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Nick Abadzis

Damian Cugley
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Dan Abnett

Added by Kindermord.
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Aeschylus

Madeleine Korbel Albright

from Wikipedia
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
David Allen

The David Allen Company
Sarah Addison Allen

L.Allen
Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Eric Alterman

Julia Alvarez

Jorge Amado

Fred Anderson

Photo by Lilithcat
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Hiroshige Andō

Posthumous memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Hannah Arendt

Aristophanes

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

wikimedia commons
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Natalie Babbitt

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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.
Joan Baez

Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug. 1963
Credit: US Information Agency
Baháʾuʾlláh

Russell Baker

Carl Barks

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1982. SDCC.
Simone De Beauvoir

Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Daniel Berrigan

Credit: Kevin Ksen, 2005, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Bertice Berry

Wendell Berry

Michael Bess

Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Richard Nelson Bolles

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jorge Luis Borges

Cynthia Bourgeault

Diane Walker
Ray Bradbury

Gillian Bradshaw

Taylor Branch

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Stewart Brand

Alan Brennert

Photo: Monica Schwartz
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
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
Robert Browning

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

Joi Ito
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Martin Buber

Marcus Buckingham

Photograph by Alex Berliner
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Edmund Burke

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Orson Scott Card

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carré

Lewis Carroll

Michael Casey

Photograph by Katherine Casey.
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Ann Charters

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Francis James Child

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Susanna Clarke

Linda Cobb

Esme Raji Codell

Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Gregory Corso

Noncorporeal
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bruce Coville

With permission from Bruce Coville.
David Crockett

Public domain (University of Texas at Austin)
E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
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)
Johnny Damon

Flickr user Ken N (cropped from original photo)
Richard Henry Dana

David Dark

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.)
Charles Darwin

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

Melvil Dewey

from Wikipedia
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Paul Dini

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con, photo by Lampbane
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Eamon Duffy

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Bob Dylan

Jonathan Edwards

from Wikipedia
Will Eisner

George Eliot

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

Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia
Eleanor Estes

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

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

flickr user sogroovynow
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Leslie Feinberg

R. Todd Felton

Betsy Archer
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Carrie Fisher

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

F. Scott (Francis 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

Richard J. Foster

Debra Frasier

Courtesy of Debra Frasier
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cornelia Caroline Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Neil Gaiman

Jack Gantos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Helen Louise Gardner

John Burlinson
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning
Nikki Giovanni

Gail Godwin

Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Susan Grant

Photo courtesy Waxcreative
Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Major-General U.S. Grant, etching from a photograph probably taken in 1863.
Thomas Gray

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

Graham Greene

John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Ursula K. Le Guin

Hafiz

Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century
David Hajdu

Michelle Heimerman
David Halberstam

Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Robert A. (Robert Anson) Heinlein

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

Gareth Hinds

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
David Hume

from Wikipedia
George G. Hunter, III

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Molly Ivins

Maulana Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Jalaluddin Rumi by "Nureddin". Wikimedia Commons.
Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksWilliam James

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

Library of Congress
Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Franz Kafka

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Immanuel Kant

Mary Karr

Carolyn Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Steven Kellogg

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Francis Scott Key

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Martin Luther King

Marion S. Trinkoso (1964)
Rudyard Kipling

Annette Curtis Klause

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
Ellyssa Kroski

Hans Küng

Wikimedia Commons
Peter Kuper

Luigi Novi
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
R. D. (Ronald David) Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Anne Lamott

Aaron Lansky

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Craig Lesley

http://www.craiglesley.com/media.php
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Vachel Lindsay

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Hendrick Willem Van Loon

H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Titus Lucretius Carus

Martin Luther

George MacDonald

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 MacNeil

T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Zedong Mao

from Wikipedia
Lisa Margonelli

John Burlinson
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Gabriel García Márquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Bobbie Ann Mason

W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer, journalist born 1955 (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Geraldine McCaughrean

William Holmes McGuffey

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
Joyce Meyer

Fern Michaels

Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
A.A. Milne

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

Henry Mintzberg

public domain, photo taken at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, May 2005 by Andreas Seidl
W. J. T. Mitchell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Hayao Miyazaki

Thomas Schulz
Rutu Modan

Georges Seguin
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Farley Mowat

Walter Dean Myers

Ted Naifeh

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2007
Robert Nichols

Frontispiece of the book, Ardours and Endurances, by Robert Nichols, 1917 edition
Trinka Hakes Noble

Julian of Norwich

Henri j. M. Nouwen

Images of Henri Nouwen at Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California courtesy of The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection,
Toronto, ON and the American Theological Library Association.
Barack Obama

Dennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
Suze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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
Robert B. Parker

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Susan Patron

Norman Vincent Peale

Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Tom Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Ann Petry

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

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsPlato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Peggy Post

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Helen Prejean

Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Giacomo Puccini

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
François Rabelais

Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner, SJ, 1975. Image © Agenzia Fides.
C. (Chakravarti) Rajagopalachari

Jane Ray

John Reed

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Kenneth Rexroth

Cokie Roberts

Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Marilynne Robinson

frere Roger

Photo credit: Michael König, December 30, 1991
Carl R. Rogers

Natalie Rogers
Gioacchino Rossini

Francesco Hayez, 1870
Theodore Roszak

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Greg Rucka

Signing at DC Comics booth, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Ruth Sanderson

photo by Morgan Robinson
John Singer Sargent

Self-Portrait, 1907 (Wikipedia)
Jean Paul Sartre

Laura Amy Schlitz

Joe Rubino
Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
Maurice Sendak

Joann Sfar

Credit: Jean-noël Lafargue, 2003
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Eric Shanower

Credit: Georges Seguin, 2007
M.D. Bernie S. Siegel

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bill Sienkiewicz

Luigi Novi
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Gail Simone

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Peter Sís

Matěj Baťha
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Patti Smith

Beni Köhler
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Gary Snyder

1990s
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Benedict de Spinoza

Gertrude Stein

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

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Susan Marie Swanson

Courtesy of Susan Marie Swanson
Charles H Talbert

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.)
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
G. P. Taylor

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jeremy Taylor

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ernest L. Thayer

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

pink_fish13
Paul Theroux

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nancy Brown
J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Public Domain (Wikipedia)
James Turner

Photo by Adam Hodgson, Flickr
Desmond Tutu

Photo By Benny Gool, www.en.wikipedia.com
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Laozi

A. E. (Alfred Elton) Van Vogt

John Burlinson
John Varley

Giuseppe Verdi

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Judith Viorst

Milton Viorst
Virgil

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

MDCarchives
Diane Wakoski

Portrait of Diane Wakoski at MOMA by Elsa Dorfman
Yuu Watase

Simone Marchi
David Weinberger

photo by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Alan Weisman

Rosemary Wells

Library of Congress
Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Gloria Whelan

gloriawhelan.com
E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

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

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

Elena Seibert
David Wiesner

Library of Congress
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Lauren F. Winner

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.)
Tom Wolfe

Douglas Wolk

Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007 (Wikipedia)
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
John Woolman

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Gene Luen Yang

Library of Congress
W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane. Yolen

Adam Zamoyski

Wyklety
Zhuangzi

www.iep.utm.edu
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