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Steve Cadman
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Lord Acton

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Henry Adams

Joseph Addison

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Theodor W. Adorno

Henry C. Agrippa

Mark Akenside

Project Gutenberg
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Vittorio Alfieri

Nelson Algren

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Tariq Ali

Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Peter Altenberg

Louis Althusser

A Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
A. R. Ammons

H.C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Benedict Anderson

Public-conversations
Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Sherwood Anderson

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

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Hannah Arendt

Thomas Augustine Arne

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

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

Hans Carl Artmann

National Gallery of Art (U. S.)

Sunset, West Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Photo by user Brian Finifter / Flickr.
Royal Academy of Art

Drawing by Simon Fieldhouse
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Nadeem Aslam

Jerry Bauer
Alan Atkinson

University of New England
Kate Atkinson

W. H. Auden

Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Jane Austen

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

John Austin

Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Isaac Babel

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

Karl Baedeker

Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
M. M. Bakhtin

Michael Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Lester Bangs

Joseph Banks

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

Jerry Bauer
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Marjorie Faith Barnard

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Stephanie Barron

Sir John Barrow

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Donald barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Daisy Bates

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Edmond Baudoin

Edmond Baudoin at his desk
Wolfgang Bauer

Yehuda Bauer

Yehuda Bauer
Richard Bauman

Courtesy of Indiana University
Georg Buchner

David B.

Photo taken by Marcela Ewert
Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, Sir

Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Simone de Beauvoir

August Bebel

Photo by Gustav Backofen (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
Aphra Behn

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

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

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

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
Juan Benet

J. L. Cabanyal (Claude at findagrave.com)
Walter Benjamin

Arnold Bennett

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

Joan Bennett, American actress (22 March 1939) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienTony Benn

Anti-war demo, London, March 19, 2005 (photo credit: JK the Unwise, Wikipedia user)
Jeremy Bentham

Bernard Berenson

Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Lauren Gail Berlant

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Thomas Bernhard

Eduard Bernstein

Wikimedia Commons & University of Texas at Austin's Public Domain Portrait Gallery
John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Charles Bertram

Magician Charles Bertram (born James Bassett). Image from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (1908) by Harry Houdini
John Betjeman

Thomas Bewick

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

Hans Peter Schaefer
Marthe Bibesco

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Frank Bidart

© Jerry Bauer
Binet Alfred

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Andrei Bitov

Dmitry Rozhkov
R. P. Blackmur

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

Thomas Phillips
Maurice Blanchot

William Bligh

"Midshipman William Bligh"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Heinrich Boll

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

Ernst Bloch

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Franz Boas

In collection of American Philosophical Society, F8.1.16.
Philip Bobbitt

Matthew Fuller
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Nicolas Boileau Despréaux

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Nicolas Boileau
Musée national du Château de Versailles, France.
Henry St. John Bolingbroke

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

Daniel J Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

George Henry Borrow

wikipedia
Bernard Bosanquet

Jacques Bossuet

From "The Hundred Greatest Men," 1885 (UofTexas Public Domain Photo Gallery)
James Boswell

Paul Bourget

From "Revue illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Jane Auer Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

Kay Boyle

Michael Bracewell

M. E. Braddon

Sarah Bradford

Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Franz Brentano

Andre Breton

David Brewster, Sir

Sir David Brewster
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Great Britain

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

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Christine Brooke-Rose

Carcanet Press
Bill Brown

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Charles Brockden Brown

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

Robert Browning

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

by Joan Pantsios, at
Flickr.com. Fortini Brown is in the center.
Charles Le Brun

Bust by Antoine Coysevox, 1679,
Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2006)
Jean De La Bruyere

Wikiépdia France
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Peter Henry Buck

Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Reference number: 1/2-037931-F
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin

Mikhail Bulgakov

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

From Wikipedia
Luis Bunuel

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Edmund Burke

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

Fanny Burney

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Wilhelm Busch

Selfportrait (1894)
Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Wikimedia Commons
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Samuel Butler

George Gordon Byron

James M. Cain

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

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

John Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Ada Cambridge

Albert Camus

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

David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Truman Capote

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

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

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

From Wikimedia Commons
David Carroll

Photo by Kyla Ward
Anne Carson

Peter Smith
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Paul Carter

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Giacomo Chevalier de Seingalt Casanova

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

from Wikipedia
Martin Cash

Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
C. P. Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Stanley Cavell

Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of

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

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Marc Chagall

Carl Van Vechten Photographs,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-USZ62-42495)
Dipesh Chakrabarty

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
William Chambers, Sir

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

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany
James K. Chandler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jeff Chang

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Charles Chaplin

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

Self-Portrait with Glasses, 1775.
Mehdi Charef

François René de Chateaubriand

Wikipedia
BRUCE CHATWIN

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Earl of

Dan Chiasson

Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Charles Churchill

Engravings of British Methodist clergy collection, Pitts Library, Emory University
Colley Cibber

