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Edward Abbey

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Louisa May Alcott

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

Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Julia Alvarez

Kathy Hogan Trocheck

HarperCollins
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Djuna Barnes

public domain
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Barth

Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Luther Standing Bear

Credit: Photo by Fowler, Chicago, July 21, 1891
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-56421)
Samuel Beckett

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Anne Brontë

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dee Brown

Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
John Brunner

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

Robert Cowen
Edna Buchanan

Photograph by Jim Virga
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephen J. Cannell

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lorenzo Carcaterra

Eye on Books
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Alden R. Carter

Ana Castillo

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Tom Clancy

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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

Photo by Jim Bradbury / Flickr.
John Clum

Indian agent John P. Clum with Diablo and Eskiminzim, at San Carlos Agency: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7938)
(cropped)
Paulo Coelho

Margaret Coel

Taken by Lesa Holstine, Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, Sept. 8, 2007
Don Coldsmith

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A. J. Cronin

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

Photo courtesy of Chris Crutcher.
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)
Roger Daniels

Roger Daniels (1927- )
University of Cincinnati Charles Phelps Taft
Professor Emeritus of History
Nelson DeMille

Jacques Derrida

Descartes

from Wikipedia
Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Stephen R. Donaldson

Frederick Douglass

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Dominick Dunne

Eye on Books
Charles A. Eastman

From "AMONG THE SIOUX
A Story of The Twin Cities and The Two Dakotas," Creswell, 1906
(Project Gutenberg)
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
Alexander Eliot

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
George Eliot

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

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Maria Amparo Escandon

Photo Courtesy of Gina Ruiz
Melissa Etheridge

pixelviz, July 7, 2007
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
James Farmer

World Telegram & Sun photo by Walter Albertin, 1963 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119481)
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Paul Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Anatole France

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

James Frey

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Kahlil Gibran

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

Eileen Goudge

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Halberstam

Janet Campbell Hale

Alice Bergeron
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
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Bret Harte

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Anthony Hecht

Dorothy Alexander
Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
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)
O. Henry

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Tony Hillerman

Tami Hoag

(c) Exley Foto Inc.
Jennifer L. Holm

Library of Congress
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Linda Howard

Photo © Brian Velenchenko
L. Ron Hubbard

Tanya Huff

Madeline Hunter

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Henry James

Wikipedia
Randa Jarrar

John Burlinson
Robinson Jeffers

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, July 9, 1937 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52184)
Susan Jeffers

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Jerry Bauer
James Joyce

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

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Dean Koontz

Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Milan Kundera

Winona Laduke

Photo by Eclectek
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
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
Aldo Leopold

C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr.
Christopher Logue

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Robert Ludlum

Mike Lupica

Eric Lustbader

Gayle Lynds

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Shirley Maclaine

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marlowe Christopher

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Anne McCaffrey

Carson McCullers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
S. I. McMillen

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.)
HERMAN MELVILLE

from Wikipedia
Rigoberta Menchu

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Arthur Miller

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

N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Emilio F Moran

Courtesy of Indiana University
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Walter Dean Myers

Carla Neggers

Pablo Neruda

Scott O'Dell

Christian Parenti

David Shankbone, September 2007
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Ridley Pearson

Tamora Pierce

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Neal Pollack

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Katherine Anne. PORTER

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Marsha Qualey

Courtesy of Marsha Qualey
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Jeremy Rifkin

Tom Robbins

Kenneth Lewis Roberts

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

Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
John Saul

Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Ntozake Shange

Photo by Frank Stewart
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Sidney Sheldon

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
ALAN SILLITOE

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Gary Snyder

1990s
Elizabeth George Speare

Patricia Sprinkle

Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone in 2000. Photo © Tiberius B
John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
R. L. Stine

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Frank Richard Stockton

See below.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Jean Toomer

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

Photo by Vernon Galloway
(trumanlibrary.org)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tsu

Anya Ulinich

Nightscream
John Updike

Martha Updike
Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Urrea
Various

Jules Vernes

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
William Walker

William Walker, filibuster, circa 1850s
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-cwpbh-01280)
Larry Watson

Photo by Susan Watson
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE.B. White

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

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

Elena Seibert
Tennessee Williams

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

Sherryl Woods

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)
LAURENCE YEP

Jane Yolen

Zitkala-Sa

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-119349)
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