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Edward Abbey

Michael Ableman

fieldsofplenty.com
Andy Adams

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James Agee

Pamela Aidan

Robert Aitken

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Louisa May Alcott

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Sherman Alexie

Eric Alterman

Stephen E. Ambrose

Ann Amernick

Library of Congress
Kingsley Amis

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Suzanne Arruda

Jane Austen

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

Charles Fletcher Lummis
Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Lidia Bastianich

Christopher Hirsheimer
Thomas Berger

Laurence Bergreen

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Louis De Bernieres

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

Michael Blake

Terry Ballard, October 4, 2005
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
John C. Bogle

W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
C. J. Box

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Joseph Bruchac

by Krystina Kelley
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Jimmy Buffett

Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael W. Pendergrass, 2008.
John Burroughs

1902 photograph (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZC2-6269)
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
William H. Calvin

Ron Carlson

Rachel Carson

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Jimmy Carter

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Willa Cather

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Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Moosewood-Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Anna Comstock

Marion Cunningham

Charles Darwin

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

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jared Diamond

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Ivan Doig

William O. Douglas

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Carol Drinkwater

Paul Ehrlich

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George Eliot

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T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Left Lama Kazi Kawa-Samdup on the right W.Y. Evans-Wentz Circa 1919
Oliver La Farge

NYWT&S Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-116958
Paul Farmer

Craig Ferguson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

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

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Jane Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Heinrich Harrar

Jessica B. Harris

Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr.
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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O. Henry

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Tony Hillerman

Nick Hornby

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Thomas H. Huxley

"Professor Huxley. F.R.S."
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Molly Ivins

Harold Jaffe

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Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Jan Karon

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
W. P. Kinsella

William Kittredge

Raymond Meeks
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
Gene Kranz

nix.ksc.nasa.gov
Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman (1953- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Joseph Wood Krutch

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Milan Kundera

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Winona LaDuke

Photo by Eclectek
Par Lagerkvist

Tenzin Gyatso

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Aldo Leopold

Arnost Lustig

Photo by user che / Czech Wikipedia.
Deborah Madison

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Daniel Mason

Vintage, 2007
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Thomas Mcguane

Audrey Hall
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Diane McWhorter

Columbia University
N. Scott Momaday

Library of Congress
Chris Mooney

Farley Mowat

Nasdijj

rrllmm392
Barack Obama

Frederick Law Olmsted

c. 1850
Eliot Pattison

Jerry Bauer
Allison Pearson

Jerry Bauer
Jacques Pepin

Christopher Hirsheimer
Kevin Phillips

Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Bryce Pinchot (1865-1946)
(George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-04976)
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
J. W. Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862)
Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
J.K. Rowling

George B. Schaller

Beijing Zoo lecture, Aug. 10, 2005 (photo credit: Smartneddy, Wikipedia user)
Chris Schlesinger

East Coast Grill
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Gary D. Schmidt

Calvin College
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Luis Sepulveda

Amadeus Serey Yàñez (Source: Flickr)
Dr. Seuss

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtMichael Shermer

Nevil Shute

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
David Allen Sibley

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
George Gaylord Simpson

Charles A. Siringo

Image from A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency (1912) by Charles A. Siringo
Alexander Mccall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Gary Snyder

1990s
National Geographic Society,

Mark Spragg

2004 Virginia Spragg
Wallace Stegner

John Steinbeck

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Jean Stratton Porter

Ball State University
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tsu

Voltaire

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Ayelet Waldman

ayeletwaldman.com
Alice Walker

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

Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Eudora Welty

Lawrence Weschler

David Shankbone, August 2007
Janwillem Van De Wetering

E. B. White

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Edward O. Wilson

J.D. Sloan
Norman Wirzba

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.)
Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
P.G. Wodehouse

Tobias Wolff

Bob Woodward

Carl Zimmer

Ben Stechshulte
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