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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Poppy Adams

Rob Sturges
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
James Agee

Louisa May Alcott

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

Robert Alexander

Jorge Amado

Kingsley Amis

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

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

Library of Congress
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Darnell Arnoult

Photograph by Lou Carter
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson


Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

Charles Baxter

Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Georges Bernanos

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Wendell Berry

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Dave Boling

Ray Bradbury

Alan Brennert

Photo: Monica Schwartz
Louis Bromfield

Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1933
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)
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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Lewis Buzbee

A S BYATT

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Andrea Camilleri

Orson Scott Card

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Gary D. Chapman

John Cheever

G.K. Chesterton

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

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Joan Clark

Ned Pratt
Meg Waite Clayton

photo by McCord Clayton
Roxanne J. Coady

Courtesy of R. J. Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT

Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Teri Coyne

Michael J. Richter
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
James Dashner

Harold Lenoir Davis

Grazia Deledda

from Wikimedia Commons
Tomie dePaola

Kiran Desai

Donald B. Deyoung

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.)
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

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

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

Photo Courtesy of Bethany House Publishers
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Alexandre Dumas père

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Kim Edwards

George Eliot

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard Paul Evans

Eye on Books
Oliver La Farge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958
William Faulkner

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

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

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
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
Gustave Flaubert

Martin Flavin

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117686
Jamie Ford

Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Charles Frazier

Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Rivka Galchen

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jane Gardam

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Rick Geary

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ellen Glasgow

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Nadine Gordimer

Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Graham Greene

John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

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

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Olga Grushin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

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

Cathy Haruf
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Shirley Hazzard

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
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)
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Homer Hickam

courtesy of Homer Hickam
Oscar Hijuelos

James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Silas House

Photo by Cheyenne House
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Hillary Jordan

Photo by William Coupon
Morag Joss

Jerry Bauer
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Eugenia Kim

Courtesy E. Kim
Stephen King

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

Ivan Klima

Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan Kundera

Aryn Kyle

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Nikita Lalwani

credit: Vik Sharma
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Halldor Laxness

Stephen Leacock

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

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Harper Lee

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

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Mikhail Lermontov

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival

C. S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
George MacDonald

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.)
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
John P. Marquand

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

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Daphne du Maurier

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Geraldine McCaughrean

Ian Mcewan

Eamonn McCabe
John Mcgahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
James A. Michener

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

Jaci Gresham, October 11, 2006
Steven Millhauser

A. A. Milne

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

Zondervan
Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Christopher Morley

Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Donna Jo Napoli

Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Amelie Nothomb

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Scott O'Dell

Kenzaburo Oë

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Linda Sue Park

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Susan Patron

Octavio Paz

Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Ridley Pearson

Stef Penney

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sylvia Plath

Plutarch

Marco Polo

Ernest Poole

Katherine Anne Porter

Chaim Potok

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
DK Publishing

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

Jamie Pullman
Jayne Pupek

photo by R.D. Pupek
Thomas De Quincey

Anna Quindlen

Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Laura Restrepo

Photo © Carlos Duque

Marilynne Robinson

J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Gabrielle Roy

Bank of Canada
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Marisa de los Santos

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Laura Amy Schlitz

Joe Rubino
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Lionel Shriver

Joan Silber

Joan Silber (center) at the post-ceremony
reception at 3rd annual Story Prize
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganUpton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Betty Smith

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

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Dana Spiotta

Jean Stafford

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
Leah Stewart

Photo by Carolyn Ebbitt
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
David Storey

Jeremy Keith
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sarah Stewart Taylor

Photo by Jennifer Hauck
Craig Thompson

By Greg Preston
J.R.R. Tolkien


Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Miguel de Unamuno

from wikipedia
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Lara Vapnyar

(c) Sigrid Estrada
Salley Vickers

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Horace Walpole

Walter Wangerin

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from 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)
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Tim Winton

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

Yuma
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Zafon

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ludmila Zeman

Linda Spaleny
Paul Zindel

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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