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Peter Abelard

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Pamela Aidan

Boris Akunin

Louisa May Alcott

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

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Anonymous

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Achim Von Arnim

Painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling (1805)
Madalyn Aslan

Louis Auchincloss

photo by Tom Cogill from Cullen Couch's 2005 article at
UVA Lawyer Hartmann Von Aue

Portrait of Hartmann von Aue from the Codex Manesse
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.
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
J. M. Barrie

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Samuel Beckett

Hilaire Belloc

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

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Arnold Bennett

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

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Ray Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Anne Brontë

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
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Raymond Buckland

Pearl S Buck

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
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)
Lewis Carroll

Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Cicero

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Lucille Clifton

Paulo Coelho

Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Patricia Cornwell

Liza Crihfield Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
David Damrosch

Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

George Eliot

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

Maria Amparo Escandon

Photo Courtesy of Gina Ruiz
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
William Faulkner

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

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Orlando Figes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ford Maddox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
De La Motte-Fouque

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Charles Frazier

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
John Gay

William Gibson

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

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

Drawing by Theodor Hildebrandt (1832)
Robert Greene

From Greene in Conceipt by John Dickenson, 1598.
Grillparzer Franz

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 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.)
Andreas Gryphius

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

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
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)
Lauren Henderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Johann Gottfried Herder

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

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

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Ibsen Henrik

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Jerome K. Jerome

Diane Johnson

James Joyce

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

John Keats

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Anna Kirwan

Heinrich Kleist

Karleen Koen

Joan Boote
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Peirre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

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

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
David Liss

Norah Lofts

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Martin Luther

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bobbie Ann Mason

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Kasey Michaels

Kasey Michaels website
Calvin Miller

John Milton

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
St. Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Signage outside the recently closed store at 600 Fifth Avenue, New York, taken by Lampbane
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Emmuska Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Robert B. Parker

Marisha Pessl

Victoria Holt

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

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Katherine Anne Porter

Alexandra Potter

Author photo by Kelly Potti
Thomas Pynchon

Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Edogawa Rampo

Ayn Rand

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

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Newt Scamander

Miguel de Cervantes

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

"Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905), Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Seite 59
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Karl Jay Shapiro

Papers of Karl Shapiro, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries
Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Sophocles

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Adalbert Stifter

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alfred Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ludwig Tieck

J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Various

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Wilhelm Heinrich Und Ludwig Tieck Wackenroder

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
William Walton

John Burlinson.
Emma Campbell Webster

Sara Dunn
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith 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)
Lauren Willig

courtesy www.laurenwillig.com
Bill Willingham

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wycherley

Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
Felix Youssoupoff

Wikipedia
Émile Zola

Wikipédia France
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