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Anon

Paperback Pirate
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Aeschylus

Louisa May Alcott

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Aldington, Ed.

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

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

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City

Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
William Allingham

David Almond

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Hans Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Jessica Anderson

Courtesy of the author.
Aristophanes

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Sarah Armstrong

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Elizabeth Von Arnim

John Burlinson
Margot Asquith

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-33709)
Kate Atkinson

Farrid ud_Din Attar

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

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Lauren Bacall

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

Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug. 1963
Credit: US Information Agency
Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather

From "Bullets & Billets," 1916 (Project Gutenberg)
R.M. Ballantyne

wikipedia
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sir J.M. Barrie

Sir John Barrow

Sir John Barrow (the Mutiny on the Bounty author, not the physicist)
Roland Barthes

John Barth

Jeanine Basinger

Bill Burkhart
Daisy Bates

H.E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Anne Baxter

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

Pierre Bayard

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
William Bayer

Aubrey Beardsley

Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division
The Beatles

Wikimedia Commons. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under digital ID cph.3c11094
Cecil Beaton

Warren Beatty

Photo by Alan Light, 1990 (Flickr)
Antony Beevor

Brendan Behan

Quentin Bell


Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
E.F. Benson

From "Harpers Weekly"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
E.C. Bentley

Linda Berdoll

A. Scott Berg

Candice Bergen

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (Cropped/Flickr)
Thomas Berger

Ingmar Bergman

Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
John Betjeman

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Xandra Bingley

Holley Bishop

Photograph by Trix Rosen
Peter Biskind

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Nicholas Blake

John Burlinson
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Peter Bogdanovich

Wikipedia user Eliaws
Kyril Bonfiglioli

John Boorman

Photo by Mario Antonio Pena Zapateria, Spain (Flickr)
James Boswell

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Margaret Bourke-White

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Peter Boxall, Ed.

University of Sussex Staff Biography Photo
Malcolm Bradbury

Sarah Bradford

Marion Bradley

E.R. Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 24, 1962 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-117467)
Marlon Brando

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

Photo by Fatimah Namdar
Raymond Briggs

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
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

Tina Brown

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Greg Buckman

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

Carolyn Burke

Elena Seibert
James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Fanny Burney

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

Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Tim Burton

Wikimedia Commons.
Candace Bushnell

Eye on Books
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Ada Cambridge


Andrea Camilleri

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)
Frank Capra

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody
John Le Carre


Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Violet Bonham Carter

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-07463)
Willa Cather

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

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Charles Chaplin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
HRH The Prince Of Wales & Charles Clover

White House Photo by Paul Morse (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

Agatha Christie

Eric Clapton

John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Alan Clark

www.chrismsaunders.com

Susanna Clarke

Jeremy Clarkson

Wikipedia
Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Colette

from Wikipedia
Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Captain James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Francis Ford Coppola

Source: Preşedintele României website (photo taken Sept. 21, 2005 at meeting with President of Romania)
Mark Crick

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Cameron Crowe

Andrew Cooper
David Crystal

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)

Norman Davies

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Bette Davis

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

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

Kiran Desai

Descartes

from Wikipedia
Michael Dibdin

Isolde Ohlbaum
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson, (poems selected by Ted Hughes)

Wikipedia
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Walt Disney

Rosemary Dobson

Original by Alec Bolton
Stephen R. Donaldson

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
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Alexandre Dumas

Jane Dunn

© 2003 Susan Greenhill
Gerald Durrell

Bob Dylan

Steve Earle

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Maria Edgeworth

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

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
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Ann Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Euripides

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

Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Marianne Faithfull

Just_guy, 2007
William Faulkner

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

Jerry Bauer
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Tim Flannery, Editor

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Errol Flynn

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-26017)
(cropped)
Jane Fonda

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

Shelby Foote

Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
John Ford

(Film Director)
history.navy.mil
Amanda Foreman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
John Fowles

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Miles Franklin

Jonathan Franzen

ANTONIA FRASER

Susan Greenhill
Sir James Frazer

Stephen Frears

Sweden, 1989, promoting Dangerous Liaisons (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot)
Robert Frost

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Jane Gardam

Ava Gardner

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

William John Thomson
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Kahlil Gibran

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

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, LOT 12735, no. 424
Lillian Gish

1921 photograph
George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-32655)
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Golding

William Goldman

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

E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Ulysses Grant, S.

