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Mario Acevedo

Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
M. T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Kiyohiko Azuma

submitted by Obana (library thing user)
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.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Sabine Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Nicholas Basbanes

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Brian Michael Bendis

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
John Gregory Betancourt

Jgbetancourt
Jerry Bingham

Courtesy of Jerry Bingham.
Bjork

At Hurricane Festival, Germany
(credit: Zach Klein)
Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
Jorge Luis Borges

Marjorie Bowen

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley

J. H Brennan

MARIE BRENNAN

Perry Reighandter
Rob Brezsny

Photo by Brian Eisley. Taken at Burning Man 2003.
David Brin

By R. Feist
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Christopher Brookmyre

www.chrismsaunders.com
Terry Brooks

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Raymond Buckland

Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Robert Byrne

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

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

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Nigel Cawthorne

Colin Cawthorne
Robert W. Chambers

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

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
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)
Douglas Clegg

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Kurt Cobain

P.B. Rage, 1992
John Collier

Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
John Coyne

Photo by Rob Morgan
Jim Crace

David Crystal

Bob Curran

Julie E. Czerneda

TruAspect Photography
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
Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Peter David

Avram Davidson

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Daniel Odier

Daniel Odier
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester Del Rey

August William Derleth

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Reader's Digest

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

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Stephen R. Donaldson

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Alexandre Dumas

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Charles W Eliot LL D

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Richard Ellis

Stephanie Guest
Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
M. C. Escher

Dennis Etchison

Nihonjoe
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Rupert Everett

Vicki Neave
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Philip José. Farmer

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

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Camille Flammarion

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

Christopher Fowler

Pat Frank

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

Northrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Neil Gaiman

David Gemmell

William Gibson

H. R. Giger

JaSunni
Ramon Gomez De LA Serna

Luis García, June 30, 2007
goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

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

Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Alasdair Gray

John Gray

Ursula K. LeGuin

Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Steven Hall

Walnut Whippet
Edith Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Mo Hayder

Anne Hebert

Harry Palmer (1986)
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)
O. Henry

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.
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Tracy Hickman

Jaqen
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
SUSAN HILL

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Michel Houellebecq

Robert Howard

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Shirley Jackson

John Jakes

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Peter James

Grant R. Jeffrey

Jerome K. Jerome

Geoff Johns

Geoff Johns Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Michael Jordan

Joshua Massel
James Joyce

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

Brian Keene

Pagan Kennedy

Jack Kerouac

Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Tim Krabbe

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Stephen Laws

photographer - Terry White.
copyright Stephen Laws
Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Eliphas Levi

Wikipedia
Primo Levi

Matthew 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)
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Jeph Loeb

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Sam J. Lundwall

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Eric Van Lustbader

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Helen Macinnes

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

Eye on Books
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
WALTER DE LA MARE

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

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.)
Richard Matheson

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Sharyn McCrumb

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Edited By Judith Merril

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
John Michell

John Michell
Mike Mignola

Credit: SolGrundy (Flickr user), 2006
Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Milton

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Christopher Morley

Grant Morrison

James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Catriona Sparks.
Paul Newman

TriviaKing
Geoff Nicholson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stewart O'Nan

George Orwell

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
R.R. Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Charles Panati

Graham Parker

Steve Bachman, July 13, 2003
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
H. Beam Piper

Photo from Murder in the Gunroom (1953) dust jacket
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Neal Pollack

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas De Quincey

Dee Dee Ramone

kjpm
Robert Rankin

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Jane Roberts

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Davy Rothbart

Photo taken by Dorothy Gotlib.
Arundhati Roy

Donald Rumbelow

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Marquis De Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Alexei Sayle

www.chrismsaunders.com
John Scalzi

Harold Schechter

Photographed by Bela Borsodi
David J. Schow

Damon D'Amato - Wikimedia Commons
Jon Scieszka

Rod Serling

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation
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 Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
M. P. Shiel

Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Kevin Smith

Credit: Joey O'Rourke, 2006, Red Bank, N.J.
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Whitley Strieber

CHARLES STROSS

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Koji Suzuki

© Vertical, Inc.
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Henry David Thoreau

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

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Alexis Tolstoy

Public domain (Wikipedia Commons)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Peter Tremayne

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Dalton Trumbo

Thomas Tryon

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

Judy Mays
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Samuel L. Clemens

from Wikipedia
Serena Valentino

photograph courtesy of Serena Valentino
Vance Jack

David M. Alexander
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
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)
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Mark Waid

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Horace Walpole

Andy Warhol

Alexander Waugh

Glyn Howells
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
David Wellington

Photo by the author.
H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Thomas Wharton

Thomas Wharton
Shannon Wheeler

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
James White

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
1969 Eastercon (British National Science Fiction Convention),
Oxford, England.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Oscar Wilde

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

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
F. Paul Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson

Flickr user dbuk2
Judd Winick

Photo by Wikipedia User Nightscream
Marv Wolfman

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
David Grinnell

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Edward Davis Wood

Stuart Woods

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
Jane Yolen

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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