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Douglas Adams

Louisa May Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Sherman Alexie

Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Piers Anthony

Michael A. Arnzen

photo (c) 2005 by Renate Muller, used with permission
Issac Asimov-

©Rowena
Jane Austen

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

Christopher Barzak

Nebula nominee Christopher Barzak
with editor Liz Gorinsky at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGregory Bassham

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Chaz Brenchley

Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
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
Jerome Bruner

© Vincent W. Hevern
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Andrew M. Butler

Samuel Butler

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Susanna Clarke

John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Francis Ford Coppola

Source: Preşedintele României website (photo taken Sept. 21, 2005 at meeting with President of Romania)
Patricia Cornwell

Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
David Damrosch

Samuel R. Delaney

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Rael Dornfest

Joi Ito
Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Alexandre Dumas

UMBERTO ECO

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Harlan (editor) Ellison

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

wikipedia
Charles G Finney

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.)
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Neil Gaiman

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Christopher Golden

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Andrew M. Greeley

from wikipedia
Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Harvard University
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Ursula K. Le Guin

Edith Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928

from Wikipedia
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Seamus Heaney


Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

bell hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Terry Jones

Robert Jordan

L. E. Modessit

(cc)2005, Michael Sauers
Carl Gustav Jung

Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Graham Kerr

Stephen King

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

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
George Lakoff

The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Langenscheidt

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

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Gaston Leroux, 1868-1927

from Wikipedia
C.S. Lewis

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Eliza Lynn Linton

Mrs. Lynn Linton
H. P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Scott Mccloud

Maureen F. McHugh

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Farah Mendlesohn

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Judith (ed.) Merril

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
John Milton

Dinty W. Moore

Courtesy of the author

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Soseki Natsume

Martha C. Nussbaum

Robin Holland
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

George Orwell

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

Misa Martin
George Perry

Justin Shenk
Candace B. Pert

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mary Pipher, Ph D.

Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Victoria Holt

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik POHL

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Samuel Richardson

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Phyllis Rose


Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Newt Scamander

Laurie E. Rozakis

Stephan G. Kravitz
Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Dan Savage

Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Stanley Schmidt

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
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
John Patrick Shanley

James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Jan Siegel

Shel Silverstein

Edmund Spenser

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Giles Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Charles Stross

Matthew Sweet

Tom McShane
Wislawa Szymborska

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
J.R.R. Tolkien

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Boris Vallejo

From wikimedia commons
A. E. van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various Authors

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Vernor Vinge

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

Credit: Szymon Sokół, 2005, Glasgow, Scotland
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
P.G. Wodehouse

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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