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Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
S.Y. Abramovitsh

from Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Pamela Aidan

Lloyd Alexander

Sherman Alexie

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Hans Christian Anderson

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Anonymous

Reza Aslan

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Steve Augarde

Jane Austen

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

Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Dave Barry

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
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Allyson Beatrice

Photo by P.M. Carlson
Alban Berg

Georges Bizet

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

Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges Acevedo

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Pearl S. Buck

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Seamus Kearney
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

John le Carre

Lewis. Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Cecil Castellucci

Photo by Craig Wadlin
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Christopher Hirsheimer
Cassandra Clare

Courtesy of Cassandra Clare.
Susanna Clarke

Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Kate Constable

Sharon Creech

Alison Croggon

Courtesy of Alison Croggon
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Dante

by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450
Edwidge Danticat

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Peter David

Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Don DeLillo

Sarah Dessen

sarahdessen.com
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Roman Dirge

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Alexander Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Jeanne Duprau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Umberto Eco

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

Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

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

T. S. Eliot

Ralph Ellison

Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Joshua Ferris

Richard Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

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
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Viktor E. Frankl

Jonathan Franzen

James Frey

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

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

CHICKEN HOUSE
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Atul Gawande

Center for American Progress
Kahlil Gibran

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Gluckel

Bertha Pappenheim as Glikl bas Judah Leib (Glückel von Hameln)
William Goldman

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

Heinrich Graetz. Frontispiece from History of the Jews (1891).
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Danny Gregory

Andrea Scher
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Austin Grossman

Christopher Peterson (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Gruber

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. Le Guin

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Pete Hautman

Photo by Linda Poverman
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Julie Hearn

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Dara Horn

Photo: Michael Priest
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Bill Jamison

with Cheryl Alters Jamison
photo by Mary Jablonsky
Randa Jarrar

John Burlinson
Jocelin of Brakelond

Ruins of Bury St. Edmond's Abbey, Suffolk, England, 2003. Photo by Bob Jones / Geograph Project
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Melissa Kantor

Courtesy of the author
Jonathon Keats

Photo by Timothy Vollmer / Flickr
Edward M. Kennedy

אתגר קרת

Moti Kakayon (מוטי קיקיון)
P. B. Kerr

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Rudyard Kipling

Michelle Knudsen

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Antoine Lavoisier

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Lawrence Lessig

Joi Ito
Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Primo Levi

Steven Levy

Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
David Liss

E. Lockhart

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Niccolo Machiavelli

Carolyn Mackler

Photo by Sonya Sones
Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Moses Maimonides

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles C. Mann

Photo: J.D. Sloan
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Melissa Marr

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Justin Martyr

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

Geraldine McCaughrean

Ron McLarty

Emma McLaughlin

Melito

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Daniel Mendelsohn

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganClaire Messud

Derek Shapton
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
Steve Miller

A A Milne

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Catherine Murdock

Photo by Greg Martin
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Ogden Nash

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

Patrick Ness

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Garth Nix

Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Walter Pater

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Mary E. Pearson

Courtesy of the author
Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Marisha Pessl

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tamora Pierce

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Max Planck

Deutsche Post AG
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Julie Powell

unknown
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Richard A Proctor

E. Annie Proulx

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

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Anna Quindlen

Ayn Rand

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

Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Andrea Di Robilant

Photo © Jerry Bauer
J.K. Rowling

Laura Ruby

Photo by Stephen Metro
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J.D. Salinger

Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Lawrence H. Schiffman

Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Jon Scieszka

Walter Sir Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
Maurice Sendak

Hannah Senesh

Elif Shafak

Bahar
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Hershel Shanks

Eric Shanower

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2007
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Shel Silverstein

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Scott Smith

Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Jordan Sonnenblick

jordansonnenblick.com
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

WIkipedia
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Robin Stevenson

David Lowes
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Leah Stewart

Photo by Carolyn Ebbitt
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Geoffrey R. Stone

Photo by Lilithcat
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
James Turner

Photo by Adam Hodgson, Flickr
Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Sigrid Undset

John Updike

Martha Updike
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Nancy Werlin

Photo by Meghan Moore
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Joss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
Laura Whitcomb

Coughlin-Glaser Photography
E.B. WHITE

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

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

David Shankbone, September 2007
Tennessee Williams

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

J.D. Sloan
Ellen Wittlinger

Photo by Sonya Sones
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Gene Luen Yang

Library of Congress
A. B. Yehoshua

Yuma
Sara Zarr

Gabrielle Zevin

Aaron Eckhart
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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