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Karen Abbott

Photo by Gilbert King
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Henry Adams

Sherman Alexie

Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Rose Levy Beranbaum

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Patrick Bishop

Ian Jones
Marlena de Blasi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
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)
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Dee Brown

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Jan Harold Brunvand

copyright Jan Harold Brunvand (used with permission)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Willa Cather

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

Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Richard Cohen

British Veterens Fencing
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
DON DELILLO

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E. L. DOCTROW

Anna Apostolou

D. J. Donaldson

Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Sarah Dunant

Will Durant

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
John T. Edge

photo by Kyle Hood
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
James Elkins

Ralph Ellison

Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Howard Fast

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Patricia Finney

Cameracraft
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Bernard Goldberg

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Allan Gurganus

Hella S. Haasse

Photo by Chris van Houts
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

Roger Ericson
David Halberstam

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Robert Harris

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Marcella Hazan

courtesy of Giuliano Hazan
William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
J. C. Herz

Photo by James Duncan Davidson
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Jack Higgins

Tony Hillerman

Dorothy Hoobler

Courtesy of Hahchette Book Group
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Jane Jacobs

Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Sebastian Junger

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
MacKinlay Kantor

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117691
Stanley Karnow

Credit: Linda A. Cicero/Stanford News Service (Stanford University)
Ken Kesey

Ross King

W.P. Kinsella

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
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
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Emeril Lagasse

(by Spc. Leah R. Burton)
Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse signs his cookbooks and interacts with fans during a book signing at the Fort Lewis, Washington.
(www4.army.mil)
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
GUISEPPE DI LAMPEDUSA

Wikimedia Commons
Anna Lanyon

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Harper Lee

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

Courtesy of Columbia University.
Sinclair Lewis

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Henry Wadsworth edited by Lewiton Longfellow, Mina

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

Photo created by NASA
Niccolo Machiavelli

Archibald MacLeish

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Colleen McCullough

James M. McPherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Golda Meir

James A. Michener

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Giles Milton

Roy Moore

Jan Morris

Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
John Mortimer

Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jennifer Niven

Charles Nordhoff

from a family photo from the 1870,s
Philip Norman

Jessica Norman
Stewart O'Nan

P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Daryl N Long
Malika Oufkir

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Sara Paretsky

David Levin Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Anne Perry

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Don Piper

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.)
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Plunkett J.

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Mary Renault

Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J. K. Rowling

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Tim Russert

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Amy Sedaris

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Beppe Severgnini

Davide Schenetti (Wikimedia Commons)
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sidney Sheldon

Sue Shephard

Photograph by Chris Rydlewski
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Georges Simenon

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

Elena Seibert
Wilbur Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Tom Standage

Judah Passow/Network Photographers
John Steinbeck

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

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

George E. Stuart at the site of Palenque
Photo by Melinda Y. Stuart
J M Synge

From Wikipedia
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Kennedy Toole

Calvin Trillin

Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark J. Twain

from Wikipedia
Paco Underhill

Photograph by Wyatt Counts
Robert Utley

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Tom Vanderbilt

© Kate Burton
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Margaret Visser

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Patricia Volk

P. Blitzer
Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller
Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James Webb

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Alan Weisman

Eudora Welty

Irving Werstein

Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Thornton Wilder

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
George F. Will

Photo by Scott Ableman
Kathleen Winsor

Tom Wolfe

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
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