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Paperback Pirate
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Abelard

Daniel Abraham

Catriona Sparks
Bruce Ackerman

courtesy of Prof. Bruce Arnold Ackerman
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Adams

reading_fox
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Ferran Adrià

Photo by user Sono pazzi / Wikimedia Commons.
Aeschylus

Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Sherman Alexie

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Dorothy Allison

Jorge Amado

The Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Laura Antoniou

uncredited, per the author
Sergio Aragones

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Hannah Arendt

Pietro Aretino

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen
und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machado_assis.jpg#filelinks
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Ellis Avery

Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Christopher Baldwin

From Chris Baldwin
J G Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J. M. Barrie

Dave Barry

Roland Barthes

John Barth

Najmieh Batmanglij

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Charles A. Beard

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

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Samuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

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

Rose Levy Beranbaum

George Berkeley

Steve Berman

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Adolfo Bioy Casares

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jorge Luis Borges

Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marie Brennan

Perry Reighandter
Susie Bright

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
David Brin

By R. Feist
Harold Brodkey

Artist: Howard Coale for The New Yorker, 1995
Max Brooks

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Algis Budrys

Shunn
Mark Budz

Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Anthony Burgess

Edmund Burke

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Jim Butcher

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Pat Califia

Anonymous
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Karel Capek

Fritjof Capra

Orson Scott Card

Benjamin Cardozo

circa 1932 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-38302)
Jacqueline Carey

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Robert Spencer Carr

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James P. Carse

http://www.jamescarse.com
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Willa Cather

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Graham Chapman

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Sigrid Estrada
C.J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Ted Chiang

Elze Hamilton
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Noam Chomsky

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

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Carl Von Clausewitz

J. M. Coetzee

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Nicolaus Copernicus

Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)
Chris Coppola

Chris Coppola
Trevor Corson

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
e. e. cummings

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

Photo by Albie Sharp
Antonio Damasio

Dan Lurie / Flickr
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Jamie Delano

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester Del Rey

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

John Dewey

Credit: Keystone View Co., New York
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen Dobyns

E.L. Doctorow

John Donne

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

Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
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Alexander Dumas

Fuchsia Dunlop

Tang Yuewu
Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Ronald Dworkin

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Bob Dylan

Shirin Ebadi

David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Umberto Eco

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

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

T. S. Eliot

Harlan Ellison

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

Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Maria Amparo Escandon

Photo Courtesy of Gina Ruiz
M.C. Escher

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Mark Evanier

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
Frantz Fanon

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Leslie Feinberg

Raymond Feist

Georges Seguin
Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
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.)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Bobby Flay performing a cooking demonstration in Green Bay, Wisconsin by Larkworb
Karl Franz Fogel

Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Michel Foucault

Christopher Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Robert Frost

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

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
R. Buckminster Fuller

Neil Gaiman

Galileo Galilei

Justus Sustermans
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons photographed by Rachel Lovinger
William Gibson

Jack Gilbert

Julio Granda
William Gilbert

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
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

William Goldman

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

Permission of KAG.
Angelica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Alasdair Gray

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Peter P. Greweling

Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. LeGuin

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Alexander Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Dan Harmon

Irina Slutsky
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Keith Hartman

William Harvey

Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library,
University of Kansas Medical Center
Jaroslav Hasek

Photo by Matěj Baťha / Wikimedia Commons
Marc D. Hauser

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855)
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
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.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Oscar Hijuelos

Hippocrates

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Ken Hite

Photo by Lilithcat
Adolf Hitler

John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Oliver Wendell Holmes

C.D. Fredricks
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nalo Hopkinson

Dara Horn

Photo: Michael Priest
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sue Hubbell

Robert Giard
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Four Courts and the River Liffey, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
pdphoto.orgKazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Molly Ivins

Jane Jacobs

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Jerome K. Jerome

K.W. Jeter

Infrogmation of New Orleans
Kij Johnson

Judith Jones

Christopher Hirsheimer
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
James Joyce

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Carl Gustav Jung

Ernst Junger

Franz Kafka

Ken Kalfus

Immanuel Kant

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Keller

Brett Wilson
Diana Kennedy

Johannes Kepler

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

Ken Kesey

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Jamaica Kincaid

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

Stephen King

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

Gail K. Evanari
Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Greg Kurzawa

Author Greg Kurzawa
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)
R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
George Lakoff

Laila Lalami

Photo by Sara Corwin
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
The Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueAndrew Lang

wikipedia
L. L. Langstroth

Jerome Lawrence

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

David Lebovitz

malias, July 29, 2005
Fritz Leiber

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

Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Steven Levy

C. S. Lewis

Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Sergei Lukyanenko

Wikipedia
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
George MacDonald

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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

David Mack

David W. Mack, Exhibit Hall, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Deborah Madison

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Moses Maimonides

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don Marquis

George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Scott McCloud

Frank McCourt

Sharyn Mccrumb

Carson McCullers

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

Maureen F. McHugh

Dave McKean

Photo taken by Kris A. Celario, can be viewed on
FlikrPatricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Rand McNally

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Dinaw Mengestu

Blair Feathers
Midori

Kumimonster.com
China Mieville

Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Henry Miller

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

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

Anthony Minghella

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Michel E. De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Richard Morgan

Grant Morrison

William Morris

From Wikipedia
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Patrick (Editor) Nielsen Hayden

Cory Doctorow, September 1, 2007
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Donald Norman

jnd.org
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganTim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Marc Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueMary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

Sherry Russell
Ovid

Ruth L. Ozeki

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Dorothy Parker

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

Wikipedia
Milorad Pavic

Richard Peck

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Henry Petroski

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsSteven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Luigi Pirandello

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Marco Polo

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Chaim Potok

Dawn Powell

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Aleksandr Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Carol Queen

Charles Haynes
Willard Van Orman Quine

Courtesy of Dr. Douglas Quine.
Daniel Quinn

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Francois 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
John Rawls

David Rees

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
A. N. Roquelaure

Becket M. Ghioto
Rainer Maria Rilke

John Ringo

Used by permission of John Ringo.
Giannes Ritsos

Grave of Yannis Ritsos, Monemvasia, Greece. Photo by user Idler/ German Wikipedia.
Diego Rivera

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, Mar. 19, 1932 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-103973)
Tom Robbins

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
W.H.D. Rouse

Arundhati Roy

Laurie Rozakis, Ph.D.

Stephan G. Kravitz
Julian Rubinstein

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Matt Ruff

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Elena Seibert
William Safire

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

George Santayana

Philosopher George Santayana (10 April 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Antonin Scalia

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Supreme Court Portait)
John Scalzi

Christopher Schlesinger

East Coast Grill
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Bruce Schneier

from Wikipedia
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Karl Schroeder

DaVe Hogg
John Searle

Photo by Matthew Breindel / Wikimedia Commons
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Dr. Seuss

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
Meir Shalev

Beny Shlevich
Ntozake Shange

Photo by Frank Stewart
Michael Shapiro

irina slutsky
George Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Nina Simonds

Richard Howard
Cordwainer Smith

Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Benedict de Spinoza

Richard M. Stallman

Chrys
William Olaf Stapledon

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

copyright Ralph Steadman, photograph by Anna Steadman
John Steinbeck

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marie-Henri Beyle de Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Sean Stewart

Frank R. Stockton

See below.
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
I.F. Stone

Kzitelman
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rex Stout and the Editors of The Viking Press

www.nerowolfe.org
Peter Straub

Charles Stross

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Michael Swanwick

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