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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Arthur Agatston

W H Ainsworth

Project Gutenberg
BRIAN ALDISS

Szymon Sokół
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kingsley Amis

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Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena

Kate Atkinson

Sir David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
R M Ballantyne

wikipedia
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Hilaire Belloc

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Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
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Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
R D Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Arthur Blessitt

Boethius (translated and introduced by V.E. Watts)

Fortune Du Boisgobey

James Boswell

Ben Bova

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

M. E. Braddon

James Bradley

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England presents author James Bradley the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Award for his contributions in keeping alive the history of the Navy and Marine Corps.
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Anne Bronte

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
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Sir Thomas Browne

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Robert Burleigh

Credit: Mark Burleigh
A.S. BYATT

Seamus Kearney
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Lewis Carroll

ANGELA CARTER (EDITOR)

John Burlinson
Kate Charles

Laurel Anderson
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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G. K Chesterton

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Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
David Crystal

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

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Monica Dickens

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Reader's Digest

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

John Donne

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Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Alexandre Dumas

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Colin Duriez

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.)
Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

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

George Eliot

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Alice Thomas Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
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

Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
C. S. Forester

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
George MacDonald Fraser

Esther Freud

Esther Freud (1963- )
(AP Watt)
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

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

Sally Gardner

Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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Victoria Glendinning

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Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Gail Godwin

William Godwin

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William Golding

Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Kate Greenaway

Kate Greenaway in her studio, 1895
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Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Hammett Dashiell

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
G A Henty

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Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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.
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hogg

Winifred Holtby

John Burlinson
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
W. H. Hudson

wikipedia.org
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Isherwood

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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Jeffrey Kacirk

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn (1922-1983)
Photographed by Thomas J. O'Halloran, May 11, 1965.
(U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jan Karon

Garrison. Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Margaret Kennedy

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

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Milan. Kundera

Hari Kunzru

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Harper Lee

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

John Burlinson
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival

C. S. Lewis

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)
Marina Lewycka

David Lindsay

Penelope Lively

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jim. Lovell

Photo created by NASA
Jack Lynch

courtesy author
Dame Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Thomas Babington Macaulay

George MacDonald

Used by permission of
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Maurice Maeterlinck

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Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Photo © Jeremy Balderson
John Masefield

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne Du Maurier

IAN MCEWAN

Eamonn McCabe
Cheryl Mendelson

George Meredith

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John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
A A Milne

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John Milton

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Theodore Mommsen

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Julie Morgenstern

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Kate Mosse

Evelyn Nesbit

Credit: Gertrude Käsebier, circa 1900, about age 16
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ppmsca-12056)

Garth Nix

Barack Obama

Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Mrs. Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
G. Owell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Allison Pearson

Jerry Bauer
George Perry

Justin Shenk
Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Christine de Pisan

from Wikipedia
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Laurens Van Der Post

© Robert Hinshaw
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Oxford University Press

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J B Priestley

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Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Mark Radcliffe

shaggy359
Julian Rathbone

Mary Renault

Samuel Richardson

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer
J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Rafael Sabatini

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J.D. Salinger

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Sir 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
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Sarah Smith

(c)Sherry Briggs
Zadie Smith

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Robert Southey

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Elizabeth Taylor

Author Elizabeth Taylor
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G. P. Taylor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
M A Titmarsh

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Rose Tremain

Anthony Trollope

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Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
George Turner

Norstrilia Press
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
various

Vasari Giorgio

Self Portrait. Public domain
Salley Vickers

Margaret Visser

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Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edgar Wallace

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Horace Walpole

Jill Paton Walsh

Izaak Walton

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Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRebecca West

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Kate Douglas Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Oscar Wilde

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(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Charles Williams

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Mary Wollstonecraft

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The Rev'd James Woodforde

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Virginia Woolf

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