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Chris Abani

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Karen Abbott

Photo by Gilbert King
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Qanta A. Ahmed

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Pedro Antonio De Alarcon

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

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

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas

Jorge Amado

Stephen E. Ambrose

The Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kurt Andersen

Brigitte Lacombe
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Sherwood Anderson

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

Debby Applegate, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgApuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Enid Bagnold

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Brunonia Barry

Martha Everson

Sebastian Barry

Allison Hoover Bartlett

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

Christopher Hirsheimer
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Charles Baxter

Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Samuel Beckett

Frank Beddor

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Aphra Behn

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

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Sven Birkerts

Harvard University
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Charles Botta

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

Eye on Books
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Ray Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Bertolt Brecht

David J. Brewer

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, circa 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83098)
Julia Briggs

Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
Louis Bromfield

Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1933
(Carl Van Vechten Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LOT 12735, no. 155)
Anne Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Washington Cable

1915 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-102501)
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Elizabeth Cambridge

1913
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books

Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Orson Scott Card

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
J.L. Carr

Photo: Heulwen Cox

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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)
Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Sigrid Estrada
Charles W. Chesnutt

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. K. Chesterton

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

J. Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Philippe Claudel

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee


Christine Coleman

Colette

from Wikipedia
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Libby Cone

photo by Joe Chielli

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robert Creeley

Portrait of Rober Creeley taken by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net) in 1972 in her Flagg St Kitchen.
Jennifer Crusie

Photo by Jennifer Maler
E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Diane Mott Davidson

Robertson Davies

Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Warwick Deeping

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

E.M. Delafield

Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Don DeLillo

Elizabeth Dewberry


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant


Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Jim Dwyer

Columbia University
Maria Edgeworth

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

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
George Eliot

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

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Hallie Ephron

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Linda Fairstein

Sheridan Le Fanu

William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Edna Ferber

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

c1866, Library of Congress
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Joy Fielding

Orlando Figes

Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Theordor Fontane

Wikipedia Commons
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Clare Francis

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Dorothea Benton Frank

Caroline Greyshock
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George Macdonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Max Frisch

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

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Alan Furst

Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jane Gardam

Lisa Gardner

Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

William John Thomson

Adele Geras

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Ian Gibson

Miguel A. Monjas
Andre Gide

1893
Sandra Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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

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

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Gail Godwin

Johann Wolfgang von 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)
Glen David Gold

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons

Ivan Goncharov

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Robert Goolrick

Leigh Ledare
Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Caroline Graham

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Graver

Debi Milligan
Graham Greene

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lauren Groff

Lucy Schaeffer
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. Le Guin

Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Mohammed Hanif

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Karen Harper

Jeffrey A. Rycus
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Elizabeth Hay

Roselawn Author Series, January 2008, photo by Giulia Forsythe
Eliza Haywood

Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Lillian Hellman

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

Lisa Kennedy
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)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Silas House

Photo by Cheyenne House
William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Glyn Hughes

Halifax Courier
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
M. J. Hyland

Henrik Ibsen

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

(c)2006 ML Frank / GraphicsCount.com
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Henry James

Wikipedia

P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksRichard Jefferies

Wikipedia
Emyl Jenkins

Robert M. Sexton
Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Mary Karr

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Carolyn G. Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jesse Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Diana Kennedy

Edward M. Kennedy

Haven Kimmel

photo: Greg Plachta
Cassandra King

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ross King

Yusef Komunyakaa

Photo by Lilithcat
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hari Kunzru

Stanley I. Kutler

Madame de Lafayette

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Sharon Lathan

Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Halldor Laxness

Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Donna Leon

Jill Lepore

Dari Michele
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
David Liss

Jonathan Littell

David Monniaux
Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Federico Garcia Lorca

Niccolo Machiavelli

Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Deborah Madison

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Kate Maloy

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
John P. Marquand

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Catherine 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.)
Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Steve Martini

Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
John Matteson

W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant


Daphne Du Maurier

George Du Maurier

Elliott & Fry
Andre Maurois

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007

Carson McCullers

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


Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe

John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
W.H. McGuffey

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Mameve Medwed

mamevemedwed.com
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
H. L. Mencken

George Meredith

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

Derek Shapton
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan

Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)

Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Rick Moody

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Hannah More

Undated print (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-30514)
Fidelis Morgan

fidelismorgan.com
Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Kate Mosse

Natasha Mostert

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Sena Jeter Naslund

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Amelie Nothomb


Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stephen B. Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Barack Obama

Edna O'Brien

Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College

Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Emmuska 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/
Sharon Owens

Helen Oyeyemi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Zz Packer

Marion Ettinger
Thomas Paine

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Credit: Pirie MacDonald, 1914
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-105818)
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com/images/photo_pups.jpg
James Patterson

Octavio Paz

Molly Peacock

Drawing by Lara Tomlin
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Iain Pears

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Joseph Persico

Joseph E. Persico Papers. M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries, State University of New York
Marisha Pessl

Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
John Pipkin

KennethGall.com
Sylvia Plath

George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Katherine Anne Porter

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Julie Powell

unknown
Kim Powers

John Burlinson. Nov. 4, 2007
David A. Price

© 2003 Simon Bruty
J.B. Priestley

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

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Anna Quindlen

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Edeet Ravel

Courtesy of the author
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Richardson

Rainer Maria Rilke

Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Marilynne Robinson

Andromeda Romano-Lax

Brian Lax
Tatiana de Rosnay

Matsas/EHO
Joseph Roth

J. K. Rowling

Susanna Rowson

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

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
William Safire

Credit: White House photo by Shealah Craighead, Dec. 15, 2006, receiving the 2006 President Medal of Freedom
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Harold Schechter

Photographed by Bela Borsodi
Paul Schneider

nina bramhall
Cory Schreiber

Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Walter Scott

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

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Brian Selznick

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

Wikipedia
Kamila Shamsie

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Alan Sillitoe

Ignazio Silone

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-124441.
Dan Simmons


Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer

Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Betty Smith

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