Mark Twain, George Townsend, David Gray, portrait
Mark Twain, US author
Mark Twain & Dorothy Quick
Portrait of Mark Twain
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer
Herbert George Wells, British author
Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828-89), Russian Socialist, Writer and Philosopher, Head and Shoulders Portrait
J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist
Edmund William Gosse.
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
William Godwin, English journalist and philosopher
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), German Writer, Philosopher, Dramatist, Publicist and Art Critic, Engraving, 1873
Henry Mayhew.
Ida Tarbell, American writer and investigative journalist
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Essayist, Lecturer, Poet and Leader of the Transcendentalist Movement, head and shoulders Portrait, Frederick Gutekunst, 1875
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American Novelist and Writer, seated Portrait, Mathew Brady Studio, early 1860's
Alice Brown, US author
Camille Flammarion, French astronomer
Richard Harding Davis.
William Godwin.
John Galt.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain (1835-1910), Half-length Portrait, Jeremiah Gurney, 1873
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American Poet, half-length seated Portrait, G. Frank E. Pearsall, 1872
Jack London.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Bernard Gotfryd, 1967
Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, aboard the Bermudian after Trip to Bermuda, New York City, New York, USA, George Grantham Bain Collection, December 20, 1909
Denis Davydov (1784-1839), Russian Soldier and Poet, Famed Guerilla Leader against Napoleon's Forces during 1812 Invasion of Russia, Lithograph
Lillian Parker Thomas, African American Journalist, Cabinet Card, Giers & Koellein, Nashville, Tenn., William Henry Richards Collection, 1890
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
French surrealist poets, historical image
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
H. Rider Haggard, British author
Maurice Barres, French writer
Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-61), Russian Literary Critic, Journalist and Poet, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving
Photograph of Langston Hughes, 1940
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German Poet, Philosopher, Historian, and Playwright, Portrait, E.H. Schroeder, Berlin, 1793
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92), American Quaker Poet and Abolitionist, Portrait, Sarony & Co., 1870
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish Historical Novelist, Playwright and Poet, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Etching by H.B. Hall, 1876
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish Poet, Songwriter and Entertainer, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by H.B. Hall & Sons, 1876
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
Walt Whitman (1819-92), American Poet, Seated Portrait with Two Children, 1887
W. (William) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British Author and Playwright, Head and Shoulders Portrait by Arnold Genthe, 1925
Paul Bourget
Marjorie Van de Water, US journalist
Aldous Huxley, British writer and novelist
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), French Poet and Critic, Head and Shoulders Engraving
Manuel Jose Quintana.
Alphonse Daudet.
Anna Maria Hall.
Thomas Gray.
Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane, US child poet and novelist
Johann Wolfgang.
Oliver Goldsmith 'She Stoops to Conquer'.
Charles John Huffam Dickens
Rudyard Kipling, British poet and author
Charles Dickens, British author
Baden-Powell with US scouting pioneers
George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch, designed by T.H. Matteson, Engraved by Charles Burt, N.Y., 1840's
Phillis Wheatley, African American author
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American Humanist, Novelist, writer of Short Stories, Poetry and Nonfiction, and a lecturer for Social Reform, Seated Portrait, Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1900
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), American Poet and Educator, Portrait, circa 1882
James Russell Lowell (1819-91), American Poet, Portrait
Henry James (1843-1916), American Author, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Alice Boughton, 1916
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author and abolitionist, full-length Portrait, Silsbee Case & Company, 1860
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author and abolitionist, full-length Portrait, Charles DeForest Fredricks, mid-late 19th century
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author and abolitionist, full-length Portrait, 1865
Benjamin Gould, US astronomer
Saint Cecilia (2nd Century AD), Christian Martyr and Patroness of Musicians, Engraving by Cook after G. Staal, 1858
Frederika Vern Blankner, American poet and scholar
Walt Whitman
Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author
Charles Darwin
Lord Salisbury.
Gladstone.
Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist
Alice Liddell portrait by Lewis Carroll, 1858
Daniel Defoe.
Charles Theveneau de Morande, (1741-1805), Journalist and French Spy, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Author Johann Heinrich Merck
Jules Verne commemorative postcard
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
John Campbell(1653-1728), Scottish-American Editor and Founder of First Successfully Established Paper in America, Boston News-Letter, Engraving
Georges Bernanos.
