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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Sherwood Anderson

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

Saint Anselm

Aristotle

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

©Rowena
Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Saint Augustine of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Sir 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.
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Louis Bayard

louisbayard.com
Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Gregory Benford

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
George Berkeley

David Bevington

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Mary Black

Max Pride, 2005
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

James Boswell

Ben Bova


Ray Bradbury

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Edwin G. Burrows

Columbia University
(Mr. Burrows is at left)
Sir Richard F. Burton

Samuel Butler

Lord George Gordon Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

(right) Credit: NASA/Doreen B. Zudell
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

wikimedia commons - portait by Rama
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Andrew Chugg

Andrew Chugg in front of an ancient wall in the Shallalat Gardens in Alexandria, March 2008

Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Christopher Columbus

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Guy Consolmagno

Guy Consolmagno with the Vatican Meteorite collection, Castel Gandalfo, 2002. Photo by Kevin Nickerson.
James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Wikipédia France
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Richard Henry Dana

Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester Del Rey

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
E. L. Doctorow


John Donne

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

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

Photo circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-00764)
Frederick Douglass

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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


Alexandre Dumas

Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Editors of Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
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


Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Ralph Ellison


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Desiderius Erasmus

John Meade Falkner

Courtesy of Betty Wilson
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

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

Ian Fleming

Shelby Foote


C.S. Forester

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

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Robert Frost

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

John Burlinson
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
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)
William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Baltasar Gracian

Cervantes Institute
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
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)
O. Henry

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

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Christopher Hill

E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Douglas Hunter

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Kenneth T. Jackson

Columbia University
Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
James Joyce

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

Immanuel Kant

John Keats

Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Stephen King

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

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Madame de Lafayette

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
C.S. Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

David Liss

Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lucretius

Niccolo Machiavelli

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
A. E. W. Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Malachy McCourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

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)

John Milton

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Sir Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Robert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Craig Nelson

Kathryn Millan
James L. Nelson

James Nelson website, picture enhanced by vintage_books. Permission received to copy, enhance and upload photo during phone conversation November 17, 2008.
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
E. B. O'Callaghan

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

Wikimedia Commons
George Orwell

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


Thomas Paine

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

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Samuel Pepys

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

Photo © Jon Barandica
Petronius

Nathaniel Philbrick

Plato

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

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Roy Porter

Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Image from The Second Rhode Island volunteers at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1915) by Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Gene Roddenberry

Listening to fans after his lecture at the Student Union of the University of Texas at Austin, ca. 1978. Photograph by Larry D. Moore.
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
John Scalzi

Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress

Sir Walter Scott

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

Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Samuel Shellabarger

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Benedictus de Spinoza

Olaf Stapledon

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

John Steinbeck

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
George R. Stewart

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Tacitus

James Taylor

Evan Osherow, November 2, 1999
Alfred Tennyson

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
James Tiptree

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

John Varley

Immanuel Velikovsky

Donna Foster Roizen
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Virgil

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

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Booker T. Washington

1911 photograph (cropped)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George Washington

Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrving Werstein

Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

I took this photo!
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
P.G. Wodehouse

Donald A. Wollheim

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Richard Zacks

Yevgeny (Eugene) Zamiatin

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