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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Poppy Adams

Rob Sturges
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
W H Ainsworth

Project Gutenberg
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa M Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Sarah Addison Allen

L.Allen
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Stephen E. Ambrose

Hans Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson, flutist with 'Jethro Tull' / photo by Alfred Cermak / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienKaren Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Christine Aziz

R. M Ballantyne

wikipedia
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

Beatles (Group)

Wikimedia Commons. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under digital ID cph.3c11094
Mike Bechtle

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.)
Andy Beckett

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
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
Geraldine 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)
Elizabeth Buchan

Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Lewis Carroll

Mavis Cheek

Jane Brown. Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Sir Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Susanna Clarke

Francis Collins

Patricia Cornwell

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)
Emma Darwin

Photo by Roderick Field
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Marele Day

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
F.M. Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Suzannah Dunn

Colin Duriez

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.)
Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Reader's Digest

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

George Eliot

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

Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Henry Fielding

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)
Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Dick Francis

Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Bill Gates

Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Adele Geras

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Ken Gire

Julie Oliphint
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Caroline Graham

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Michael Gruber

H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Sophie Hannah

Titania Hardie

Miguel A. Monjas
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Robert Harris

Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Lauren Henderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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.
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Homer

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

wikipedia
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Richard Harris Barham

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

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

Kate Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

James Joyce

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

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
C.S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
George MacDonald

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.)
Adeline Yen Mah

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Nelson Mandela

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
J Matteson

W Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne Du Maurier

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Tom McCarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
Geraldine McCaughrean

Colleen McCullough

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Giles Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
L. M. MONTGOMERY

wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Natasha Mostert

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Irene Nemirovsky

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Baroness 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/
Elaine Pagels

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Adele Parks

Photograph by Jim Pride
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
M.Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Stef Penney

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Lily Prior

Courtesy of the author
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Tracy Quan

Anna Quindlen

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
Public Domain
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Michele Roberts

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Marilynne Robinson

Peter Robinson

J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Laurie Rozakis

Stephan G. Kravitz
Miguel Cervantes

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

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Owen Sheers

My image.
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Lionel Shriver

Georges Simenon

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

Adam Smith

Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Johanna Spyri

Wallace Stegner

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Andrew Taylor

© Caroline Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
E.P. Thompson

Rosy Thornton

J.R.R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
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
Various

Salley Vickers

George VI

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

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

Alfred Wainwright

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Izaak Walton

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

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
H G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJane Wenham-Jones

Accent Press Ltd
Gilbert White

Wikipedia
Jacqueline Winspear

(c) Mark Fairhurst
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Mrs Henry Wood

Reginald Easton, d. 1893, from Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood, 1894
William Woodruff

Helga Woodruff
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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