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Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong (1969).
Robert G. Allen

Photograph by Joe Brooks
Tim Allen

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (cropped) ~ Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
Stephen E. Ambrose

Anonymous

Aristotle

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

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Lauren Bacall

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

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

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Ben Bova

Barbara Boxer

from Boxer's U.S. Senate website
Ray Bradbury

David Brin

By R. Feist
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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

Shunn
Byran Burrough

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Richard Francis Burton

William H. Calvin

George Carlin

Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Andrew Chaikin

(right) Credit: NASA/Doreen B. Zudell
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)
Richard A. Clarke

Author photograph by AFP/Corbis
Eldridge Cleaver

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Robert Conquest

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin wipes a tear after being honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, during ceremonies at the White House. Looking on are fellow recipients Robert Conquest, left, and Alan Greenspan.
Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganAmerican National Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
Clive Cussler

Charles Darwin

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

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Lester Del Rey

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jared Diamond

Reader's Digest editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
J.M. Dillard

Stephen R. Donaldson

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

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

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Harlan Ellison

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

Courtesy of David Feldman
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Carrie Fisher

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

Catherine Eldridge
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Pat Frank

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

Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Joel Garreau

Photo by Kenneth Garrett
Laurie Garrett

Credit: Pierre Omidyar (Flickr)
William Gibson

Miep Gies

Photo by Brigitta Braune. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-0919-035)
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Jane van Lawick-Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Pete Souza
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Brian Greene

Dick Gregory

World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hiller, 1964 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121425)
Merv Griffin

Colonel David H. Hackworth

Joe W. Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Katharine Hepburn

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 Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Homer Hickam

courtesy of Homer Hickam
Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Adolf Hitler

James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Molly Ivins

Peter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Peter Jennings

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

Kurt Wilson
Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Steve Jones

aleksandar2
Thomas D. Jones

Photo created by NASA
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
John F Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
M. E. Kerr

Marijane Meaker
Edward Koch

White House Staff Photographer
Ron Kovic

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1990.
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
Peter D. Kramer

Paul R. Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Milan Kundera

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Ann Landers

By Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress.
Gentry Lee

Image credit: NASA/JPL
(nasa.gov)
Spike Lee

photo by Gregg Chadwick
John Lennon

David H. Levy

JPL
Sinclair Lewis

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

Charles A. Lindbergh

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jerry M. Linenger

Photo created by NASA
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
John Long

Jim Lovell

Photo created by NASA
Niccolo Machiavelli

Nelson Mandela

Barry Manilow

Credit: Matt Becker, St. Paul, Minnesota, Jan. 11, 2008
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Ed McMahon

Photo by Alan Light (Wikimedia)
Terry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Robert S. McNamara

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Feb. 9, 1968, Cabinet meeting, White House
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Suketu Mehta

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
H. L. Mencken

James A. Michener

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

(Library of Congress Prints and Photography Division LC-DIG-ggbain-14964)
Chris Mooney

Richard K. Morgan

Bill Moyers

John Naisbitt

(cc) Michael Sauers, 2006
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Richard Milhous Nixon

Official U.S. Presidential Portrait (National Archives & Recores)
William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
William A. Nolen

Kenneth P. O'Donnell

Photograph by Abbie Rowe, National Park Service: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
George Orwell

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Greg Palast

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Gordon Parks

Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
John Perkins

Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Jerry Pournelle

Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ayn Rand

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

Photo by Dave Winer (Flickr/Cropped for Wikipedia)
Piers Paul Read

Christopher Reeve

Photo taken by Walt Grogan
Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Anthony Robbins

Anthony Robbins, life coach and speaker
Credit: Steve Jurvetson, 2006
Tom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Norman Rockwell

Gene Roddenberry

Listening to fans after his lecture at the Student Union of the University of Texas at Austin, ca. 1978. Photograph by Larry D. Moore.
Robert E. Rubin

U.S. Dept. of Treasury
Bertrand Russell

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

Jehan Sadat

Credit: George Kelly, 2006, Walnut Creek, Calif.
Carl Sagan

Charles W. Sasser

Photographed by Donna Sasser
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Gale Sayers

U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Jeremiah Sholtis
Col. Robert L. Scott

Wikipedia (U.S. Army Photo)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Donald K. Slayton

Photo created by NASA
Dennis Smith

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
L. Neil Smith

Courtesy of L. Neil Smith.
Martin Cruz Smith

Photograph by Menuez Pictures
Albert Speer

Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Steven Squyres

NASA Calif Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory
George Stephanopoulos

Jay Tamboli
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Whitley Strieber

Ron Suskind

Columbia University
Viktor Suvorov

Anthony Swofford

John Burlinson, Feb. 22, 2008
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Lewis Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Time-Life Editors

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Alvin Toffler

Robert Basile
Donald J. Trump

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Various

John Varley

Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Juan Williams

Garry Wills

I took this photo!
Naomi Wolf

Bob Woodward

Herman Wouk

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

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

Ben Stechshulte
Robert Zubrin

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