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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Lloyd Alexander

Horatio Jr. Alger

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
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Anselm

K.A. Applegate

Heli12
Aristotle

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J. M. Barrie

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Brian Michael Bendis

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
David Bodanis

Ray Bradbury

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
Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

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

Lewis Carroll

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Nicolaus Copernicus

Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)
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)

Richard Dawkins

Charles (Editor-in-chief) Dennee

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

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Reader's Digest

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

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

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Alexandre Dumas père

Ralph Ellison

Sylvia Engdahl

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Euclid

Engraved image of Euclid
Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
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

Eric Flint

William R. Forstchen

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Johann Joseph Fux

From Wikimedia Commons
Neil Gaiman

William Golding

Brothers 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.)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
William Harvey

Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library,
University of Kansas Medical Center
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Jennifer Hecht

Jean Jenesque (Wikipedia)

Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Homer

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Brian Jacques

James Joyce

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

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

Steven E. Landsburg

Author
Antoine Lavoisier

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
C. S. Lewis

H. G. Liddell

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Titus Livy

from Wikipedia
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
Lucretius

Robert Ludlum

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Moses Maimonides

James Marshall

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
James Clerk Maxwell

Engraving by G. J. Stodard from a photograph by Fergus of Glasgow, reproduced in "Britain's Heritage of Science" by Arthur Shuster and Arthur Shipley (1917)
Anne McCaffrey


Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Bill Moyers

Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Edith Nesbit
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.

George Orwell

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
Dave Pelzer

Tamora Pierce

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Plato

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

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Chaim Potok

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

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

Ayn Rand

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

Eye on Books
J. K. Rowling

Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

J. D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Walter Scott

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

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 Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Sophocles

John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Tacitus

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tsu

Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Virgil

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

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
E. B. White

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

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Jane Yolen

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Lisbeth Zwerger

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