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

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene


Kerry Greenwood

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Grimm Brothers

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Camilla Gryski

Ursula Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Christopher Hampton

David Chadderton
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joel Chandler Harris

Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1906
(Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83144)
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Ed.

John Burlinson
Lillian Hellman

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

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

Katharine Hepburn

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

Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Christopher Hibbert

Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

Alfred Hitchcock

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Anthony Holden

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Nick Hornby

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Barry Humphries

WTCA
John Huston

John Huston (22 June 1968) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienSiri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Henrik Ibsen

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

Photo by Tom E. Canavan
Ion L. Idriess

Ion L. Idriess, c. 1940-1941 / by unknown photographer
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
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Julian Jaynes

John Burlinson
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Samuel Johnson

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Barry Jones

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gail Jones

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
James Joyce

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

Garson Kanin

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

Patrick Kavanagh

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.

M.J. FARRELL

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats


Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Frank Kermode

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Dean King

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Arthur Koestler

Pinn Hans
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Akira Kurosawa

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

wikipedia
Gavin Lambert

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Margo Lanagan

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Dorothea Lange

Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Charles Laughton

Carl Van Vechten (1940)
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Henry Lawson

William Johnson (d. 1921)
Eric Lax

Patricia Williams
Halldor Laxness

Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Harper Lee

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

Jane Brown
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
John Lennon

Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Donna Leon

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
C. Day Lewis

John Burlinson
C.S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Alison Light

Norman Lindsay

Taken by Harold Cazneaux, 1931
Joshua Logan

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

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

Robert Ludlum

David Lynch

Credit: Rita Molnár, 2001, Cannes, France
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Compton Mackenzie

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1914 (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Shirley MacLaine

Alistair MacLeod

University of Windsor
Magnus Magnusson, Ed.

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Shane Maloney

Copyright Wikipedia user Skyring 5 October 2007
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar

Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Peter Marshall

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.)
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Daphne Du Maurier

Andre Maurois

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

wikipedia
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter

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
Sharyn McCrumb

Robert; Cran McCrum, William; MacNeil, Robert

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Andrew McGahan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Alister McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Gillian Mears

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Yehudi Menuhin

Jeffrey Meyers

Photo © 2003 Paul Alkon
Diane Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Alex Miller

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arthur Miller

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

A.A. Milne

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

Anthony Minghella

Cast and director of Talented Mr Ripley at the 2000 Berlinale, left-right: Stefania Rocca, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Anthony Minghella. Photo by
Michael Wiener.
Joni Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Jessica Mitford

Photo © Alain McLaughlin

Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Susanna Moodie

Library and Archives Canada
George Moore

Alan Moorehead

From the papers of Tom Pocock, 1987–1990
By permission of the National Library of Australia
Lucy Moore

Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
John Mortimer

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Irene Nemirovsky

Pablo Neruda

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Hakan Nesser

Cato Lein
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Harold Nicolson

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

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Stephen B. Oates

Dr. Stephen B Oates speaking at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. (An NPS photo)
Barack Obama

FLANN O'BRIEN

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Georgia O'Keefe

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
(with Photoshop corrections by Steve Hopson) - Wikipedia
Sharon Olds

Laurence Olivier

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, June 17, 1939
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection,
LC-USZ62-103707)

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judith O'Neill, Ed.

Photo @C. Rigg, Bennekom, NL
Susan Orleans

Gasper Tringale
Maurice O'Sullivan

Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

G88keeper
A.B. Banjo Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Pepys

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

Justin Shenk
Fernando Pessoa

Marie Phillips

Alexandra Scannell
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

from Wikipedia
Roman Polanski

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Peter Porter

Simon James
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Julie Powell

unknown
Katharine Susannah Prichard

May Moore (d. 1931)
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Barbara Pym

Thomas Pynchon

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Sam Raimi

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Robert Redford

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

Elena Torre
Carol Reed

Christopher Reid, Editor

walnut whippet , June 28, 2007
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Rainer Maria Rilke

Michele Roberts

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Marilynne Robinson

Mark Robson

Mazo de la Roche

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Joseph Roth

J.K. Rowling

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)
Gary Russell


Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Duc de Saint-Simon

Perrine Viger-Duvigneau (d. 1894)
J.D. Salinger

Ira D. Sankey

Ira D. Sankey. Portrait from page 196 of Biography of Gospel song and hymn writers (1914) by Jacob Henry Hall
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
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
Leonardo Sciascia

Wikipedia
Sir Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
David O. Selznick

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Dr. Seuss

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