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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Edward Albee

Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa M. Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Timothy Garton Ash

Carl-Johan Sveningsson
Helen Ashton

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

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Karl Baedeker

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Barker Cicely Mary

Roland Barthes

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
Sylvia Beach

Sylvia Beach (7 September 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSamuel Beckett

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
John Berendt

Eye on Books
David K. Bernard

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
David Bevington

William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Marlena De Blasi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
M.E. Braddon

Raymond Briggs

Anne Bronte

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
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)
James Brown

James Brown (Singer) ~ Photo by Flickr User David Washington, DC
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Edmund Burke

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

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord George Gordon Byron

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Paulo Coelho

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJoseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Charles Darwin

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

Credit: Alan Light, 2004, Los Angeles,
Oprah Winfrey's birthday party
Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Reader's Digest Association

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

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Celine Dion

Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
John Donne

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

Quiz show "21" host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on/photo by Orlando Fernandez: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)(LC-USZ62-126813)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Drinkwater

Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

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

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles W. (Ed.) Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

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

Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressJostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Harley Granville-Barker

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

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
H.Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Adam Hart-Davis

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

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)
Lauren Henderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Christopher Hibbert

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
Anthony Holden

Homer

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

Jerry Bauer
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Samuel P. Huntington

Peter Lauth / World Economic Forum
Henrik Ibsen

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John R. Kohlenberger III

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Holbrook Jackson

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-105776)
(cropped)
Henry James

Wikipedia
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Colin Jones

James Joyce

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

Jerry Bauer
John Keats

Caroline Kennedy

Pete Souza
Jack Kerouac

Ross King

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
Harper Lee

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

from Wikipedia
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.S. Lewis

Bodleian Library

Bodleian Library, Oxford. Photo by Laurent / Flickr.
Penelope Lively

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Susan Herrmann Loomis

Niccolo Machiavelli

Rory MacLean

T.R. Malthus

David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
Walter De La Mare

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

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Richard Matheson

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne Du Maurier

Frank McCourt

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Alister E. McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Erin McHugh

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Louis Menand

© Joe Tabacca
Arthur Miller

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

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

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

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Jan Morris

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Audrey Niffenegger

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

George Orwell

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

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Pepys

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

Plato

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

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Associated Press

(Old) AP Building, New York. Photo by Alterego / Wikimedia Commons
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Thomas Pynchon

Anna Quindlen

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Julia Reed

John Burlinson, 2008.
Samuel Richardson

Chris Rohmann

J.K. Rowling

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
David Scott

Astronaut David R. Scott (Photo created by NASA)
Sir Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper.
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Betty Smith

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

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Zadie Smith

Sophocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
James Strong

James Strong (1822-1894)
Photograph dated circa 1855-1865.
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Alfred Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

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

Poems, 1917
Henry David Thoreau

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

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
The New York Times

Robert Scoble
L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
Claire Tomalin

Michael Frayn
Rose Tremain

Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Louis Untermeyer

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

Voltaire

Horace Walpole

Jill Paton Walsh

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Tracey Nolan
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Edmund White

Walt Whitman

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

Elena Seibert
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Tennessee Williams

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

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

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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