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Steve Cadman
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
James Agee

Allan Ahlberg

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Alain- Fournier

Wikipédia France
Isaac. Arr. A Christopherson. Albeniz

Isaac Albeniz
Madeleine K. Albright

from Wikipedia
Louisa May 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)

Alighieri Dante

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews

Charles Valentin Alkan

from Wikipedia
Isabel Allende

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

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (cropped) ~ Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
A Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Jorge Amado

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Matthew T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Ivo Andric

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Catherine Anholt

Catherine and Laurence Anholt
Anonymous


Hannah Arendt

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Thomas Arne

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

John Burlinson
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Andrea Ashworth

Kate Atkinson

Nava Atlas

Evan Atlas
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Leopold Auer

St Augustine

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
A. J. Ayer

C P E Bach


Johann Sebastian Bach

Wikipedia.
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.
Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Duck Baker

Andy Newcombe, September 20, 2007
Michael Balfe

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

wikipedia
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Granville Bantock

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-37015
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Barber

Henri Barbusse

Pat Barker

Bill Barnes

Photo provided by Bill Barnes
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J M Barrie

John Barth


Bela Bartok

Bartok in 1927. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Ralph Bates

Ralph Bates, 1938. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer

Zymunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Nina Bawden

Topham Picturepoint
Emilia Pardo Bazan

BBC

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Canley (Wikipedia user)
Simone de Beauvoir

Ernest Becker


Samuel Beckett

Bede

Thomas Beecham

Sir Thomas Beecham, Buenos Aires, 1950. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Antony Beevor

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Harry Behn

Alice Lawrence Behn
Vincenzo Bellini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Hilaire Belloc

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

Saul Bellow

Quentin Bell

Ralph Benatzky

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)
Tony Benn

Anti-war demo, London, March 19, 2005 (photo credit: JK the Unwise, Wikipedia user)
E. F. Benson

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

Alban Berg

Thomas Berger

Charles De Beriot

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

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Louis de Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Leonard, Bernstein

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Franz Berwald

John Betjeman

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
T.J. Binyon

Courtesy of www.lifeinlegacy.com
Isabella L. Bird

Augustine Birrell

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Georges Bizet

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

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Richard P., Blackmur

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


William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Lenore Blegvad

Photo by Louise Borden
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Heinrich Boll

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

John Burlinson
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
David Bodanis

Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Jorge Luis Broges

Alexander Borodin

Tadeusz Browski

James Boswell

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Michael Bracewell

Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Bradford Enterprises
Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Johannes Brahms

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Bertolt Brecht

Haim Bresheeth

Breyten Breytenbach

Nightscream
Raymond Briggs

Stephen Briggs

Stephen Briggs as Vetinari
Andre Brink

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

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

J. K. Potter
Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson

Benjamin Britten

David Bromwich

Photo courtesy of David Bromwich, Department of English, Yale University.
Anne 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
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Joyce Brothers

World Telegram photo by Phyllis Twacht, 1957 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117953)
Janet Browne

Rikke Claeson
Elizabeth Barrett. Graham Browning, Colin (Editor)

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marc Brown

Max Bruch

from Wikipedia

Anton Bruckner

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Elizabeth Buchan

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
Pearl S Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Bill (Editor) Buford

Gaspar Tringale

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Jakob Christoph Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

Kevin Burke

Uploaded to Flickr by user Thom C
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard Burton

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

Wikipedia (public domain)
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
William Byrd

from Wikipedia
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

Carmen Callil

Monica Curtin
Simon Callow


Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer

Albert Camus

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

Truman Capote

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Giacomo Carissimi

Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674), from Wikimedia Commons
Nancy Carlson

Courtesy of Nancy Carlson
Thomas Carlyle

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

Lewis Carroll

Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Violet Bonham Carter

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-07463)
Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Baldassare 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)
Charles Causley

Benvenuto Cellini

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Colin Chapman

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier

from Wikipedia
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey. Andrew Chaucer, Malcolm (Editor)

