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Edward Abbey

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Louisa May Alcott

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

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sherwood Anderson

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

John Ashbery

Portrait by Juno Gemes.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

denton@speakeasy.net
Mikhail Bakhtin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Lester Bangs

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Roland Barthes

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Simone de Beauvoir

Saul Bellow

John Berendt

Eye on Books
John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Paul Bowles

Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

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)
Dee Brown

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Samuel Butler

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Elias Canetti

Truman Capote

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

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
J. M. Coetzee

Nancy Collins

Flickr user infrogmation
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Aleister Crowley

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
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)
Robertson Davies

Clarence Day

L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E. L. Doctorow

J. P Donleavy

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-05654 (cropped)
T. S. Eliot

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Harlan Ellison

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Empson

John Burlinson
Dennis Etchison

Nihonjoe
Marianne Faithfull

Just_guy, 2007
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
James T. Farrell

John Farris

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.)
Stanley Fish

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
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

Ian Fleming

Carolyn Forche

MDCarchives
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Frederick Forsyth

John Fowles

Jonathan Franzen

George MacDonald Fraser

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
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
Stephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Henry Louis Gates

Théophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jean Genet

William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
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)
William Golding

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Ursula K. LeGuin

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert 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)
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)
Karl Hess

The Mises Institute
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Bohumil Hrabal

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

Joyce Ravid
Herbert Huncke

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eugene Ionesco

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Molly Ivins

Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Gerald Kersh

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

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Ted Kooser

Jerzy Kosinski

Milan Kundera

Louis L'Amour

Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueD. 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
Fritz Leiber

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

photo copyright Steve Double
Claude Levi-Strauss

C S Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Niccolo Machiavelli

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Thomas Mann

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Richard Matheson

Larry McCaffery

Photo by
srett on flickr.com
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
John McPhee

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

from Wikipedia
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
James A. Michener

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Henry Miller

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Steven Millhauser

John Milton

Charles Mingus

Tom Marcello, July 4, 1976
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
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)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Iris Murdoch

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

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

Frederic Reglain
Howard Nemerov

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
George Orwell

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

Misa Martin
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Petronius

Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Ann Powers

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Annie Proulx

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

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

François Rabelais

Ayn Rand

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mike Resnick

A. N. Roquelaure

Becket M. Ghioto
I.A. Richards

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Tom Robbins

Theodore Roethke

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Viktor Borisovich Shklovskiĭ

http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/129/sarnov.htm
Ignazio Silone

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Betty Smith

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

Oswald Spengler

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
George Steiner

Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Laren Stover

Laren Stover author photo by Marion Ettlinger
Peter Straub

Whitley Streiber

Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Lewis Thomas

Hunter S. Thompson

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Jean Toomer

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

Dalton Trumbo

Thomas Tryon

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

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Joseph Wambaugh

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

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

Credit: Ederyn Williams
William Carlos Williams

Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Edmund Wilson

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

Flickr user dbuk2
P.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Geoffrey Wolff

Tony Rollo
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Philip Wylie

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-118224
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