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Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Wikipedia
Marc Abrahams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Addison

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Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Louisa May Alcott

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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)

Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson

Hans Christian Anderson; Robert Browning; Jean Henri Fabre; Leo Tolstoy

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
M. T. Anderson

Library of Congress
St. Athanasius

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

George Whiteside
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Sir Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Russell Baker

Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
J.M. Barrie

The Venerable Bede

Edward Bellamy

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Robert Benchley

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E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
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Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Corrie Ten Boom

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Wolfgang Borchert

Deutsch Post AG and Rosemarie Clausen / Wikimedia Commons
Gregory A. Boyd

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.)
T. C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

M. E. Braddon

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
Charles Brockden Brown

Courtesy of the
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Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
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Bill. Bryson

Robert Cowen

John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Thomas Bulfinch

John Bunyan

Edmund Burke

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Samuel Butler

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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Benvenuto Cellini

Bennett Cerf

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Anton Chekhov

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G. K. Chesterton

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Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia

Agatha Christie

Sir Winston Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)

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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Sharon Creech

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)
David Damrosch

R. H. Dana Jr.

Jenny Davidson

Ted Dekker


Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Reader's Digest Editors

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

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Gustave Dore

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Feodor Dostoevsky

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elke Wetzig, 1989

Alexandre Dumas

Mark Dunn

Lord Dunsany

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

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

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T. S. Eliot

Eleanor Estes

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Stephen Evans

Image by Avonlee Photography
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Christine Fletcher

Photo by Kristin Zabawa
Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Kathryn Forbes

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Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Anatole France

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Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
Gustav Frenssen

Photo by o.Ang. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv 118535269)
Max Frisch

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Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of Congress
Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
John Lewis Gaddis

Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
W. S Gilbert

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William Goldman

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Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Myrna Grant

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Jakob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

phosphorescent
Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Edward Everett Hale

1905 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-99518)
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy

O. Henry

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G. A. Henty

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James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
James Hilton

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Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Homer

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

Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Photographer unknown

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
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Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Albino Luciani

Photo by user Lupe.tere / Wikimedia Commons.
Uwe Johnson

Uwe Johnson (center). (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P057015)
Ollie Johnston

Ollie Johnston running his backyard train ~ Photo by J. E. Nystrom, 1993
James Joyce

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

George S. Kaufman

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Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Steven Kellogg

Frank Kermode

Jean Kerr

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Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Rudyard Kipling

Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Louis Kronenberger

Selma Lagerlof

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Anne Lamott

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Ring Lardner

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-03879)
(cropped)

Steve Lawhead

Jerome Lawrence

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

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury

C. S. Lewis

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Jack London

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


George MacDonald

Used by permission of
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Niccolo Machiavelli


Helen MacInnes

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Thomas Mann

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Peter Marshall

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Ngaio Marsh

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Robert McCrum


Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Arthur Miller

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Calvin Miller


A. A. Milne

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Frank B. Minirth

Used by permission of
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L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
St. Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Lady Morgan

Christopher Morley

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Farley Mowat

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wikipedia Commons.
Ogden Nash

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

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Patrick Ness

Alfred Neumann

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

Brady-Handy Collection, Library of Congress
Sterling North

Photo by C.E. Olson
This image appears courtesy of the Sterling North Society of Edgerton, Wisconsin.
Sharyn November

Flickr user jessamyn
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Scott O'Dell

E. Phillips Oppenheim

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hans H. Orberg

Wikimedia Commons

Emmuska Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Dorothy Parker

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
Don Piper

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Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Jane Porter

Jane Porter (1776-1850) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienChaim Potok


Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Adam Rex

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Quentin James Reynolds

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Howard Rheingold

Joi Ito
Scott Rice

Photo by Richard B. Ressman
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Marilynne Robinson

Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Leland Ryken

Used by permission of
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Miguel De Cervantes

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Rafael Sabatini

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Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Felix Salten


Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Friedrich Schiller

Sara K Schneider

Mitchell Schneider
Bruno Schulz

Wikimedia Commons. Photograph from headstone.
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Walter (Sir) Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia

Margery Sharp

Bernard Shaw

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

Wikipedia Image
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Sophocles

Edmund Spenser

Johanna Spyri

Vincent Starrett

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr

Alfred Tennyson


Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

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


James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Uwe Timm

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Maria Augusta Trapp

Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
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Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia

Sigrid Undset

Various

G. Verdi

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Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

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

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Gertrude Warner Chandler

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson

Evelyn Waugh

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

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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Ysabeau S. Wilce

Photograph by Ellen Datlow

Oscar Wilde

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

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Charles Williams


Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio

P. G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
Yevgeny Zamyatin

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