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| Abbey, Edward |
| Alcabes, Philip: Francesca Mirabella |
| Alexie, Sherman: Larry D. Moore/Wikimedia Commons |
| Angelou, Maya |
| Anzaldúa, Gloria: K. Kendall/Wikimedia Commons |
| Arendt, Hannah: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Asimov, Isaac: LOC/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Bacon, Francis: John Vanderbank/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Baker, Nicholson |
| Baldwin, James: MDCarchives/Wikimedia Commons |
| Balmer, Randall |
| Baron, Dennis |
| Barthes, Roland |
| Bierce, Ambrose: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Bird, Caroline |
| Blake, William: Thomas Phillips |
| Bronowski, Dr. Jacob |
| Brooks, David: LOC/Wikimedia Commons |
| Bruffee, Kenneth |
| Burgess, Anthony |
| Buzzell, Colby |
| Carr, Nicholas |
| Carson, Rachel: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Wikimedia Commons |
| Carter, Stephen |
| Chabon, Michael |
| Cofer, Judith Ortiz |
| Copland, Aaron: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Cronon, William |
| Cunningham, Amy: Courtesy of Amy Cunningham |
| Dickerson, Debra |
| Didion, Joan |
| Dillard, Annie |
| Dirda, Michael: Larry D. Moore/Wikimedia Commons |
| Donne, John: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Doty, Mark: Courtesy of Mark Doty/ blueflowerarts.com |
| Douglass, Frederick: George K. Warren/National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons |
| Dove, Rita |
| Doyle, Brian: Jerry Hart |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara |
| Eighner, Lars: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Emerson: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Ephron, Nora |
| Fadiman, Anne: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Faulkner, William: Carl Van Vechten/LOC/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Fisher, M.F.K. |
| Fitzgerald, Frances: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Franklin, Benjamin: Joseph-Siffred Duplessis/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Franklin, H. Bruce |
| Franklin, Joey: Courtesy of Joey Franklin |
| Frazier, Ian: Larry D. Moore/Wikimedia Commons |
| Friedman, Thomas: Charles Haynes/Wikimedia Commons |
| Frye, Northrop: Victoria University Library (Toronto) |
| Fussell, Paul: U.S. Army/Wikimedia Commons |
| Gates, Henry Louis |
| Gawande, Atul |
| Gladwell, Malcolm: Kris Krüg/Wikimedia Commons |
| Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla |
| Goode, J.J.: Courtesy of J.J. Goode |
| Goodheart, Adam: © JIM GRAHAM 2011 |
| Goodman, Allegra: Nina Subin/Courtesy of Allegra Goodman |
| Gore, Al: White House/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Gould, Stephen Jay |
| Gourevitch, Philip: Andrew Brucker/Courtesy of Philip Gourevitch/Wikimedia Commons |
| Guterson, David |
| Hawking, Stephen |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
| Hitt, Jack: Courtesy of Jack Hitt |
| Holt, John |
| Hughes, Langston: Public Domain/LOC |
| Hurston, Zora Neale: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Ivins, Molly |
| Jefferson, Thomas and Others: White House Historical Association/Wikimedia Commons |
| Jesus: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Johnson, Samuel: University of Texas Libraries Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia Commons |
| Jonson, Ben: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Keillor, Garrison: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News/Landov/Wikimedia Commons |
| Kennedy, John F.: WHPO/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Kincaid, Jamaica |
| King, Martin Luther Jr.: LOC/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| King, Stephen |
| Kingston, Maxine Hong |
| Konner, Melvin |
| Kozol, Jonathan |
| Kristof, Nicholas D. |
| Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth |
| Kuhn, Thomas S. |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
| Lamb, Charles: Henry Hopper Meyer/Wikimedia Commons |
| Lee, Chang-Rae |
| Levin, Michael |
| Lincoln, Abraham: LOC/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Mairs, Nancy: Fotosmith |
| Manguel, Alberto |
| Mattheissen, Peter |
| McCloud, Scott: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| McKibben, Bill |
| McPhee, John: Office of Communications, Princeton University/Wikimedia Commons |
| McPherson, James M. |
| McWhorter, John Hamilton |
| Mitford, Jessica |
| Momaday, N. Scott |
| Morrison, Toni: Angela Radulescu/Wikimedia Commons |
| Muir, John: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Nabokov, Vladimir |
| Naylor, Gloria |
| Obama, Barack: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Oliver, Mary |
| Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence: National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons |
| Orwell, George: BNUJ/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Parables, Zen: Wikimedia Commons |
| Petroski, Henry |
| Pilardi, Jo-Ann |
| Pinker, Steven |
| Plath, Sylvia |
| Plato: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Pollan, Michael: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Quindlen, Anna |
| Rauch, Jonathan |
| Regan, Tom: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Rich, Adrienne |
| Rios, Alberto Alvaro |
| Rodriguez, Richard |
| Rollin, Betty |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor: LOC/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Rose, Mike: Courtesy of Mike Rose |
| Sanders, Scott Russell: Steven L. Raymer |
| Saner, Reg: Patty Roper |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul |
| Seattle, Chief: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Singer, Peter: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Sinor, Jennifer |
| Smiley, Jane |
| Solnit, Rebecca |
| Sontag, Susan |
| Stanton, Elizabeth Cady |
| Staples, Brent |
| Steinem, Gloria: Warren K. Leffler/LOC/Wikimedia Commons |
| Steingraber, Sandra: Dede Hatch |
| Strebeigh, Fred: Courtesy of Fred Strebeigh |
| Sullivan, Andrew |
| Swift, Jonathan: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Theroux, Paul |
| Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa |
| Tholen, James van |
| Thomas, Lewis |
| Thoreau, Henry David: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Tisdale, Sallie |
| Toth, Susan Allen |
| Tuchman, Barbara |
| Twain, Mark: A. F. Bradley/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher |
| Walker, Alice: Virginia DeBolt/Wikimedia Commons |
| Wallace, David Foster |
| Wechsler, Henry |
| Weinberg, Steven |
| Weingarten, Gene |
| Welty, Eudora: Billy Hathorn/National Portrait Gallery/Public Domain |
| White, E.B.: White Literary LLC/Wikimedia Commons |
| Whitman, Walt: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Williams, Patricia: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons |
| Williams, Terry Tempest: Mark Babushkin/Courtesy of Terry Tempest Williams/CoyoteClan.com |
| Wilson, Edward O. |
| Wolfe, Tom |
| Wollstonecraft, Mary: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Woolf, Virginia: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons |
| Zinsser, William |