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Forrest J. Ackerman

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Douglas Adams

Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
James Agee

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous


Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Neil Armstrong

Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin
nix.larc.nasa.gov
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Stephen T. Asma

Sean Astin

Sean Astin and family (Stefan Servos, 2003).
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Julian Baggini

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan
Robert T. Bakker

From Wikipedia
Michael Balter

Photographed by Emma Balter
Honore De Balzac

Wikipédia France
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Stephen Batchelor

Ernest Becker

Michael J. Behe

Courtesy of Michael Behe.
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Benson Bobrick

Lois Wadler
Leonardo Boff

Credit: Hermínio Oliveira/Agência Brasil, 2003
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Gregory A. Boyd

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.)
Ray Bradbury

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Max Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Mick Brown

Philip Hollis

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
James Burke

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Kurt Busiek

Photo by khaosworks
William H. Calvin

James Cameron

Credit: Towpilot (Wikipedia), Sept. 1986
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Fritjof Capra

Orson Scott Card

Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Lewis Carroll

Howard Carter

Paul Carter

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Bruce Catton

Eugene Cernan

Photo created by NASA
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Whittaker Chambers

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-114739)
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1958 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121944)
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Diablo Cody

Francis Collins

Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Aaron Copland

Wikipedia Commons.
John Cornwell

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Gregory Curtis

Photo © 2006 Wyatt McSpadden
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
William A. Dembski

Photo by Wesley R. Elsberry.
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
August William Derleth

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gustave Dore

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
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Gerald Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Einstein

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

T. S. Eliot

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Anne Catherine Emmerich

M.C. Escher

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
John Farris

Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Paul Feyerabend

Photo credit: Grazzia Borrini-Feyerabend
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Shelby Foote

Richard Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Charles Frazier

James Frey

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
Neil Gaiman

Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Kahlil Gibran

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

JaSunni
Terry Gilliam

Sweden, March 1985,
promoting 'Brazi"
(Credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Christopher Golden

Glen David Gold

William Golding

Al Gore

Wikipedia
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
John Gray

Samuel B. Griffith

Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith, II, USMC (retired).
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Dean H. Hamer

Source: website of the National Institutes of Health, where he is current Chief of the Section on Gene Structure and Regulation, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute
Alexander Hamilton

Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
James R. Hansen

Photo by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrer

Robert Harris

Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Ray Harryhausen

San Diego Comic-Con 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganMatthew Hart

Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Jennifer Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)
Chris Hedges

Robert A. Heinlein

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)
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.
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
Homer Hickam

courtesy of Homer Hickam
James Hilton

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

Burne Hogarth

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
Homer

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert Howard

Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
A.J. Jacobs

Jane Jacobs

Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
John Jakes

Henry James

Wikipedia
William James

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

John Burlinson
Philip Jenkins

Courtesy of Philip Jenkins
Peter Jennings

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Martin Jones

James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
C. G. Jung

Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Franz Kafka

William Kamkwamba

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Diana Kennedy

Jack Kerouac

Raymond Khoury

Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Jerzy Kosinski

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
Marcel Kuijsten

Hans Kung

Wikimedia Commons
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
George Lakoff

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Jerome Lawrence

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
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
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
Michael Light

David J. Linden

John Burlinson, Oct. 14, 2007
Jerry M. Linenger

Photo created by NASA
John Long

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Jim Lovell

Photo created by NASA
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Niccolo Machiavelli

Natalie MacLean

Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Adrienne Mayor

M. Maskiell
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Alister Mcgrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

James A. Michener

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

Columbia University
Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
John Milton

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
W. J. T. Mitchell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Brent Monahan

Brent Monahan
by Caitlin Monahan
Chris Mooney

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
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)
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Mike Mullane

Wikimedia Commons (Photo created by NASA)
Eadweard Muybridge

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, circa 1890-1910
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-33083)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Andrew Md Newberg

Photograph by Norman Levinson
Sir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Kathleen Norris

Novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection
(cropped)
Michel Onfray

Bill O'Reilly

Chris McCann
George Orwell

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

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.
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Ridley Pearson

Kevin Phillips

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Philip C. Plait

ensceptico
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Jerry Pournelle

Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Heather Pringle

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
Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
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

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
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
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
James M. Robinson

Norman Rockwell

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J.K. Rowling

Bertrand Russell

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

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert

Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

Brandon Sanderson

Mari Sandoz

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean P. Sasson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jerry Schad

Photo courtesy of Jerry Schad
Wally Schirra

nasa.gov
Peter Schweizer

peterschweizer.com
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Alan Shepard

nix.ksc.nasa.gov

Michael Shermer

Nevil Shute

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

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Dave Sim

From Wikipedia
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Kathryn Smith

Sarah Kolej
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
National Geographic Book Service

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
John Shelby Spong

Photo by Scott Griessel / Flickr.
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
Rodney Stark

courtesy of Prof. Rodney Stark
Wallace Stegner


John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Rebecca Stott

Whitley Strieber

Lee Strobel

Leonard Susskind

Wikipedia
James L. Swanson

Library of Congress
Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney and Jill Sobule (Credit: Pierre Omidyar/Flickr)
James D. Tabor

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Kazuaki Tanahashi

Photo by ottmarliebert.com / Flickr.
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Robert A. F. Thurman

Photo by Tenzin Nyima
Alexis De Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Jeffrey Toobin

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Samrat Upadhyay

Courtesy of Indiana University
Robert M. Utley

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Boris Vallejo

From wikimedia commons
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Henry Wansbrough

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Steven Watts

Sherrie Goettsch
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Orson Welles

Description: Orson Welles, March 1, 1937
Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-119765
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Tennessee Williams

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

I took this photo!
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
David Sloan Wilson

Photo by user Gwern / English Wikipedia
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Ian Wilson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Bob Woodward

Fareed Zakaria

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Oct. 30, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
Robert Zimmerman

Photo by Debra Liberman
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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