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Anon

Paperback Pirate
Edward Abbey

Dan Abnett

Added by Kindermord.
Douglas Adams

Aeschylus

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Samantha Alexander

Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
William C Anderson

Donna Andrews

Photo by Mary A. Dusing
Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Ludovico Ariosto

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

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Neal Asher

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
David Attenborough

Shojo
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Najmieh Batmanglij


Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Brian Michael Bendis

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
Holly Black

Susan J. Blackmore

From
Wikipedia. Photo of Susan Blackmore. Released by Blackmore after a personal request to her for a public domain photo.
Raymond Blanc

LE MANOIR AUX QUAT' SAISONS
Jorge Luis Borges

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Dale Brown

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Ed Brubaker

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton Lytton

From Wikipedia
James Burke

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jim Butcher

Andrew M. Butler

James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Julius Caesar

public domain
Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Sarah Caudwell

John Burlinson
Benvenuto Cellini

C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
G. K. Chesterton

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Arthur C. Clark

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

Wikipedia
John Clute

Elze Hamilton
Jack Cohen

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Nancy A. Collins

Flickr user infrogmation
Peter Connolly

Christodouloug534
Darwyn Cooke

Paul Cornell

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley

David Crystal

Barry Cunliffe

Julie E. Czerneda

TruAspect Photography
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Peter David

Avram Davidson

Mary Janice Davidson

copyright MJ Alonghi
Russell T. Davies

Tony Hassall
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent

Richard Dawkins

Christopher G Street, March 2005
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
L Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
August Derleth

Jared Diamond

Peter Dickinson

Ivan Helmer
Philip K. Dick

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Reader's Digest

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

Source: "Canada," by Agnes C. Laut
(Boston, 1909)
(Project Gutenberg)

Terry Dowling

Allen Drury

Portrait of Allen Drury ~ U.S. Senate Art & History
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Gerald Durrell

Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
T. S Eliot

Jane Espenson

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2006
John Evelyn

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

Fordan
Ian Fleming

Dario Fo


John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
R.A. Fortey

Catherine Eldridge
Christopher Fowler

Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Francis Dick

Sir James George Frazer

R Austin Freeman

R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943)
(AP Watt)
Neil Gaiman

Helen Louise Gardner

John Burlinson
Jonathan Gash

William Gibson

Arthur De Gobineau

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

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

from Wikipedia
Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Alan Grant

User:Vizjim
Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Joseph Green

Colin Greenland

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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.)
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
B.H.Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
Carolyn G. Hart

Library of Congress
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Marc Hauser

Photo by Dan Lurie / Flickr
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
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)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
David Hewson

Photo by Mark Bothwell
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
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.
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Peter Jackson

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of director Peter Jackson, not software writer Peter Jackson.
Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)P.D. James

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

Quintin Jardine

Wikipedia - Uploaded by the author himself
Henry Jenkins

Joi Ito
Geoff Johns

Geoff Johns Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Bruce Jones

Photo by Bruce Jones
Stephen Jones

Catriona Sparks
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
John Keats

Elmer Kelton

Credit:Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Rudyard Kipling

Alma Johanna Koenig

Atelier d'Ora-Benda, 19 April 1929 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienMichael Kurland

Photo by Burser
Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz

Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
David Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
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
Donna Leon

Gail Carson Levine

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C. S. Lewis

Livy

from Wikipedia
Jeph Loeb

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Federico Garcia Lorca

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Titus Lucretius Carus

Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
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

Ken MacLeod

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Ngaio Marsh

Martial

From Wikipedia
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
A. E. W. Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
Kari Maund

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Paul McAuley

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Sharyn McCrumb

Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Sean McMullen

John Meaney

Used with permission
Farah Mendlesohn

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Mark Millar

Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
A A Milne

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

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Fidelis Morgan

fidelismorgan.com
Marc Morris

Grant Morrison

Kate Mosse

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Beverley Nichols

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

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Diana Norman

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJames O'Barr

Luigi Novi
Dennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
Greg Pak

Credit: Pinguino k (Flickr user),
New York Comic Con, 2007
Alexei Panshin

Alexei Panshin
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Plutarch

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Polybius

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Robert Reed

Kathy Reichs

Mary Renault

Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
James Robinson

DC Universe panel, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Peter Robinson

Justina Robson

Peter Rowland

J.K. Rowling

Greg Rucka

Signing at DC Comics booth, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Gary Russell

Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Steven Savile

Mari Adkins, June 26, 2006
John Scalzi

Sir Walter Scott

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

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Dan Simmons

Gail Simone

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Walter Simonson

Luigi Novi
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Thorne Smith

George Smoot

Photo by Wikipedia User SCZenz
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
James Steranko

K72ndst
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rebecca Stott

Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Charles Stross

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Cornelius Tacitus

Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Thucydides

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

Keith Topping

P.L. Travers

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

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Various

Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Matt Wagner

From Matt Wagner
Mark Waid

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Edgar Wallace

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

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
Jo Walton

Andrew Ward

Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Colin Watson

John Burlinson
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Joss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
Walt Whitman

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

(c) Kate Eshelby, 2007, courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Marv Wolfman

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Xenophon

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

Wolfgang Sauber

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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