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Lynn Abbey

Taken in 1989.
Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Peter Abelard

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Henry Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
John Ajvide Lindqvist

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)
Dorothy Allison

Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Sherwood Anderson

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

Piers Anthony

Kim Antieau

Jean B. Arban

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Arban.jpg
Aristophanes

Simon Armitage

Jonty Wilde
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Fernando Arrabal

Stoisto
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Nancy Atherton

Kate Atkinson

John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
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.
Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Baring-Gould, Sabine

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J.M. Barrie

Dave Barry

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Susan Bassnett

Photo: © George Archer Photography Ltd.
Brian Bates

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
William Bayer

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Pierre de Beaumarchais

wikimedia commons
Samuel Beckett

William Beckford

Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving
the Venerable Bede, Saint

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Edward Bellamy

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

Jedediah Berry

Photo by Lucy Hamblin.
Mark Billingham

© Charlie Hopkinson 2007
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
William Bligh

"Midshipman William Bligh"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Ancius Boethius

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Sarah Bradford

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gillian Bradshaw

Fernand Braudel

Susan Brigden

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Project Gutenberg
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Anne Bronte

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

Max Brooks

Charles Brockden Brown

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

David Dyer-Bennet
Raymond Buckland

Stephen Budiansky

Frederick Buechner

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Thomas Bulfinch

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Jan Burke

Julie Dennis Brothers
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
David M. Buss

Jim Butcher

Samuel Butler

George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Chelsea Cain

Tom Cain

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsey Campbell

Truman Capote

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

Alexander Carmichael

Caleb Carr

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

Ciaran Carson

Wake Forest University Press
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
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)
Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Margaret Cavendish

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

Colin Cawthorne
Robert W. Chambers

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Graham Chapman

Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Clifford Chase

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
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)
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Charles W. Chesnutt

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

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Douglas Clegg

Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Andrei Codrescu

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
J. M. Coetzee

Loren Coleman

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
Max Allan Collins

Wikimedia Commons user Oscarfan
Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Nancy A. Collins

Flickr user infrogmation
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Patricia Cornwell

Madeleine Pelner Cosman

John Coyne

Photo by Rob Morgan
Aleister Crowley

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Peter Crowther

promotional image
Barry Cunliffe

Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Bob Curran

Jeremiah Curtin

Curtin in December 1905
Richard Curtis

Photo by Rita Molnar, 2002 (Wikimedia Commons)
Julie E. Czerneda

TruAspect Photography
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Alphonse Daudet

Wikipédia France
Peter David

Andrew Davidson

Deborah Feingold
Marion Davies

Marion Davies (1897-1961)
Portrait by Hamilton King for the
June 1920 cover of "Theatre Magazine"
(Randy Bryan Bigham Collection)
Robertson Davies

Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Jeffrey Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Frank Delaney

credit: Jerry Baur
Don DeLillo

August William Derleth

Thomas Devine

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

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

Ivan Helmer
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Jeanne Kalogridis

Walt Disney Productions

Stephen Dobyns

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
John Donne

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

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Denis Donoghue

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Joan Druett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Pierre Dubois

Photo by user Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons
Alexandre Dumas pere

Sarah Dunant

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
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)
Ake Edwardson

Jennifer Egan

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Einhard

from Wikipedia
Alexander Eliot

photo of painting by Gregg Chadwick
George Eliot

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

Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Clayton Emery

Photo by Andy Edgar
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Wolfram Von Eschenbach

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
J. Sheridan LeFanu

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jon Fasman

Jenny Black
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Anna-Marie Ferguson

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Ronald Firbank

John Burlinson
Jude Fisher

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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Jean De La Fontaine

Wikipédia France
Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
R. F. Foster

Christopher Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Anatole France

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

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Anne Frasier

Martha Weir
James Frazer

Harold Frederic

See below.
Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
C. S. Friedman

Permission of CSF
Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
Robert Frost

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

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Neil Gaiman

Theophile Gautier

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Gay

William Gibson

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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

William Golding

William Goldman

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

Brian Velenchenko
Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Ariel Gore

Photo by Tiffany Talbott
Eli Gottlieb

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Sara Gran

Robert Urh
Richard Grant

Jan Rosenbaum
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Robert Graysmith

