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John Ajvide Lindqvist

Brian Wilson Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Anonymous

Michael Arnzen

photo (c) 2005 by Renate Muller, used with permission

Antonin Artaud

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
George Beahm

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
T. C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Ray Bradbury

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Andre Breton

Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Louise Brooks

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

Ed Brubaker

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Anthony Burgess


James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
David Byrne

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
James M. Cain

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

Ramsey Campbell (editor)

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)
Fritjof Capra

David Carradine

Photo credit: Jano Rohleder, in Münster, Germany, April 10, 2005

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Cecil Castellucci

Photo by Craig Wadlin
Nick Cave

Credit: Alex Ex (Wikipedia), 2006, Mainz, Germany
Michael Chabon (editor)

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Robert W. Chambers

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

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Jean Cocteau

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

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Loren Coleman

Nancy A. Collins

Flickr user infrogmation
Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper

Microsoft Corporation

Derrick CoetzeeBuilding 17 on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, USA
Julio Cortazar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
F. Marion Crawford

Credit: Zaida Ben-Yusuf, circa 1900
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83072)
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)
Salvador Dali

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

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Ram Dass

Kathleen Murphy
Peter David

Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Daniel Odier

Daniel Odier
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
James Dickey

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen R. Donaldson

J.P. Donleavy

Fyodor M. Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Marcel Duchamp

Leon Hartt, Marcel Duchamp (center), and Mrs. Hartt: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-63273)
Alexandre Dumas

Lord Dunsany

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Will Eisner

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Harlan Ellison

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Steve Englehart

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Dennis Etchison (editor)

Nihonjoe
Jules Feiffer

Dick DeMarsico (1958) Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Neil Gaiman (editor)

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Steve Gerber

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
H. R. Giger

JaSunni
Terry Gilliam

Sweden, March 1985,
promoting 'Brazi"
(Credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)

Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Ray Harryhausen

San Diego Comic-Con 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganDavid G. Hartwell (editor)

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
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.
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
James Hilton

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Douglas Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group

Robert E. Howard

Charlie Huston

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Alfred Jarry

findagrave.com
David Joachim

Kurt Wilson
Stephen Jones (editor)

Catriona Sparks
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
James Joyce

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

RJ Shaughnessy
Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Walt Kelly

Courtesy of Michael Barrier
Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Robert Kirkman

Ellen Klages

Paul Klee

John Klima

Mary Klima
Dean Koontz

Jerzy Kosinski

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Langenscheidt

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

Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Comte De Lautreamont

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
Stan Lee

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.

Fritz Leiber

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

M. G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Jack London

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


H P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Patricia Maclachlan

Library of Congress
The Usual Gang of Idiots

beneneuman and the staff of Mad Magazine.
photo by
beneneuman on Flickr
Paul Malmont

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Keith Miles

Simon Whitfield

George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Groucho Marx

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

from Wikipedia

Richard Matheson

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Winsor McCay

1906
Tim McCreight

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
China Mieville

Andrew Migliore

Wikipedia
Mike Mignola

Credit: SolGrundy (Flickr user), 2006
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)
Joan Miro

Joan Miró, 1935. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-42511)
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
David Morrell

Grant Morrison

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ogden Nash

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michael J. Nelson (editor)

San Diego Comic-Con 2007, photo by Derek Springer
Annalee Newitz

Joi Ito
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Trinka Hakes Noble

William F. Nolan

Photo by Jason Brock - 2006
Laurie Notaro

Photo by Shelley Spray
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
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/
Jed Perl

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Joshua Piven

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

Graham Rawle

Man Ray

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-63265 DLC
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Don Rosa

Credit: J-E Nyström, 1999, Helsinki
Marquis 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)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J. D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre


David J. Schow

Damon D'Amato - Wikimedia Commons
Jon Scieszka

Amy Sedaris

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)

Maurice Sendak

Rod Serling

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation
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 ArtSir Ernest Shackleton

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia

Michael Shea

F. R. R. Mallory
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Robert Silverberg (editor)

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein


Dan Simmons

Jeff Smith

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

Wendy Spero

Photo by Brian Friedman
Art Spiegelman (editor)

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
William Olaf Stapledon

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)
Saul Steinberg

Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.

Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Clark Terry

Tom Marcello, July 6, 1976
Hunter S. Thompson


Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
J.R.R. Tolkien

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Public domain (Wikipedia Commons)
Dalton Trumbo

Thomas Tryon

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Laozi

Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Various

Jhonen Vasquez

SLG signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Karl Edward Wagner (editor)

Copyright © Beth Gwinn
Matt Wagner

From Matt Wagner
David Foster Wallace

Sean Wallace

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Andy Warhol


John Waters

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Wellington

Photo by the author.
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Nathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Nancy Willard

2004 Eric Lindbloom
Jack Williamson

Bill Willingham

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Gahan Wilson (editor)

Gahan Wilson photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Robert Anton Wilson

Flickr user dbuk2
Marv Wolfman

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Alex Haley & Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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