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Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Dorothy Allison

Aristotle

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

Jerry Bauer
Arrian

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Pat Barker

J. M. Barrie

Roland Barthes

Simone De Beauvoir

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
W. E. B. DuBois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Ray Bradbury

Marion Bradley

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Anthony Burgess

Frances Burney

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Orson Scott Card

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

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

Novelists Robin Epstein and Bridie Clark (on right)
meet at the 2006GalleyCat holiday party
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganJoseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Peter David

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Cathy Day

Cathy Day
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Charles Dickens

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
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
Olaudah Equiano

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Stanley Fish

Courtesy of Stanley Fish
Janet Fitch

Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Neil Gaiman

Rudolph W. Giuliani

Wikimedia Commons (cropped)
Gary Goldschneider

Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
R. S. Gwynn

Don Usner
Uta Hagen

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

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Martin Heidegger

Richard Helms

CIA Director Richard Helms (left) and Amb. Walworth Barbour at meeting in the Cabinet Room, White House, Mar. 27, 1968. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto
Ernest Hemingway

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

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henrik Ibsen

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

Henry James

David H. Jones

photograph by LeMar Millett
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Senate Historical Office
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
C. S. Lewis

Matthew Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Mark Leyner

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

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
John Milton

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

Mary Ann Mitchell

Courtesy of the author.
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Farley Mowat

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Elliot Perlman

Linda H. Peterson

Michael Marsland
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Robert Polito

Robert Polito (1951- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Katherine An Porter

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupˆada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ayn Rand

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Ruth Rymer

J. D. Salinger

R.A. Salvatore

Jean Paul Sarte

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Paul Sloane

National Geographic Society (U. S.) Special Publications Division

Edmund Spencer

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)
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Whitley Strieber

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Time-Life Books

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

L.N. Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Various

Virgil

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

Derek Walcott with Nigel Beale. Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr.
David Foster Wallace

Horace Walpole

Booker T. Washington

1911 photograph (cropped)
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Ric Wasley

James D. Watson

Wikipedia
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Walt Whitman

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

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

Wikipedia
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Dean Young

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