
George Grossmith

public domain image
Ernesto Guevara

Alberto Korda
Francesco Guicciardini

Jan Guillou

Wikimedia Commons
Ursula K. Le Guin

Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hella Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Jurgen Habermas

Wolfram Huke / Wikimedia Commons
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Laurell K. Hamilton

Masha Hamilton

Photo by Briana Orr
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Robert Harris

Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Eliza Haywood

Ben Hecht

Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Martin Heidegger

Henrich Heine

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

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)
Aleksandar Hemon

Amy Hempel

Katharine Hepburn

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

Detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1510.
José Hernandez

José Hernández (1834-1886)
Erodoto

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