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Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Isabel Allende

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

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

----Ken St. Andre
Anonymous

Pellegrino Artusi

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Pat Barker

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Lloyd Biggle, Jr

Godfried Bomans

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Marco Cantu'

Marco Cantù
Orson Scott Card

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Paddy Chayefsky

World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1958 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121944)
Monzaemon Chikamatsu

wikimedia commons - Photo by Suguri_F
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Microsoft Corporation

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Ely Culbertson

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

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Junot Díaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Stephen R. Donaldson

F.M. Dostojewski

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

from Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Desiderius Erasmus

Helen Fielding

F.SCOTT FITZGERALD

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Neil Gaiman

William Gibson

H. R. Giger

JaSunni
Nicolaj Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
James E Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
A.F.Th. van der Heijden

Robert A. 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.
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Nick Hornby

Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Elfriede Jelinek

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Immanuel Kant

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Heinrich von Kleist

Dean Koontz

Tim Krabbé

Milan Kundera

Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Selma Lagerlöf

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

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
D. H. LAWRENCE

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Stephen Laws

photographer - Terry White.
copyright Stephen Laws
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C S Lewis

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Niccolò Machiavelli

Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
David Malki

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
Hector Malot

Leonard Maltin

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
A.A. MILNE

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

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Harry Mulisch

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
William F. (editor) (Shelly Lowenkopf; James Causey; Charles E. Fritch; Frank Anmar; A. E. van Vogt; Ray Bradbury; Henry Kuttner; Chad Oliver; Isaac Asimov; Dennis Etchison; Richard Matheson; Ron Goulart; Robert F. Young; Charles Beaumont) Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
George Orwell

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

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Chaim Potok

J.E. Pournelle

TERRY PRATCHETT

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Matthieu Ricard

Polaroid of Matthieu Ricard taken in 1999 by Elsa Dorfman (Wikimedia)
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
J. K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Stuart J. Russell

No credit given
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Annie M.G. Schmidt

Gustav Schwab

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Seuss (Dr.)

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
Bob Shaw

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

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Dan Simmons

David Sklar

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Steven. Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Theodore. Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Theo Thijssen

Dolph Kohnstamm
J.R.R. Tolkien

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

Jhonen Vasquez

SLG signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Brian K Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienOscar Wilde

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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