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Sherman Alexie

Tariq Ali

Dorothy Allison

A Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Aristotle

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

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Pat Barker

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Stephanie Barron

Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Samuel Beckett

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ronan Bennett

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. Scott Berg

Cara Black

Dennis Hearne
Richard Nelson Bolles

Jorge Luis Borges

T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mary Elizabeth Braddon

BERTOLT BRECHT

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Geraldine Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Robert Browning

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

Robert Cowen
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Frances Burney

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

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
George Gordon Lord Byron

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
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)
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
Caleb Carr

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

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Upamanyu Chatterjee

Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
J.M. Coetzee

Edward Colimore

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Nathan Bevier
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Robert Coover

Patricia Cornwell

E. E. Cummings

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

Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Benjamin Disraeli

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen",
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Donne

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

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

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Alexandre Dumas père

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Bob Dylan

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
John Feinstein

Bobby Fischer

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Miles Franklin

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressHelen Gardner

John Burlinson
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Charlotte P. Gilman

George Gissing

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

Nikolai Gogol

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jorie Graham

Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Graham Greene

Ernesto Guevara

Alberto Korda
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Tony Davis
James Hogg

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Kate Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames Joyce

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

Garry Kasparov

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
John Keats

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Dean King

Ross King

Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Laura Kipnis

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Edward Lasker

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

© 2003 by James F. Perry, Seattle, Wash.
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Sinclair Lewis

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

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Anita Loos

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

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Thomas Malthus

Christopher Marlowe

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

Paule Marshall

Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Irene Nemirovsky

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
GEORGE ORWELL

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

Thomas Paine

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Sara Paretsky

Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Nathaniel Philbrick

Harold Pinter

www.chrismsaunders.com
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Marcel Proust, and Scott Moncrieff, C. K., and Kilmartin, Terence

Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
Harriet H. Robinson

Harriet Hanson Robinson (b.1825), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Marilynne Robinson

J.K. Rowling

Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
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)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Walter Scott, Sir

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Winfried Georg Sebald

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jennifer Shahade

© 2002 by James F. Perry, Seattle, Wash.
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Alix Kates Shulman

photographer, Marion Ettlinger
Shel Silverstein

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
April Smith

Jonathan Exley
Scott Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
JOHN STEINBECK

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

Andrea Stein
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Robert Stone

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Mikhail Tal

Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Timothy Taylor

Timothy Taylor (left). Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Alfred Tennyson

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dylan Thomas

E.P. Thompson

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
ROSE TREMAIN

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard
Patricia Volk

P. Blitzer
Kurt Vonnegut

Evelyn Waugh

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
P.G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Yeats W B

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
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