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Hank Aaron

Wikimedia Commons (Photo by White House Photographers)
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Henry Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Theodor W. Adorno

James Agee

Boris Akunin

Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Sherman Alexie

Nelson Algren

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sparky Anderson

President George W. Bush chats with Hall of Famer’s Sparky Anderson, left, and Yogi Berra in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 30, 2001.
WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY PAUL MORSE
(whitehouse.gov)
Roy Chapman Andrews

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-50488)
Donald Antrim

Antonio Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Aharon Appelfeld

Frederic Brenner
Reinaldo Arenas

Hannah Arendt

Aristotle

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

World Telegram & Sun photo, 1953 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-127236)
Jake Arnott

www.chrismsaunders.com
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Marcus Aurelius

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
J.L. Austin

Brian Azzarello

Chris Bachelder

Photo by Jenn Habel
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Pat Barker

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Max Barry

© dejahthoris : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Max_Barry_1.JPG
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Charles Baxter

George Beahm

Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Ann Beattie

MDCarchives
Samuel Beckett

Martyn Bedford

Photo by Claire McNamee
Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Lauren Belfer

Jennifer Belle

Saul Bellow

William Rose Benet

Luis Quintanilla
Gregory Benford

Walter Benjamin

Ronan Bennett

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henri Bergson

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
John Bierman

Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Franz Boas

In collection of American Philosophical Society, F8.1.16.
Eric Bogosian

Credit: David Shankbone, April 25, 2007
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
James Boswell

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Jim Bouton

jimbouton.com
Ben Bova

Jane Auer Bowles

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, January 31, 1951
Paul Bowles

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Susie Bright

David Brin

By R. Feist
Andre Philippus Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Harold Brodkey

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

Photograph by James Hamilton
Max Brooks

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mark Budz

Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Lily Burana

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
John Burdett

Jerry Bauer
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)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Richard F. Burton

Frederick Busch

Eye on Books
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Richard Evelyn Byrd

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-32880)
James Cain

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

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Karel Capek

Truman Capote

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

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
David Carkeet

www.geocities.com/davidcarkeet/
Thomas Carlyle

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

Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John le Carre

Justin Cartwright

Rufus.cartwright
Willa Cather

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

Bennett Cerf (editor)

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Stepan Chapman

Helsinki, Finland, 2006. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Paddy Chayefsky

World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1958 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121944)
John Cheever

Anton Chekhov

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

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

© 2004 Tate Photography
Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen on the left. Photo by Rita Molnar, Cannes Film Festival 2001
J.M. Coetzee

Colette

from Wikipedia
Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper

T. Cooper

My image taken at Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
Robert Coover

Ginnetta Correli

Philip Corso

Philip J. Corso (right) U.S. Army, 1945 (Wikimedia Commons)
Julio Cort-Azar

Courtesy Wikipedia; photo by Sara Facio.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Jim Crace

Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Wes Craven

Geoffrey Chandler
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)
Peter David

Robertson Davies

Kathryn Davis

Emma Dodge Hanson photgraphy.
There is no permission to reproduce.
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Greg Dening

Courtesy of Greg Dening.
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Alan M. Dershowitz

René Descartes

from Wikipedia
John Dewey

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

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

James Dickey

Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Stephen Dobyns

J.P. Dunleavy

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Theodore Dreiser

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

Eye on Books
Will Durant

Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Bob Dylan

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

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

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Albert Einstein

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

Chris Elliott (1960- )
Photo by Alan Light, September 17, 1989, 41st Emmy Awards
(Flickr attribution license)
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
Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Steve Erickson

Kelley Eskridge

Photo by Nicola Griffith
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Mark Feeney

John Feinstein

Joshua Ferris

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Timothy Findley

Elisabeth Feryn
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Erroll Flynn

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-26017)
(cropped)
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E. M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

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

John Fowles

Sir John Franklin

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

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

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Alexander Frater

Anne Miller
Patrick French

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Erich Fromm

Photographer: Liss Goldring, © Erich Fromm Estate
Francis Fukuyama

Allen and Unwin
R. Buckminster Fuller

William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Neil Gaiman

John Kenneth Galbraith

Roydon Dixon
Alex Garland

Jose Ortega y Gassett

William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
David Gates

Theophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Dagoberto Gilb

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
C. S. Godshalk

John Madere
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Maxim Gorky

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

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Henry Green

Michelle Green

Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Olga Grushin

Ursula K. LeGuin

James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganLars Gustafsson

Suz
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
David Halberstam

Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
James Hall

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Heinrich Harrer

Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Sir Paul Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Stephen William Hawking

from Wikipedia
S.I. Hayakawa

Wikipedia Commons (U.S. Congressional Photo)
William Hazlitt

engraving by John Hazlitt
Sven Hedin

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-17306)
Martin Heidegger

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

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

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)
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
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