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

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Anton Chekhov

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

Luigi Cherubini
G. k. Chesterton

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Noam Chomsky

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

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Cicero

from Wikipedia
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Marcus Clarke

Wikimedia
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault

From Wikimedia Commons
William Cobbett

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

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


J.M. Coetzee

David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
Babette Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Ivy Compton-Burnett


Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Cook

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

Prof. Michael Cook (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
Arcangelo. Arr. A Christopherson. Corelli

Stephen Cosgrove

Francois. Arr. A Christopherson. Couperin

Francois Couperin, 1688-1733 ~ Wikimedia Commons
Louis Couperin

from Wikipedia
Noel Coward

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

David Crane

Catherine Eldridge
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
e.e. cummings

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

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ivor Cutler

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)
Liza Crihfield Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Richard Henry Dana Jr.


Charles Darwin

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

Wikipédia France
Marcia Davenport

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

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Robertson Davies

W. H Davies

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Library (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Angela Y. Davis

Peter Davison


Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Percy Dearmer

http://copies.anglicansonline.org/churchtimes/990903/feat.htm

Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Leo Delibes

from Wikipedia
Don Delillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Tomie De Paola

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Astra Desmond

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
David Deutsch


Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
David Dickson

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

Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen",
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
E.L. Doctorow

Mary Mapes Dodge

Julia Donaldson

Gaetano Donizetti

Public domain. (Wikipedia)

John Donne

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


Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Used by permission of
Baker Publishing Group, copyright © 2008. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published(see © info.)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle.
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)
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah (Editor) Dunant

Elaine Dundy

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Margarite Duras

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

Antonin Dvorak

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-25598)
(cropped)
Readers Digest

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Edward Elgar

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-36551)

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
Duke Ellington

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
William Empson

John Burlinson
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.
Desiderius Erasmus

Eleanor Estes

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

Photo © Esther Dyson
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Harold Evans

manuel de Falla

William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Gabriel Faure

Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré (1845 –1924) by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (The Paris Museum of Music). (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)

Gustave Flaubert

Renee Fleming

Carl Flesch

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Arthur Foote

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

Ford Madox Ford

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

Photo © Robert Yager
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
C S Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Richard Foster

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Men Fox

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Anatole. Trans. A W Evans France

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

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Anna Freud

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJ.F.C. Fuller

Image from Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (1919) by Sir Albert Gerald Stern
Frank Füredi

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Wilhelm Furtwangler

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Giovanni Gabrieli

From Wikipedia
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon

Benito Perez Galdos

Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jean Genet

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
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)
Anthony Giddens

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

1893
Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
George Gissing

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

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Christoph W Gluck

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
Vincent van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de

Nikolai Gogol

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

Karl Goldmark

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Ivan Goncharov

Edmond L.A.H.De Goncourt

Photo by Félix Nadar
(courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Diane Goode

Peter Goode
Nadine Gordimer

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Maxim Gorky

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

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Glenn Gould

Walter Curtin (Toronto, 1974)
Charles Gounod

From "The Love Affairs of Great Musicians" by Rupert Hughes
Francisco Goya

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828)
Self portrait, etching
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Bob Graham

Sen. Bob Graham's U.S. Senate Photo (Wikipedia)
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Gunter Grass

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

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Deborah Gray

Courtesy of http://www.deborahgray.com/
John Gray

A.C. Grayling

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Edvard Grieg

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Jane Grigson

The Brothers 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.)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
George Grossmith

public domain image
Sir George Grove

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ursula K. Le Guin

Lars Gustafsson

Suz
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Guy

Author's website
Kathleen Hale

Calvin S. Hall

Courtesy of G. William Domhoff, Ph.D.,
at dreamresearch.net

Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
George Frideric Handel

Wikipedia Commons.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Earl Harewood

George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (center). Image ©
ÖNB/Wien
HarperCollins Publishers

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Paul Harris

Robert Harris

Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Max Hastings

Stephen W Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Haydn

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
F.A. Hayek


William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Edward Heath

Photo by FRANK HALL
(defenseimagery.mil)
(cropped)
Heinrich Heine

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

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Stephen Heller

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

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
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)
A. P. Herbert

