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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Patch Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Madeleine Albright

from Wikipedia
Louisa May Alcott

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

Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
David Alexander (Editor)

copyright David Alexander
Sherman Alexie

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
James Lane Allen

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

Stephen E. Ambrose

H. C Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

National Park Service
Piers Anthony

K.A. Applegate

Heli12
Hannah Arendt

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Stephen Arterburn

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.)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena

David Athey

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Christina Baldwin

Anjali Banerjee

Photograph by Carol Ann Morris
Melissa Bank

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Cicely Mary Barker

Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Gregory Benford

Arnold Bennett

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

Eye on Books
Henri Bergson

George Berkeley

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Photo by David M. Lobenstine
Shirley Temple Black

Terri Blackstock

Robert Neumann, courtesy of Zondervan.
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Judy Blume

W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Edward De Bono

Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Ben (Editor) Bova

Ray Bradbury

Marie Brennan

Perry Reighandter
Laura Brodie

Photo by Fran Fevrier
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)
Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
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
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

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

John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
Alan Burnett

DC Animation panel, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Frederick Busch

Eye on Books
Octavia E Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Julius Caesar

public domain
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Truman Capote

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

Orson Scott Card

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Iris Chang

Jackie Chan

U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class
Lee M. McCaskill, Dec. 2, 2002
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Chekhov

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

C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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

Sigrid Estrada
Agatha Christie

Tom Clancy

Carol Higgins Clark

Photographed by Herman Estevez
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Richard Cohen

British Veterens Fencing
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
Patricia Cornwell

Microsoft

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
Jack Countryman

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
Abraham Cowley (Translator)

Source: "International monthly magazine
of literature, art and science"
v.5, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1852)
(Project Gutenberg)
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Francis Crick

Red Cross.

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

David Crystal

Clive Cussler

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)
Rosie Daley

Antonio R. Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Charles Darwin

Lithograph - Karl Klietsch / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienPaul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Tomie dePaola

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
J. M. Dillard

Ernest Dimnet

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-36336)
(cropped)
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
James C. Dobson

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.)
Norman Doidge

John Donne

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

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

from Wikipedia
Christopher Doyle

Credit: Jan van der Crabben, London, 2005
Gardner (Editor) Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Pierre Dubois

Photo by user Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Will Durant

Mona Van Duyn

Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bob Dylan

Reader's Digest editors

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

from Wikipedia
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
T. S. Eliot

Claudia Emerson

Church Pension Fund

Washington National Cathedral. Photo by user AgnosticPreachersKid / Wikimedia Commons
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Eleanor Estes

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

Christopher Jones
Linda Fairstein

Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Philip José Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Edna Ferber

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

Janet Fitch

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
Gillian Flynn

Sam Walter Foss

Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
Library of Congress).
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Richard J. Foster

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox with wife Tracy Pollen,
1988, 40th Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
John M. Frame

Dr John Frame
Anatole France

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

Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Viktor E. Frankl

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Henry Louis Gates

Shakti Gawain

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Norman L. Geisler

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.)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Nikki Giovanni

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Gail Godwin

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Goldman

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

Wikipedia
Lynn Grabhorn

Ed Fitzgerald
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Billy Graham

Russell Busby
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Martha Grimes

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Matt Groening (Editor)

Gage Skidmore
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. LeGuin

Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Graham Haley

Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Edith Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Judith Hann

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Frederic Harrison

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Carolyn G. Hart

Library of Congress
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
O'Henry

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

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
Nick Herbert

Echo Heron

Author photo courtesy of echoheron.com.
Robert Herrick

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
John (Editor) Higham

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Ingrid Hill


Jim C. Hines

Photo by Gabriel Edson
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Alfred. Hitchcock (Editor)

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
David Huddle

Photo by Chip Riegel
W. H Hudson

wikipedia.org
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
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
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Shirley Jackson

Helen Hull Jacobs

Helen Jacobs with trainer Bill Tilden in Melbury Club, London (11 May 1939) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienBrian Jacques

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksKay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
J.A. Jance

Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Ji-li Jiang

Iris Johansen

Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Kalidasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Henry B. Kane

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

Photography by Ed Anderson
Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Thomas a Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Authorized King James Version

King James I of England, watercolor by Nicholas Hilliard.
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Karen Kingston

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Mary Kinzie

Star Black
Rudyard Kipling

Daniel Klein

John Burlinson, 9/21/08
Kooler Design Studio

Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Hans Küng

Wikimedia Commons
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Ellen Langer

Robert Scoble
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Harper Lee

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

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
John Levine

Photo © Esther Dyson
Beverly Lewis

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.)
C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Lin Yutang

Library of Congress
Florence Littauer

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.)
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Max Lucado

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Adeline Yen Mah

Bill Maher

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Marilyn Manson

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Lee Martin

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Jean Marzollo

Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Alice Mathews

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.)
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Peter May

domi photographe
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Frank McCourt

Sharyn McCrumb

Carson McCullers

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Patricia A. Mckillip

Adrianna Dane
Rod. McKuen

McKuen with Grete Keller: Image ©
ÖNB/WienTerry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Rand McNally

John McWhorter

Brad Meltzer

Fern Michaels

John Michell

John Michell
James A. Michener

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

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

Anchee Min

Rohinton Mistry

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Philip D. Morehead

Wikipedia
Robert Morgan

The crew of the Memphis Belle after their 25th mission: (l to r) Tech. Sgt. Loch, Staff Sgt. Scott, Tech. Sgt. Hanson, Capt. Verinis, Capt. Morgan, Capt. Evans, Staff Sgt. Quinlan, Staff Sgt. Nastal, Capt. Leighton and Staff Sgt. Winchell. (USAF photo)
Patrick M. Morley

Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Kate Mosse

Bill Moyers

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Marina Nemat

Andrew Newberg

Photograph by Norman Levinson
Leslea Newman

Photo by Mary Vasquez
Sharan Newman

Whitney Hall
The New York Public Library Project

New York Public Library (Humanites and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) Photo by
djmutex, June 16, 2003
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stephen B Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Tawni O'Dell

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Rosie O'Donnell

Photo by Jason Chatting (Cropped/Wikipeda & Flickr)
Kenzaburo Oe

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Janette Oke

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.)
George Orwell

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

Alicia Suskin Ostriker (1937- )
Alicia Ostriker howling: remembering Allen Ginsberg.
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Malika Oufkir

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ovid

David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Katherine Hall Page

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Joshua Palmatier

Sara Paretsky

Gordon Parks

Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Dave Pelzer

Stef Penney

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Pepys

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

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Victoria Holt

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

Plato

Roman copy after Greek original by Silanion, 2nd cent.
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2007
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
David Pogue

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
J. C. Polkinghorne

Rachel Pollack

Chaim Potok

Jerry Pournelle

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Annie Proulx

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

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Thomas Pynchon

Anna Quindlen

Pope Benedict XVI

Wikipedia
Christopher Reeve

Photo taken by Walt Grogan
Kathy Reichs

Mary Renault

Mike Resnick

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienAnthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins, life coach and speaker
Credit: Steve Jurvetson, 2006
Tom Robbins

Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Merce Rodoreda

Borja Vilallonga (1997).
Michael F. Roizen

RealAge.
Daniel Asa Rose

John Goodman
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Arundhati Roy

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Miguel De Cervantes

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Juan de Jáuregui.
Via
WikipediaOliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J.D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117536)
John Saul

Francis Schaeffer

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