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Unknown

D'Arcy Norman
Edwin Abbott Abbott

From Wikipedia
Jessica Abel

Luigi Novi
Ralph Abraham

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Douglas Adams

James L. Adams

Stanford University Faculty Page
Scott Adams

Aesop.,

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
A. N. Afanasʹev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
James Agee

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Edward Albee

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Steve Allen

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1987
Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Harry Anderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Paul E. Burns, III
Lynn Anderson

Anonymous

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes.,

Aristotle

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

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Marcus Aurelius

Isaac Babel

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Christopher P. Baker

M. M. Bakhtin

Letitia Baldrige

White House photo by Robert Knudsen (cropped by uploader): John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Honoré de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Cicely Mary Barker

Annie Barrows

Photo by Brook McCormick
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
S. Wise Bauer

William McEwan
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Andrey Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Michael Benedikt

Basilius Besler

J. Leypolt, 1613
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Jerry Bingham

Courtesy of Jerry Bingham.
Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Alain De Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Stewart Brand

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Laurent de Brunhoff

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Andrea J. Buchanan

Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
jacob burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Anthony Burgess

James Burke

Richard Francis Burton

Leo F. Buscaglia

MDCarchives
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
George Carlin

Lewis Carroll

Howard Carter

Mary Casanova

Courtesy of Mary Casanova
Camilo José Cela

ÁWá
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Benjamin Constant

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

Walter Crane

Walter Crane. Detail of photo by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933) From the album Portraits of Many Persons of Note, 1886. Wikimedia Commons.
Chris Crawford

On the 2002 Leonid MAC mission. Photo courtesy of Jane Houston-Jones
Cameron Crowe

Andrew Cooper
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
marquis de Astolphe Custine

Wikipedia
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)
Vladimir Ivanovich Dalʹ

portrait by Vasily Perov (1872), courtesy Wikipedia
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Peter David

Richard Dawkins

Tomie dePaola

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
Fedor Dostoevskii

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

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Gerald M. Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
Maria Edgeworth

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Carlos M. N. Eire

Courtesy of Carlos M. N. Eire
Will Eisner

T. S. Eliot

Desiderius Erasmus

M. C. Escher

Real Academia Española.

Real Academia Española, Madrid, Spain. Photo by J.L. De Diego / Wikimedia Commons
José de Espronceda

Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Eugene Field

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Bobby Fischer

Ian Fleming

John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
John Fowles

Sir James George Frazer

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Cristina García

Norma Quintana
Rick Geary

William Gibson

André Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolai Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
Maksim Gorky

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

photo by Sarah Harlin
Alan Grant

User:Vizjim
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Empress of Russia Catherine

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

Gage Skidmore
Olga Grushin

Ernesto, Guevara

Alberto Korda
John Guy

Author's website
Edward Twitchell Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Johnny Hart

Photo courtesy of the Hart family/Studios. Used by permission.
Mickey Hart

Web 2.0 Conference 2005 (Photo credit: James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch

J. Donon (fl. ca. 1855 - 1882)
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's high school yearbook picture, 1938.
From dreamer of Dune, the Biography of Frank Herbert,
written by Brian Herbert.
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission.
E. D. Hirsch

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
E. T. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Katharine Holabird

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Paul Jackson

Judith A. Jance

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Wassily Kandinsky

Wikipedia
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

(Library of Congress Division of Prints and Photographs LC-USZ62-128265)
Brian W. Kernighan

By permission of Brian Kernighan
Thomas Kinkade

Anna Kirwan

Suzy Kline

Donald Ervin Knuth

David Monniaux
Jerzy Kosinski

Milan Kundera

R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
John De Lancie

Brenda Laurel

Photo by Bill Moggridge
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Timothy Leary

Photograph taken by Philip H. Bailey between Summer-Fall 1989, in Los Angeles, California, at the home of Timothy Leary
George Burr Leonard

Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov

Carte de visite from late 1880s (George Kennan Papers, LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-128263)
Paul Levitz

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
David H. Levy

JPL
Steven Levy

Marina Lewycka

Alan P. Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jonathan London

Federico García Lorca

Jean Lorrah

no credit given
Maud Hart Lovelace

Minnesota Historical Society
Eric Lustbader

Milo Manara

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

http://www.maa.org/students/chapter_news/ChapterNewsOct04.htm
Nadezhda Mandelstam

Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Thomas Mann

Queen Marguerite, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Charles Robert Maturin

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

Rodchenko, Portrait of Mayakovsky
Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Scott McCloud

W. S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
James A. Michener

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

Eisner Awards @ Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
A. A. Milne

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

MDCarchives
W. J. Thomas Mitchell

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Molière

Wikipédia France
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Grant Morrison

Jim Morrison

Ian Burt
Marissa Moss

Ferenc Móra

Prosper Mérimée

Wikipédia France
Walter Dean Myers

Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Nekrasov

Photo on carte de visite mount, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128250)
Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Lennart Nilsson

Vogler
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Anaïs Nin

Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Marc Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueDennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
Dan O'Neill

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
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/
Mary Pope Osborne

Tom Marcello, 1977
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne

Authors Mary Pope Osborne and her husband Will Osborne read aloud to an ethusiastic crowd of young readers from her book, "American Tall Tales," Monday, April 9, 2007, during the 2007 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn.
(whitehouse.gov)
Iain Pears

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Jan Pienkowski

Mark Pilgrim

Photo by Tim Bray (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Richard Pipes

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 20, 2004
Plato.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Alice Provensen

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ted Rall

Joshin Yamada
Ayn Rand

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

H. A. Rey

portrait of H.A.Rey in early seventies reading to children at Cambridge Adult Education Center by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net
Samuel Richardson

Tom Robbins

Gene Roddenberry

Listening to fans after his lecture at the Student Union of the University of Texas at Austin, ca. 1978. Photograph by Larry D. Moore.
J. K. Rowling

Rudy v. B. Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.)>,

Anatoli Rybakov

from Wikipedia
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Carl Sagan

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

J. D. Salinger

Ellen Sandbeck

Photograph by Ann Klefstad
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
Jerry Schad

Photo courtesy of Jerry Schad
Jonathan Schell

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert. Frontispiece from Songs and song writers (1900)
Schultz Charles

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Jon Scieszka

Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Shel Silverstein

T. Raphael Simons

Permission received from the author. He had his associate email me the photo.
Juliusz Słowacki

Image via Wikipedia
Joseph Smith

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown
Kevin Smith

Credit: Joey O'Rourke, 2006, Red Bank, N.J.
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Photographed by F. Holland Day, 1901 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-52912)
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Sally Swain

Alfred Tennyson

Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Lewis Thomas

Thucydides.,

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J. R. R. Tolkien

graf Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Keith Topping

G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Tasha Tudor

Richard Brown
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia
Sunzi,

Various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Virgil.,

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

Galina Zakhoder
Kurt Vonnegut

Matt Wagner

From Matt Wagner
Mark Waid

Gail Simone Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Andrew Weil

John R. Ziemann
Joseph Weizenbaum

Photographed on February 11th, 2005. Photographer & copyright holder: Ulrich Hansen, Germany
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE. B. White

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Judd Winick

Photo by Wikipedia User Nightscream
Christa Wolf

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

Marv Wolfman

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
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