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R. Tucker Abbott

Photo Courtesy of The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
Forrest J. Ackerman

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826)
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart
(Wikipedia)
Aeschylus

A.N. Afanas'ev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
HANS ANDERSON

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Lynn Andrews

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anonymous

APULEIUS; Translated By Robert Graves

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Arrian

Peter Christen Asbjornsen

wikimedia commons
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Saint Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Christina Baldwin

Robert Ballard

http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/oceanage/05ballard/welcome.html
S Baring-Gould

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Sir John Barrow

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
Dave Barry

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

L Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Melody Beattie

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bede

Edward Bellamy

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

Eye on Books
Thomas Berger

Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Raymond Buckland

Buddha

Buddhist Temple, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photo by McKay Savage / Flickr.
Thomas Bulfinch

Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Julius Caesar

public domain
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph (ed.) Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Irene Chalmers

The Culinary Institute of America
Graham Chapman

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Giuseppina Cirincione

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Paulo Coelho

Alan H. Cohen

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Trevor Corson

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Malcolm Cowley

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
Aleister Crowley

Barry Cunliffe

Edward S. Curtis

Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (Wikimedia Commons)
Clive Cussler

Salvador Dali

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

Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Greg Dening

Courtesy of Greg Dening.
Charles 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
John Donne

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

Marjorie Stoneman Douglas from Friends of the Everglades
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Sarah Dunant

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Umberto Eco

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alexander Eliot

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Euripides

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

Jenny Black
William Faulkner

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

Courtesy of David Hackett Fischer
Saint Francis of Assisi

Stigmatisation of St. Francis by El Greco, 1585.
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Paul Gauguin

from Wikipedia
Charles Ghigna

William Gibson

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Nikki Giovanni

George Gissing

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

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Linda Greenlaw

Michael Green

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.)
Michael Gruber

Ernesto Che Guevara

Alberto Korda
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
Thich Nhat Hanh

Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Seamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tony Hillerman

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Ignatius of Loyola

wikimedia commons
Adomnan of Iona

Scenes from Adomnan's Life of St. Columba. Image from the Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1042 (A size))
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Jalal Al-Din Rumi

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
George Payne Rainsford James

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection
Jean de Joinville

James Joyce

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

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
James Keenan

Luigi Novi
Thomas A Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Raymond Khoury

Dean King

Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Manuel Komroff

Manuel Komroff, 1937. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Dean Koontz

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Harvard Lampoon

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

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

Roseanne Olson
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Titus Livius Livy

from Wikipedia
Lucretius

Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
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

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Richard Matheson

Victor H. Matthews

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.)
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Russell Means

Photo by Naomi Archer
Brad Meltzer

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Giles Milton

John; Introduction By Cleanth Brooks Milton

Stephen Mitchell

Photo credit: John D. Fellers (courtesy of the author)
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienThomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Jan Morris

Kate Mosse

Hugo Munsterberg

Hugo Münsterberg (1863–1916): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-02822)
(cropped)
British Museum

The British Museum
(doesn't *look* like an author, does it?)
William Tyler Olcott

The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Maurice O'Sullivan

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles Panati

Eric PARTRIDGE

G88keeper
Ellen Rimbauer

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Christine de Pisan

from Wikipedia
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Piers Paul Read

Kathy Reichs

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Riley James Whitcomb

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
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)
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Theodore Roosevelt

Donald Rumbelow

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

into. by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
SARK

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster Building, New York, May 2007, photo by Lampbane
Walter Scott

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

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
David W. Shaw

Photographed by Elizabeth A. Shaw
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
Mark Spragg

2004 Virginia Spragg
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tacitus

Robert Tallant

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

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

P. L. Travers

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

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Various

Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro). Translated By J. W. Mackail

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

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Anthony. Wagner

Sir Anthony Richard Wagner in 1952. This image was taken while Wagner was Richmond Herald of Arms. This image is from the personal collection of English Wikipedia user ReddyRov and he has released it into the Public Domain.
Michael Wallis

Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Alice Waters

Taken by Lilithcat
Orson Welles

Description: Orson Welles, March 1, 1937
Photographer: Carl Van Vechten
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-119765
Walt Whitman

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

Lisa Wingate

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.)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Xenophon

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

Photo by Charles Lucke
Jane Yolen

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Majonaise
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge

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.)
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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