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Herman Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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John Himmelman

Paul Hindemith

Russell Hoban

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Thomas Hobbes

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C Walter Hodges

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Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Billie Holiday

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Jack Holland

Michael Holroyd

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Gustav Holst

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Homer

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Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
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Arthur Honegger

Anthony Hope

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Karen Horney

1938 photograph (Wikipedia Commons)
Attia Hosain

Richard House

A. E. Houseman

Bohumil Hrabal

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Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
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Tim Hughes

Music Theorist & Writer Tim Hughes ~ Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Victor Hugo

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Alexander Von Humboldt

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Johann Nepomuk Hummel

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Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Thomas Cranmer by Gerlach Flicke. Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Maynard Hutchins

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Will Hutton

Aldous Huxley

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"Professor Huxley. F.R.S."
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Edward Hyams

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives, around 1889. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Ian Jack

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Shirley Jackson

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert

Henry James

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Leos Janacek

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Bert Jansch

Brother G, August 20, 2006
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Susan Jeffers

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Philip Jenkins

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Simon Jenkins

Jerome K. Jerome

Augustus John

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Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Griff Rhys Jones

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Terry Jones

Ben Jonson

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James Joyce

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Carl Gustav Jung

Ernst Junger


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Herbert von Karajan

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Yasunari Kawabata

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Jackie Kay

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Fergal Keane

Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Jonathan Keates

Jerry Bauer
John Keats

Garrison Keillor

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Steven Kellogg

Jim Kelly

Neil Cooper
Frederick Kempe

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Thomas À Kempis

David Kennedy

Center for American Progress
Paul Kennedy

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Jack Kerouac

Philip (ed) Kerr

Ian Kershaw

Omar. Briggs Khayyam, Tony (Editor)

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Dick King-Smith

Rudyard Kipling

Melanie Klein

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Heinrich von Kleist

Ruth Kluger

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Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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Jacques Lacan

Choderlos De Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Charles Lamb

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Andrew Lang

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Philip Larkin

Marghanita Laski

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Orlande de Lassus

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D.H. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Nigella Lawson

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Edward Lear

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Jonathan Lear

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F.R. Leavis

Harper Lee

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Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
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John Burlinson
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Leoncavallo

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Mikhail Lermontov

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

from Wikipedia
Doris May Lessing

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Julius Lester


Primo Levi

Amy Levy

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
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Lin Yutang

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Franz Liszt

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Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lloyd

Luigi Novi
John G. Lockhart

John Gibson Lockhart. Frontispiece from The life and letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1897) by Andrew Lang
David Lodge

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John A. Lomax

John Lomax collection, Library of Congress
Jack London

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Jonathan London

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Anita Loos

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Federico Garcia Lorca

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Compton Mackenzie

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Gustav Mahler

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Carl Van Vechten
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
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Ernest Mandel (1923-1995)
(Marxists Internet Archive)
Heinrich Mann


Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

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Bohuslav Martinu

Portrait of Bohuslav Martinu
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
John Martyn

Tim Duncan
Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Jean Marzollo

Pietro Mascagni

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-35628
John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Andrew Matthews

Andrew Matthews
www.andrewmatthews.com
W. Somerset Maugham

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Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of 30 in London. Watercolor painting by James Warren Childe, 1839. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Yehudi Menuhin

Oliver Messiaen

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John Miller

John Miller (1958-), FBI Assistant Director Office of Public Affairs
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Jonathan Miller

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Giles Milton


John Milton

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Shirou Aoyama (1956)
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Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
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Jean-Baptiste Moliere

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Stanislaw Moniuszko

Bust of Stanisław Moniuszko, Vilnius, Lithuania. Photo by user Juliux / Wikimedia Commons.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


Michel E. De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Hugh Burnand

Monteverdi

from Wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alberto Moravia

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

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

Blake Morgan
Samuel Eliot Morison

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Jan Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
John Mortimer

Leopold Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Zsigmond Moricz

Rippl-Rónai József (1861–1927)
Herta Muller

Alice Munro

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Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
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Jill Murphy