G. Vander Gucht (fl. 1752)
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
E. M Cioran

John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Edward Hyde Clarendon, Earl of

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

Wikimedia
Samuel Clarke

Eldridge Cleaver

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

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

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

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
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)
Jonathan Coe

J. M. Coetzee

John William Colenso

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

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

John Collier

Max Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Jean Comaroff

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
John L. Comaroff

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Ivy Compton-Burnett

William Congreve

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Constant Benjamin

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

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

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

Library of Congress Print and Photographic Division
Julio Cortázar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
John Courtenay

http://www.archive.org/details/juvenilepoems00cour
Malcolm Cowley

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

public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg
George Crabbe

David Crane

Catherine Eldridge
Hart Crane

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

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

David Crystal

Ralph Cudworth

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

Wikipedia
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

Wikipédia France
Salvador Dali

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

Ragu Rai/Magnum
David Damrosch

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Eleanor Dark

Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Honore Daumier

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

From "Revue Illustrée", 1887
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jenny Davidson

Horton Davies

Prof. Horton Marlais Davies. Photo by Philip Davies, 2003 (photo courtesy of Princeton Univesity)
Lydia Davis

Mike Davis

Michael Davitt

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

Regis Debray

Régis Debray in 1970
Edgar Degas

Self-portrait, circa 1854-1855
Eugène Delacroix

Self-portrait, 1860 (Yorck Project)
Don DeLillo

John Denham, Sir

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

Columbia University
Jacques Derrida

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Dickens

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

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

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Charles Wentworth Dilke

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

In Kenya, 1918
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Wikipedia
Alfred Doblin

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
E.L. Doctorow

Philip Doddridge

The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, Theron Brown and Hezekaiah Butterworth
Heimito Von Doderer

Don Juan Donoso Cortes

Gustave Doré

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
Mark Doty

Norman Douglas

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
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John W. Dower

Columbia University
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Bust of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Havixbeck, Germany. Photo by Marc Ryckaert / Wikimedia Commons.
Johanna Drucker

John Dryden

J. A. Dubois

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

Leon Hartt, Marcel Duchamp (center), and Mrs. Hartt: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-63273)
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Sir Mic Dummett

Klaus Reisinger
Douglas Dunn

Fay Godwin
Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Isabelle Eberhardt

Wikimedia Commons
Laurence Echard

Jean Echenoz

Maria Edgeworth

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

Brian Leon, September 8, 2007
Maurice Francis Egan

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Ilya Ehrenburg

ushmm.org
Sergei Eisenstein

Pliny the Elder

M. Barnard Eldershaw

George Eliot

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
William Empson

John Burlinson
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
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.
Max Ernst

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Evelyn

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

Connie Miller
Julian Faigan

B. H. Fairchild

© Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Frantz Fanon

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
George Farquhar

wikimedia commons
James T Farrell

William Faulkner

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

wikimedia commons
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
Adam Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

Susan Ferrier

R. Thorburn
Joshua Ferris

David Ferry

Ludwig Feuerbach

Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Stanley Eugene Fish

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
John Fiske

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
Camille Flammarion

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

Ian Fleming

John Fletcher

Theodor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Fontenelle

Ford Madox Ford

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

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
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
Johann Reinhold Forster

John Fortescue

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

George Fox

wikipedia
Anatole France

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

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Miles Franklin

Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Freedman

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Alice Fulton

author photo by Hank De Leo
Frank Furedi

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Joseph Furphy

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42700)
Alan Furst

William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Tate Gallery

Photo by Francesco Gasparetti / Flickr.
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Francis Galton, Sir

From "The Life, Letters, and Labors of Francis Galton" by Karl Pearson.
M.K. Gandhi

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

Joel Garreau

Photo by Kenneth Garrett
David Garrick

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

William John Thomson
Ina May Gaskin

Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry, http://www.nambassa.com/ (Wikipedia)
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Paul Gauguin

from Wikipedia
Theophile Gautier

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

Jean Genêt

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Ian Gibson

Miguel A. Monjas
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Fiona Giles

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Friedrich Gilly

Deutsche Bundespost
William Gilpin

Engraving of Rev. William Gilpin, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 231, August, 1869
George Gissing

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

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Louise Gluck

Jean-Luc Godard

James Stencilowsky
William Godwin

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

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Witold Gombrowicz

Wikimedia Commons
Martin Goodman

Nicholas Hawkins
Nadine Gordimer

Adam Lindsay Gordon

Catherine Gore

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Eldon Gorst, Sir

Edmund Gosse

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Francisco Goya

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

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

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Alasdair Gray

Thomas Gray

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

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Henry Green

Julian Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Germaine Greer

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Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
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History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
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Richard Wright (1908-1960)
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