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Diana Abu-Jaber

Scott Eason
Abigail Adams

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

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Madeleine Albright

from Wikipedia
Louisa May Alcott

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

Carrie Schechter
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
Mary Kay Andrews

HarperCollins
Anonymous

Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Russell Ash

Catherine Benson
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
St. Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
David Baldacci

Library of Congress
Sandra Balzo

James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Robert Barnard

Photograph by Noel Barnard
Allison Hoover Bartlett

A. Scott Berg

Jedediah Berry

Photo by Lucy Hamblin.
Claudia Bishop

Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
James Blake

Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Rhys Bowen

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 2/10/08, Glendale, AZ
C. J. Box

Alan Bradley

Lesa Holstine
Gyles Brandreth

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Don Bruns

Christopher Buckley

Christopher Taylor Buckley, son of William F. Buckley (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Dudley W. Buffa

credit Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Bunyan

Sir Richard Burton

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

Ethan Canin

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Lewis Carroll

Dan Chaon

photo by Philip Chaon
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Christopher Hirsheimer

Agatha Christie

Mary Jane Clark

Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Paulo Coelho

Jeffrey Cohen

Eve Cohen
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Trevor Corson

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Charles Darwin

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

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
DISNEY PRESS

E.L. Doctorow

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

John Dunning

Katie Dunning
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Mark Dunn

Selden Edwards

George Eliot

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

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
J.F. Englert

Susan Stava
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Jerrilyn Farmer

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
Gustave Flaubert

Gillian Flynn

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox with wife Tracy Pollen,
1988, 40th Emmy Awards
(Credit: Alan Light)
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Brian Freeman

Photo by Martin Hoffsten
Alan Furst

James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
William Gibson

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
Lewis L. Gould

Perseus Books Group
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Caroline Graham

Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Brothers Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Michael Gruber

Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alexander Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Goldie Hawn

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1989
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1989
Katharine Hepburn

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

Photo by Mark Bothwell
Homer

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

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Walter Isaacson

Photograph by Mary Pfaff
A. J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Ken Jennings

Whistling in the Dark
Peter Jennings

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Bruce Jones

Photo by Bruce Jones
James Joyce

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

Dan Kennedy

John Burlinson, Feb. 17, 2008
Edward M. Kennedy

Jonathon King

Susan Stocker
Rudyard Kipling

J.A. Konrath

Nicholas D. Kristof

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Caro Peacock

Laura Lippman

James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Livy

from Wikipedia
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography
Niccolo Machiavelli

Natalie MacLean

Ngaio Marsh

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Susan McBride

Photo by Suzy Gorman
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Rand McNally and Company

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
James A. Michener

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

Glaldys Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Vilhelm Moberg

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

Wikipédia France
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Barack Obama

Kenzaburo Oe

Katherine Hall Page

Thomas Paine

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

Randy Pausch
Iain Pears

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Twist Phelan

Christopher Phillips

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Camille Pissarro

Self-Portrait, 1873.
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Peggy Post

Emily Price Post, 1873-1960, photo c1912 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-62205)
Julie Powell

unknown
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Cokie Roberts

Peter Robinson

Fred Rogers

White House Photo by Susan Sterner
Edmond Rostard

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes

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

José Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Sir Walter Scott

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

Patricia Williams
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Aaron Shepard

Sketch by Toni Goffe, coloring by Angelo Lopez
Maria Shriver

California Office of the Governor
Karin Slaughter

Betty Smith

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

Les Standiford

Virginia Wells
Stegner Wallace

John Steinbeck

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

Andrea Stein
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Rick Steves

ricksteves.com
Kathryn Stockett

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

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

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWalt Whitman

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Tennessee Williams

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

I took this photo!
P. G. Wodehouse

Bob Woodward

W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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