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Edward Abbey

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Aleksandr Afanasev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Sherman Alexie

Isabel Allende

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

Stephen Ambrose

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Linda Berdoll

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Anne Brontë


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
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

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

William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Eric Carle

Lewis Carroll

P. C. Cast

P. C Cast
Willa Cather

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

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

Anton Chekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke

Paulo Coelho

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Peter David

Claude Debussy

Photograph by Nadar
Don DeLillo

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E.L. DOCTOROW

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

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

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo

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

E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Hope Franklin

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Robert Frost

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Neil Gaiman

Eduardo Galeano

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Christopher Golden

William Golding

Peter J. Gomes

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
Brian Greene

Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemmingway

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)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Tanya Huff

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
Peter James

Imamu Amiri Baraka

Library of Congress
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Jack Kerouac

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Stephen King

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

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Joseph Wood KRUTCH

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

Selma Lagerlof

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

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

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
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
C.S Lewis

Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Niccolo Machiavelli

David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson McCullers

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

Natalia Wisdom
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Joe Meno

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Arthur Miller

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

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Mary Anne Mohanraj

Photo by Kam McGowan
Moliere

Wikipédia France
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf

Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Vladimir Nabokov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Friedrich; Kauffmann Nietzsche, Walter (translator)

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Christiane Northrup

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flannery O'Connor

Frank O'Hara

Photo © Gianni Bates
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
John Perkins

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Francine Prose

Thomas Pynchon

Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Sheri Reynolds

sherireynolds.com

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Tom Robbins

James M. Robinson

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Marquis (D.A.F.) De Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)

Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Shel Silverstein

Betty Smith

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

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

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Arnold J Toynbee

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Various

Jhonen Vasquez

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

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Gerald Robert Vizenor

Public Domain
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Joss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
E. 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)
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Herman Wouk

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

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Richard Zacks

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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