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Chris Abani

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Edwin Abbott

From Wikipedia
Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie
(Photograph by Lou Abercrombie)
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aeschylus

Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Naomi Alderman

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Alma Alexander

Flickr user annafdd
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Dorothy Allison

Rajaa Alsanea

Tori Amos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Jean Anouilh

Anne Applebaum

Lucius Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

John Burlinson
Kate Atkinson

Farid al-Din Attar

Bust of Farid al-Din Attar, Nishapur, Iran. Photo by Nik_Pendaar / Wikimedia Commons.
David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Emperor Augustus

from Wikipedia
Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
St Teresa of Avila

Peter Paul Rubens
Trezza Azzopardi

Babur

Joel Bakan

Joel Bakan
Shauna Singh Baldwin

J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Pat Barker

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Ibn Battutah

Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Simone de Beauvoir

Antony Beevor

Saul Bellow

Andrei Bely

Portrait by Leon Bakst
Hy Bender

Ronan Bennett

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
E. F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Carol Berg

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Hildegard of Bingen

From Wikipedia
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Bowles

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Fernand Braudel

Chaz Brenchley

David Brin

By R. Feist
Hermann Broch

Kevin Brockmeier

© Benjamin Krain
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
Geraldine Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Tobias S. Buckell

via Tobias Buckell
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Anthony Burgess

Carolyn Burke

Elena Seibert
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Ian Buruma

Photo by Larry D. Moore at the Texas Book Festival
Andrew M. Butler

Judith Butler

Jreberlein
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Jesse L. Byock (tr.)

Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Julius Caesar

public domain
Simon Callow

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Truman Capote

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

Jacqueline Carey

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John Le Carre

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Bartolome de las Casas

from Wikipedia
Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Willa Cather

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margaret Cavendish Newcastle, Duchess of

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Anton 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
G.K. Chesterton

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

Elze Hamilton
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Aziz Chouaki

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Jonathan Coe

J.M. Coetzee

Christopher Columbus

Columbus, After a Portrait by Herrer ~ From "History of the United States," E. Benjamin Andrews, 1912
Project Gutenberg
Anna Komnene

Byzantine Mosaic
Confucius

Karen Connelly

Courtesy of the author
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Michael Cook

Prof. Michael Cook (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jim Crace

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Liza Crihfield Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Ellen Datlow (ed.)

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

Lucy Cavender
Robertson Davies

Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Cathy Day

Cathy Day
Junot Diaz

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Don DeLillo

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Kiran Desai

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Cassius Dio

Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
E. L. Doctorow

Stephen Donaldson

Fred McGraw Donner

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Renate Dorrestein

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
L. Timmel Duchamp

Clare Dudman

Credit: Sandra Johnson
(AP Watt)
Eamon Duffy

Stella Duffy

Sarah Dunant

Hal Duncan

taleswapper
Elaine Dundy

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
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)
Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
George Eliot

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

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Steve Erickson

Steven Erikson

Aidan Moher
Kelley Eskridge

Photo by Nicola Griffith
Jane Espenson

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2006
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Abu al-Qasim Hassan Firdawsi

Statue of Ferdowsi, Tehran, Iran.
Orlando Figes

Dorothy Canfield

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

Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
John M. Ford

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

John Foxe

Line engraving first published in the 1641 edition of Actes and Monmuents (Foxe's Book of Martyrs). By George Glover (fl. 1625-1650)
Miles Franklin

Charles Frazier

Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

© Miriam Berkley. Use of image requires permission from
Miriam Berkley.
David Gemmell

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Gibson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Chris Given-Wilson

University of St Andrews
Nikolai Gogol

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

Glen David Gold

William Golding

William Goldman

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

Nadine Gordimer

Angelica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Theodora Goss

Courtesy of the author.
Philip Gourevitch

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Anthony Grafton

Prof. Anthony Thomas Grafton. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2000 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Jo Graham

Robert Walters
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Colin Greenland

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Wilhelm Grimm

State22
Pia Guerra

Y the Last Party, February 2008, photo by
pinguino kUrsula Le Guin

Sandra Gulland

Richard Gulland
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
James Hall

Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Peter F. Hamilton

wikipedia user Jedsen (2006)
Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
M.John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
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.
Herodotus

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Robin Hobb

E.T.A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
A.M. Homes

Nalo Hopkinson

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Statue of Begum Roke, Begum Rokeya Memorial Centre, Pairabondh, Rangpur. Photo by user Auyon / Wikimedia Commons.
Bohumil Hrabal

(c) Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Tanya Huff

Johan Huizinga

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
M.J. Hyland

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Stefan Servos (2003). Photo is of director Peter Jackson, not software writer Peter Jackson.
Henry James

Wikipedia
Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Kij Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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

Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Robert Jordan

Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
James Joyce

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
Ismail Kadare

wikimedia commons
Franz Kafka

Kalidasa

The Kalidas Smarak, Ramtek, Maharashtra, India. Photo from the Nagpur District Gazetter via Wikimedia Commons.
Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Jackie Kay

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Jack Kerouac

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Ross King

Danilo Kis

Photo by user Goldfinger / Serbian Wikipedia.
Jerzy Kosinski

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Leena Krohn

Anneli Salo
Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Painting attibuted to Alexander Kucharski (1741-1819).
Amiens, Musée de l'hôtel de Berny (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Madame de La Fayette

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
Margo Lanagan

David Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Glenda Larke

Rhiannon Lassiter

Courtesy of Rhiannon Lassiter
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Rosamond Lehmann

John Burlinson
Stephen Leigh

William Wesen
Charles G. Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland, circa 1853
Paul Leppin

Paul Leppin ca. 1905
Nikolai Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Marina Lewycka

Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
David Liss

Penelope Lively

Livy

from Wikipedia
Mario Vargos Llosa

MDCarchives
Tom Lloyd

Elias Lonnrot (tr.)

wikimedia commons - portait by Eva Ingman (1853–1914)
Federico Garcia Lorca

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
James Lovegrove

Katie Vandyck
Amin Maalouf (tr.)

Dinkley
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ian R. MacLeod

Credit: Gillian Bowskill (courtesy of Ian MacLeod)
Ken MacLeod

Geert Mak

(c) Bob Bronshof / Hollandse Hoogte
Andre Malraux

André Malraux and Jacqueline Kennedy by Robert L. Knudsen
Sir John Mandeville

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Laurie J. Marks

Louise Marley

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Richard Matheson

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne Du Maurier

Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Paul McAuley

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Maureen F. McHugh

Fiona McIntosh

Georges Seguin
Ami McKay

Ian McKay
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Gillian Mears

Farah Mendlesohn

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)China Mieville

Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Arthur Miller

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

Mary GT Webber
Keith Miller

photo by Dina Salah
Steven Millhauser

Czeslaw Milosz

MDCarchives
John Milton

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Alistair Moffat

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
Charles de Montesquieu

Wikipédia France
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Ward Moore

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

Jan Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
Kate Mosse

Herta Muller

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Irene Nemirovsky

Jan Neruda

Jan Neruda (1834-1891)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Julian of Norwich

Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJoyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Barack Obama

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Kate O'Brien

(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-124445)
Wendy Doniger

Yuri Olesha

From Wikipedia
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Anthony O'Neill

George Orwell

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

Helen Oyeyemi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
ZZ Packer

Marion Ettinger
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

Melissa Ann Pinney
Milorad Pavic

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Anne Perry

Marisha Pessl

Julie Phillips

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

Richard Rosenthal
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Salvador Plascencia

Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

©The Random House Group
Plutarch

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Rachel Pollack

Marco Polo

Polybius

Roy Porter

Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Abbe Prevost

Wikipédia France
Cherie Priest

Photo by Cherie Priest
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Aleksandr Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Thomas Pynchon

Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Robert Rankin

Rafael Reig

Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Alastair Reynolds

Photo by Nick Mills, 2005
Jonathan Riley-Smith

Rainer Maria Rilke

Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Jason Roberts

Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Michele Roberts

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson

Justina Robson

Merce Rodoreda

Borja Vilallonga (1997).
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Joseph Roth

Brian Ruckley

Brian Ruckley
Matt Ruff

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Miguel de Cervantes

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
Brandon Sanderson

Sappho

Modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
George Saunders

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
John Scalzi

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Ekaterina Sedia

Tait Chirenje
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Madame de Sevigne

wikipedia
Elif Shafak

Bahar
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Bob Shaw

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention), Brighton, England, 1979. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Delia Sherman

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Sharon Shinn

David K. Shipler

© 2003 Claudio Vasquez
Lionel Shriver

Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Sidhwa

John Burlinson
Jan Siegel

Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Cordwainer Smith

Zadie Smith

Midori Snyder

Photo by Stephen Haessler
Sophocles

Diana Souhami

Andrzej Stasiuk

Gertrude Stein

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Peter Straub (ed.)

Victoria Strauss

copyright Victoria Strauss used by permission.
Charles Stross

Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
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Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tricia Sullivan

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Kate Summerscale

Michael Swanwick

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Cornelius Tacitus

Torquato Tasso

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Hugo Glendinning
Thucydides

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Time-Life Books

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Vernor Vinge

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Virgil

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Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

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Liz Williams

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Tad Williams

Connie Willis

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Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Jeanette Winterson

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Paul Witcover

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Christa Wolf

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Pliny the Younger

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