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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Louisa May Alcott

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

Jean B. Arban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arban.jpg
National Gallery of Art.

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

©Rowena
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

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

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh website
Pio Baroja

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Daniel Carter Beard

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

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-08277)
(cropped)
Judy Blume

Martha Bolton

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.)
Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)
Ray Bradbury

Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Jan Brett

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
Lora Brody

Bob Four
Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browning

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

Eye on Books
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
John Le Carre

Bernal Diaz

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Bruce Catton

Mary Ellen Chase

Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Hayward Cirker

Dover Publications
Tom Clancy

Vicki Cobb

Joanna Cole

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry Steel Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJoseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Lettres d’un cultivateur américain, Paris : Cuchet, 1784.
American National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
Drew Curtis

Clive Cussler

Jr. Dana, Richard Henry

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Keith R. A. DeCandido

http://www.startrekdb.se/litteratur/litteratur.php?forfattare=28
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily (Johnson Dickenson, Thomas H. Editor)

Wikipedia
William C. Dietz

Editors of Readers Digest

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

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas pere

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Dave Wolverton

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding, 1707-1754

wikipedia
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Paul Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Abe Fortas

Wikipedia (LBJ Library Collection)
Jeff Foxworthy

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJohn Lewis Gaddis

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Benito Perez Galdos

Romulo Gallegos

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Jose Ortega y Gassett

Erving Goffman

American Sociological Association
William Goldman

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

Russell Busby
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Graham Greene

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Martha Grimes

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
Katie Hafner

Photo by Deborah Wise Unger
David Halberstam

Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Alexander Hamilton

Dag Hammarskjold

UN/DPI
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Harpercollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
F. A. Hayek

Robert A. Heinlein

Tony Hillerman

E.D. Jr Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Jane Hitchcock

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
1899-1963 Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo by Tom E. Canavan
Brian Jacques

David Joachim

Kurt Wilson
Todd Johnson

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.)
James Joyce

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

Jon Katz

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Hank Ketcham

Inkpot Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

George Lyman Kittredge

Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Richard A. Knaak

Courtesy of Richard A. Knaak
Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Headquarters in Rochester, New York; photo by Jeffrey Hsu
Christopher Kraft

nasa.gov
Gene Kranz

nix.ksc.nasa.gov
Maria Langer

Photo courtesy of the Author
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Steven Levy

Abraham Lincoln

Robert Llewellyn

Wikipedia author Jmath666
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Niccolo Machiavelli

Debbie Macomber

Twenty Wishes book signing, onyx95
Alfred Thayer Mahan

c1904, Library of Congress
N. Gregory Mankiw

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Frank McCourt

Norman A. Meinkoth

Swarthmore College.
GOLDA MEIR

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
James A. Michener

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

John Hall Photography
A. A. Milne

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

L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
John Mortimer

Joan Nathan

© 2005 Linda Spillers
Pablo Neruda

John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Helen Nicholson

Dr Nicholson (Cardiff) at Skenfrith Castle
Scott O'Dell

Michael Okuda

Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
James Patterson

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Elizabeth Phillips webpage photo cropped
Jan Pienkowski

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Nintendo Power

Nintendo of America Corporate Headquarters, July 2004, by Lampbane
Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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

Jamie Pullman
Francisco de Quevedo

Painting, copy of a lost work by Velazquez
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Piers Paul Read

Emilie Richards

Samuel Richardson

Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
John J. Robinson

http://www.msana.com/jrobinson.asp
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Juan Rulfo

Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jean-Paul Sartre

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Solomon Schechter

Jr. - Arthur M. Schlesinger

From Wikipedia.com
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
E. F Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Robert J Serling

Robert J. Serling
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Adam Smith

Deborah Smith

Hank Smith
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Smithsonian Institution

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
National Geographic Society

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frederick William Baron von Steuben

Painting by Ralph Earl (Wikimedia Commons)
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jovial Bob Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Kazuki Takahashi

William Makepeace; Pritchett-Afterword Thackeray, V.S.

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Time-Life

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
J.R.R. Tolkien

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Miguel De Unamuno

from wikipedia
U.S. Government Printing Office

Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Various

Various Composers

Thorstein Veblen

Wikipedia
Lope De Vega

Eugenio Caxés (1577- 1642)
Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI meeting with Richard Nixon at the Vatican, 29 Sep. 1970. Photo by Robert L. Knudsen. From the National Archives via pingnews at Flickr.
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jill Paton Walsh

I. Walton

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

Rick Warren
George Washington

JESSAMYN WEST

from Wikipedia
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E.B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Amanda Young

Howard. Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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