Andrew M Greeley

from wikipedia
Martha Grimes

Jacob Grimm

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

State22
Lauren Groff

Lucy Schaeffer
Michael Gruber

Ursula K. Le Guin

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Oakley Hall

Photo by Barbara Hall
Laurell K. Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun, circa 1935 / Photo ©
ÖNB/Wien
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
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Joel Chandler Harris

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

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Erin Hart

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Matthew Hart

David G. (editor) Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Mo Hayder

Seamus Heaney

Johann Peter Hebel

Ernest Hemingway

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

Engraving by Robert White (1674)
James Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Tracy Hickman

Jaqen
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joan Hoff

Montana State University
Ernst Theodor Hoffman

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
Anthony Hope

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

Rachel Howard

William Fischer
Susan Hubbard

Tanya Huff

Declan Hughes

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Gregg Hurwitz

Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Rona Jaffe

Henry James

Wikipedia
M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Paul Jaskunas

Photograph by Andrew Bruch
Adam Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Stephen Jones

Catriona Sparks
Terry Jones

Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Neil Jordan

Photo by Franz Richter
Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
James Joyce

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

Joanna Kavenna

John Keats

Jack Kerley

Eileen Kernaghan

Diane Jarvis Jones
Philip Kerr

Ken Kesey

Raymond Khoury

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Ross King

Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Rudyard Kipling

Richard Kluger

© 2003 Phyllis Kluger
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Peter D. Kramer

Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Pierre 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 Lafayette

Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueClare Langley-Hawthorne

Erik Larson

Roseanne Olson
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Alan Lee

Harper Lee

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

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

Noah Sheldon
S. L. Farrell

William Wesen
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Mikhail Lermontov

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

from Wikipedia
John Lescroart

William Mosgrove
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C. S. Lewis

Judith Lindbergh

Sigrid Estrada
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Laura Lippman

David Liss

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Jeff Long

Sara Lorimer

(c) Sara Lorimer
Guillaume de Lorris

H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Samuel Lover

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

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
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.)
Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Alison MacLeod

Kate MacLeod
Ian R. MacLeod

Credit: Gillian Bowskill (courtesy of Ian MacLeod)
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Erika Mailman

Courtesy Gabriela Laz Photography
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)
Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Louise Marley

Christopher Marlowe

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

Edward Marston

Simon Whitfield
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
Richard Matheson

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Elliott & Fry
Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Frank McCourt

Sharyn McCrumb

Val McDermid

Alan Peebles
Ian McDonald

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

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Cammie McGovern

Photo by Ellen Augarten
Patrick Mcgrath

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Carolyn Meyer

www.readcarolyn.com
Jules Michelet

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 22, 1940 (Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-103696)
Laura Miller

Nancy Crampton
A. A. Milne

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

John Milton

Mary Ann Mitchell

Courtesy of the author.
Brent Monahan

Brent Monahan
by Caitlin Monahan
Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Geoffrey of Monmouth

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

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Photographed by George Platt Lynes, circa 1935
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-101955)
Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Michael Morpurgo

Georges Seguin
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
John Mortimer

Kate Mosse

Natasha Mostert

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Kathryn Millan
Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Sharan Newman

Whitney Hall
Geoff Nicholson

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

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

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Julian of Norwich

Sharyn November

Flickr user jessamyn
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna O'Brien

Nuala O'Faolain

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

Tim Duncan
Stewart O'Nan

Anthony O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

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

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

Tom Marcello, 1977
Ovid

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Dorothy Parker

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

Photograph by Andrea Passarella
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Iain Pears

Ellen Rimbauer

Sharon Kay Penman

© William Penman, Jr.
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Anne Perry

Marisha Pessl

Elizabeth Peters

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius

Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Christine de Pisan

from Wikipedia
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Marco Polo

Jan Potocki

wikipedia
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Diana Preston

Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Cherie Priest

Photo by Cherie Priest
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Heather Pringle

Michael Pye

Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Kathy Reichs

Barbara Vine

Jerry Bauer
Mike Resnick

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Richards

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
Kat Richardson

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Phil Rickman

copyright John Mason.
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Jonathan Riley-Smith

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
John J. Robinson

http://www.msana.com/jrobinson.asp
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Tim Robinson

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Fred Rogers

White House Photo by Susan Sterner
Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Edmond Rostand

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

Grace Cathedral San Francisco
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
Peter Rowland

Matt Ruff

Douglas Rushkoff

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