Truman Capote (1924-1984), American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Actor, Head and Shoulders Portrait, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Truman Capote (1924-1984), American Novelist, Screenwriter, Playwright and Actor, three-quarter length Portrait, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1948
Mary Putnam Jacobi, American physician
Bayard Taylor (1825-78), American Poet, Literary Critic, Travel Author and Diplomat, Portrait, Sarony & Co., 1871
Oscar Wilde.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet.
Allan Cunningham.
James Hogg.
David Brewster, Scottish physicist
Pauline Gracia Beery Mack, US chemist
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
William Jerdan.
Heloise, French Nun, Writer and Scholar, Best Known for her Love Affair with Peter Abelard, Portrait, mid-19th Century Engraving
Playwright Clifford Odets
English Poet John Dryden
Edmond Rostand.
Margaret Moore Kennedy, English novelist and playwright
James Gordon Bennett
Nellie Bly, American journalist
National Geographic and explorers, 1925
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Bernard Gotfryd, 1975
Joseph Conrad.
John Galsworthy.
Ben Jonson.
Jane Stafford, US medical writer and chemist
Marjorie MacDill Breit, US journalist
Lady Mount Cashell, Irish writer
Ida Pfeiffer, Austrian author and traveller
Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-50), American Journalist, Critic and Women's Rights Activist, Engraving from the original painting by Alonzo Chappel, 1972
Marjorie Van de Water, US science writer
George MacCurdy at anthropology symposium, 1937
Lewis Boss, US astronomer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Garrett Serviss, US science writer
Karl Kelchner Darrow, American physicist
Jane Austen, English novelist
Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859-1941), African American Educator and Author, Half-Length Portrait, Tintype Photograph, 1870's
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Francois de Chateaubriand, French writer
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851), French Artist and Photographer, Recognized for his invention of the Daguerreotype Process of Photography, Chez Aubert gal Vere Dodat, Imp d'Aubert & Cie., Galerie de la Presse, de la Litterature & des Beaux-Arts,
Antarctic expedition newspaper, 1911
Charlotte Bronte, English novelist
Jules Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon' (1865)
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-81), American Novelist and Poet who wrote under the Pseudonym Timothy Titcomb, Etching by H.B. Hall, 1876
Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American Essayist, Poet and Journalist and Novelist, which included writing the Novels The Trojan Horse and Kitty Foyle, Head and Shoulders Portrait with Pipe, 1930's
Charles Darwin's signature, 1859
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Fritz Reuter, German novelist
Mary Smith Griffith, gardening author
Patricia McBroom, US journalist and anthropologist
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Portrait, Bain News Service, February 1930
Henry James, American Novelist, Portrait, Bain News Service, 1910
Occultist Aleister Crowley
James Russell Lowell.
HJ Palmer
Theophile Gautier
Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas, 1893
Close up of a retro typewriter
Edward S. Ayensu, Ghanian scientist and economist
Ted Shawn (1891-1972), one of first Male Pioneers of American Modern Dance, full-length nude Portrait, Edwin F. Townsend, 1925
George Clemenceau
Anders Emanuel
Edward Gibbon, English historian
Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston, Jan 17th 1706, -- died in Philadelphia, April 17th 1790, Painted by T.H. Matteson, Esqr., Engraved by Henry S. Sadd, Printed by J. Neale, 1846
England: 1923 Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the noted Sherlock Holmes series writing at his desk.
T. S. Eliot.
Walter John de la Mare.
George Monbiot at Climate Strike protest, 2018
Karl Marx, German political theorist
Elisee Reclus, French geographer
Samuel Wilks, British physician
Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet and scholar
George Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer
George Pullman, US industrialist
Henry Stanley, Anglo-American explorer
Painting titled "Metamorphosis of Narcissus" by Salvador Dali dated 1937
David Livingstone (1813-73), Scottish Missionary and Explorer, Portrait
George Cruikshank, British caricaturist
Alexander Scherer, German chemist
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Faye Marley, US medical writer
United States: c. 1933 German author and playwright Leon Feuchtwanger.
Livingston Farrand, US anthropologist
Boccaccio
Robert Louis Stevenson and family
Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-US engineer
John Carty, US engineer
Haynes with his 1894 Pioneer
European surrealists, historical image