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D'Arcy Norman
R. Tucker Abbott

Photo Courtesy of The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Pamela Aidan

Edward Albe

Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (Author of Personal Growth Books), Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
William Alexander

Photo by Katherine Alexander
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Roy Chapman Andrews

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-50488)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Artisan

Musical group ARTISAN ~ Photo by Jacey Bedford (Wikipedia)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Richard Attenborough

Wikipedia
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
William Edmondstoune Aytoun

William Edmondstoune Aytoun engraved by J.C. Armytage from a bust by Patrick Park. Frontispiece from Memoir of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1867).
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
BBC Video

BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Canley (Wikipedia user)
Saul Bellow

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Source: "Narrative of the Operations and Recent
Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs
and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia"
by Giovanni Battista Belzoni (London, 1820)
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Louis de Bernieres

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

Steve Berry
Wendell Berry

Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Bird

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, Nov. 1, 2008
R D Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Robert Bolt

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

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Ray Bradbury

Gregg Braden

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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 Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Ernest Callenbach

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Elizabeth Williams 1850-1922 Champney

Elizabeth W. Champney (1850-1922) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
James R. Chiles

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Deepak Chopra

Sarvodaya.org
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Tom Clancy

Susanna Clarke

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Sierra Club

Photo by Jim Bradbury / Flickr.
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Catherine Crier

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
George Crile

Wikipedia User Tripalis
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

John W. Dean

Credit: Terry Ballard, August 28, 2008
Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Reader's Digest Editors

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Disney

Mary Mapes Dodge

Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Frederick Douglass

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

from Wikipedia
Will Durant

Gerald Durrell

Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Bart. D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles W. (editor) Eliot

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

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

Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dana Facaros

Oliver La Farge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
ALEX FILIPPENKO

Jeffrey Silverman
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
C S Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Brian Friel

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

Neil Gaiman

Eduardo Galeano

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

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Elizabeth Gilbert

Bernard Goldberg

William Goldman

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

Wikipedia
Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Asa Gray

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Aliza Green

THE BROTHERS Grimm

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.)
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Ursula K. LeGuin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Richard Halliburton

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

Azarnick
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Karen Harper

Jeffrey A. Rycus
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Zahi A Hawass

Photo taken by Hajor, Mexico City, Aug 2003.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

james herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Paul (edited By Edward S. Joynes) Heyse

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

History Channel billboard in Manhattan, August 2006, photo by Fergal Carr
A. M. Homes

Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arianna Huffington

Zora Neale Hurston

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Brian Jacques

Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
P. D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksLady Bird Johnson

LBJ Library Photo by Frank Wolfe, May 10, 1990, Texas Hill County
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
James Joyce

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

Jan Karon

Diana Kennedy

Philip Kerr

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Dean Koontz

David C Korten

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
Dennis J Kucinich

U.S. House of Representatives History Office
James Howard Kunstler

kunstler.com
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
The Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Harold Lamb

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

Roseanne Olson
Jerome Lawrence

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

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Harper Lee

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

David H. Levy

JPL
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
C. S. Lewis

Norah Lofts

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

Flickr user Trudi_
Bill Maher

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ngaio Marsh

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Matthew Fontaine Maury

Engraving by Geo E. Perine, N.York (U.S. Navy Military Library)
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Ami Mckay

Ian McKay
Rod Mckuen

McKuen with Grete Keller: Image ©
ÖNB/WienRand McNally and Company.

James A. Michener

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

Wikipedia
Giles Milton

Anchee Min

Jacquelyn Mitchard

James Schnepf
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Patrick Moore

David Scanlan
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Elaine Morgan

John Mortimer

Kate Mosse

Farley Mowat

V. S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
Ogden Nash

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

Naval Research Laboratory (1941)
Audrey Niffenegger

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

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Jill Nokes

John Burlinson, Dec. 1, 2007
Joyce Carol Oates

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

Scott Ogden

plantdrivendesign.com
Bill O'Neal

George Orwell

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

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Laurence Parent

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
Donald Culross Peattie

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

Anne Perry

Sara Perry

photo by Mark Wexler
Elizabeth Peters

Nathaniel Philbrick

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Katherine Anne Porter

Emily Post (Mrs. Price Post)

1912 photograph
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-101761)
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Richard Reynolds

Maggie Hannan
Jeremy Rifkin

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
Tom Robbins

J. D. Robb

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J. K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

V. Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Carl Sagan

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (b.1838), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
John Philip Santos

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
John Sayles

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Lawrence Schoonover

Fountain City Publishing
Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
Peter Schweizer

peterschweizer.com
Sir Walter Scott

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Jeff Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Michael Shaara

courtesy of Jeff Shaara
Samuel Shellabarger

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Vandana Shiva

Russell Shorto

Marnie Henricksson
Seth Shostak

Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Joseph Smith

From a painting done in 1842 artist unkown
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

Headquarters, National Audubon Society, 2005. Photo by user Geographer / Wikipedia.
National Geographic Society

Steven Spielberg

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1990
Wallace Stegner

Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Martha Stewart

Photo by Peter Duhon
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Victoria Strauss

copyright Victoria Strauss used by permission.
Ron Suskind

Columbia University
David Suzuki

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney and Jill Sobule (Credit: Pierre Omidyar/Flickr)
Daniel Tammet

Booth Tarkington

Photo copyrighted 1922
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-80128)
Alan Tennant

© 2004 Dan Thompson
William Thackery

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
John Kennedy Toole

Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Anthony Trollope

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

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jill Paton Walsh

Andrew Weil

John R. Ziemann
Alison Weir

(c) Alison Weir
Alan Weisman

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienWetmore Alexander

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-26922)
(cropped)
eb white

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

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)
Alexander Wilson

Alexander Wilson, Ornithologist (Wikimedia Commons)
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Naomi Wolf

By Virgina Woolf - Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Wikipedia
C. Leonard Woolley

Frank Yerby

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-115899
Yevgeny Zamiatin

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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