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Kathy Acker

Jill Posener
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
James L. Adams

Stanford University Faculty Page
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Monica Ali

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Isabel Allende

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Dorothy Allison

Natalie Angier

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Hannah Arendt

Pietro Aretino

Source: "Bibliothek des allgemeinen
und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
W. Hugh Auden

Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Alessandro Barbero

Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Simone de Beauvoir

Stefano Benni

Anneli Salo
Heinrich Boll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Jorge L. Borges

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.C. Boyle

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Ray Bradbury

Ori Brafman

Josyn Herce
Dan Brown

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Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov

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Lily Burana

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A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Julia Cameron

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Andrea Camilleri

Elias Canetti

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Nick Cave

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
Jonathan Coe

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Patricia D. Cornwell

Jim Crace

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Junot Díaz

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Andrea De Carlo

www.andreadecarlo.com
Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

David Deutsch

Jared Diamond

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Umberto Eco

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Deborah Eisenberg

MATHIEU BOURGOIS
Nathan Englander

Elena Seibert
Hans M. Enzensberger

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Timothy Ferriss

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

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Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
Jonathan Franzen

Thomas Friedman

Charles Haynes
Carlos Fuentes

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Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant
Elizabeth Gilbert

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Seth Godin

Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

David Grossman

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David Guterson

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Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
Tim Harford

Photo by Fran Monks
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Amy Hempel

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
John Irving

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
B. K. S. Iyengar

Mutt Lunker
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Maxim Jakubowski

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksSteven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Franz Kafka

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Sue Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Jerzy N. Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski, Miami Book Fair International, 1985, by "MDCArchives" (Wikimedia Commons)
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
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Steven E. Landsburg

Author
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Doris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Marina Lewycka

Howard P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lukeman Noah

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
John Maeda

Robert Scoble
David H. Maister

© 2006 David Maister
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Richard Matheson

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McWhorter

China Mieville

Catherine Millet

Rohinton Mistry

Rick Moody

Michael Moore, 1954 Apr. 23-

Wikimedia Commons
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

(cc) Michael Sauers, 2006
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Salvatore Niffoi

Salvatore Niffoi, 2008
Anaïs Nin

Amélie Nothomb

Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Geoff Nunberg

Photo by Joseph Lorenzo Hall (Wikipedia)
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Marisha Pessl

DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sylvia Plath

Platone

Roman copy after Greek original by Silanion, 2nd cent.
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2007
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Karl R. Popper

William Poundstone

Hatchette Book Group USA
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Thomas Pynchon

James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Tom Robbins

Charlotte Roche

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Arundhati Roy

Matt Ruff

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Niranjanananda Swami

Satyananda Yoga Academy Australia http://www.satyananda.net
Jean-Paul Sartre

Dan Savage

Tiziano Scarpa

Peter Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
Winfried Georg Sebald

John Burlinson
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
M. P. Shiel

Clay Shirky

"Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media."
Lionel Shriver

Nevil Shute

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

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

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Tom Rob Smith

Zadie Smith

Susan Sontag

John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Elizabeth Strout

Jerry Bauer
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gay Talese

© Joyce Tenneson
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Twyla Tharp

2004 Medalist Twyla Tharp with NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and National Council on the Arts member Mary Costa.
Photo by Victoria Hutter.
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
John Kennedy Toole

John Updike

Martha Updike
Fred Vargas

Editions Viviane Hamy
Kurt Vonnegut

David Foster Wallace

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E.B. White

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

from Wikipedia
Marianne Williamson

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Naomi Wolf

Abraham Yehoshua

Yuma
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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