James Hilton

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

Vera Jaffe
Alfred Hitchcock

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

from Wikipedia
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
A. M. Homes

Max Horkheimer

From
Wikipedia,
Horkheimer (front left), in 1965 at Heidelberg.
Nick Hornby

Michel Houellebecq

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Edmund Husserl

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Sir Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaKazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Uzodinma Iweala

Photo by user Jummai / Wikimedia Commons
Charles Jackson

Carl Van Vechten
Shirley Jackson

Bill James

Brita Meng Outzen
Boston Red Sox
Henry James

Wikipedia
Jenna Jameson

jerone 2
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksRussell James

William James

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

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in LegacyKarl Jaspers

Liz Jensen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mor Jokai

Photo taken in 2006 by user Csanády / Wikimedia Commons.
Adam Johnson

Chuck Jones

Photo by Alan Light, 1976 (Cropped/Wikipedia & Flickr)
James Joyce

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

Ernst Junger

Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Juris Jurjevics

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Franz Kafka

Roger Kahn

MDCarchives
Ken Kalfus

Hitomi Kanehara

Immanuel Kant

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Pagan Kennedy

Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
B. B. King

Stephen King

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

Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Robert Kirkman

Ivan Klima

Dean Koontz

Jerzy Kosinski

Tim Krabbe

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
Gary Krist

Photo by Bob Krist
Milan Kundera

Peter Kuper

Luigi Novi
Par Lagerkvist

Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
L. S. B Leakey

Tim Lebbon

promotional photo
Harper Lee

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

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Fritz Leiber

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

Michael Malyszyko
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Primo Levi

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Heather Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Rodolfo R. Llinas

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Gyorgy Lukacs

Alison Lurie

Photo by Edward Hower
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
ROSS MACDONALD

Charles MacKay

Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

David Maraniss

Herbert Marcuse

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Billy Martin

Judith Martin

Library of Congress
Bobbie Ann Mason

Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne Du Maurier

Andre Maurois

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

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Mike McAlary

Columbia University
Patrick Mccabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Charles Mccarry

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Tom McCarthy

Mathieu Bourgois
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
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Patrick Mcgrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Thomas McGuane

Audrey Hall
Jay Mcinerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
H.L. Mencken

George Meredith

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

Photo by Rul Xavier
Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Catherine Millet

John Stuart Mill

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

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Robinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin
Rick Moody

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Richard Morgan

Grant Morrison

Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Natsume Soseki

Bill Nelson

Wikimedia Commons (Official U.S. Senate Portrait)
Irene Nemirovsky

Leslie Nielsen

Photo by Alan Light
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Linda Nochlin

NYU Institute of Fine Arts
Robert Nozick

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Robert O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

John O'Hara

Stewart O'Nan

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Juan Carlos Onetti

George Orwell

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

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Tom Paine

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

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Charles Panati

Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin
Dorothy Parker

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

Blaise Pascal

Wikipedia
John Dos Passos

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Milorad Pavic

Iain Pears

Charles S. Peirce

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Elliot Perlman

Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Robert M. Pirsig

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

George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Melissa P.

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Robert Polito

Robert Polito (1951- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Karl R. Popper

Katherine Anne Porter

Joe Posnanski

Joe Posnanski (seated). Dave Hogg, July 20, 2007
Gerald L. Posner

Dawn Powell

Associated Press

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Oxford Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Michael Pye

Thomas Pynchon

Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Alissa Quart

Photo by Jordan Davis
Ayn Rand

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

Mariusz Kubik, photographer
Man Ray

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-63265 DLC
Robert Reed

Mary Renault

Rachel Resnick

Photo by Mark Hanauer
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Samuel Richardson

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienKim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Dennis Rodman

Flickr user huangweiqing
Charles Rosen

Courtesy of Indiana University
Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Joseph Roth

Jean Jacques (Cole Rousseau, G.D.H.)

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Douglas Rushkoff

KLRU's Engaging Speaker Series, April 2007, photo by Bruce Turner
Bertrand Russell

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

Photo by Matt Musselman
The 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

James Sallis

James Salter

© 2004 Lana Rys
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
William Saroyan

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Jean-Paul Sartre

John Ralston Saul

Sophie Boussols (France)
George Saunders

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Robert J. Sawyer

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Bernhard Schlink

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Eric Schlosser

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Arthur Schnitzler

Atelier Madame D'Ora (21 June 1915) / Photo ©
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Damon D'Amato - Wikimedia Commons
Budd Schulberg

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Martin Scorsese

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Robert Falcon Scott

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Hjalmar Soderberg

John R. Searle

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Art by Zero
Will Self

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Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir

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Dan Shaughnessy

Mary Shelley

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Dan Simmons

Simon Singh

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David R. Slavitt

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Martin Cruz Smith

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Zadie Smith

Daniel Handler

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
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Ron HoganArt Spiegelman

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W. Sturgeon
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Allen and Unwin Media Centre
W. M. Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
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Michael J. Balzano
Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
D. Henry Thoreau

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Meg Tilly

James Tiptree Jr.

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
Colm Toibin

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Voltaire

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Edith Wharton

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