Andrew Murray

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The British Museum
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Modest Mussorgsky

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V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Natsume Soseki

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David Shankbone, August 2007
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Edith Nesbit
Beverley. Nichols

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Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory

Carl Nielsen

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Sven Nordqvist

Soppakanuuna
Amelie Nothomb

Christine Nostlinger

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna O'Brien

Flannery O'Conner

Jacques Offenbach

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
William Hudson O'Hanlon

Steffanie O'Hanlon
John Ohara

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Michael Ondaatje

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Alexis O'Neill

Photo by Sonya Sones
Susie Orbach

Carl Orff

P.J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

George Orwell

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

from Wikipedia
Thomas Paine

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

Painting by Ferdinand Heilbruth (From "Among the Great Masters of Music," 1906) ~ Gutenberg Project
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Mungo Park

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

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Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Terry Parssinen

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
A.B. Paterson

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Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Christopher Patten

Kaihsu Tai
Milorad Pavic

Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Tom Paxton

From the State Library and Archives of Florida
Octavio Paz

William Penn

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

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Nikolaus Pevsner

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D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

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Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Plato

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Ignaz Joseph Pleyel

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Clive Ponting, et al

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Laurens Van Der Post

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) / Photo ©
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Samantha Power

John Priestley

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Peter Pringle

Sergei Prokofiev

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Marcel Proust

Alf Proysen

Dorling Kindersley

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.

Giacomo Puccini

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Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman

Henry Purcell

William Nelson Gardiner / Photo ©
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Eca De Queiroz

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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Thomas De Quincey

François Rabelais

Sergei Rachmaninov

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Craig Raine

Ian Rankin

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Maurice Ravel

Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
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Herbert Read

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Piers Paul Read

John Reed

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Max Reger

What We Hear in Music, Anne S. Faulkner, 1913 (Wikipedia)
Anton Reicha

By M. F. Dien, 1815 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Ottorino Respighi

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Samuel Richardson

Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley
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Rainer Maria Rilke

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
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Marilynne Robinson

Claudia Roden

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Carl R Rogers

Natalie Rogers
Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer
Romain Rolland

Phyllis Root

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Charles Rosen

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Phyllis Rose

Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Diana Ross

Photo by Alan Light, 1990 (Cropped/Flickr)
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870

Joseph Roth

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Dorothy Rowe

Maggie Hannan
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Arthur Rubinstein

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress
Salman Rushdie

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Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
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Bertrand Russell

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Mariam C. Said
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Camille Saint-Saens

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J.D. Salinger

Jean Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

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Erik Satie

Erik Satie. Bibliothèque nationale de France. Wikimedia Commons.
Alessandro Scarlatti

from Wikipedia
Domenico Scarlatti

from Wikipedia
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Axel Scheffler

Axel Scheffler drawing pictures for Julia Donaldson's Charlie Cook's Favourite Book, September 2005, Oxford.
J. Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Alfred Schnittke

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
E F Schumacher

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Robert Schumann

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Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
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R F Scott

Source: 1912 newspaper "The Sphere"
Walter Scott, Sir

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
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Alexander Scriabin

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Roger Scruton (1944-)
photograph by bartvs, Antwerpen, June 23th, 2006.

W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Will Self

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Seneca

Dr. Seuss

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Sir Ernest Shackleton

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William Shakespeare

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Beny Shlevich
Bernard Shaw

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

V. Shiva

Dmitri Shostakovich

Office of War Information, 1942
Foreword by Lionel Shriver


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Peter Singer (1946- )
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Roger Fry (1866-1934)
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Josef Skvorecky

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Ali Smith

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Tobias George Smollett

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Fernando Sor

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Albert Speer

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Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Self-portrait of Spohr as a young man
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Jon (ed) Stallworthy

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Stendhal

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Frank Richard Stockton

See below.
Bram Stoker

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Thomas Stephen Szasz

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Karol Szymanowski

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Thomas Tallis

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Dylan Thomas

Edward Thomas

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E. P Thompson

Richard Thompson

Cropedy Festival 2005.
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Henry David Thoreau

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