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Lynn Abbey

Taken in 1989.
Abdu'l-Baha

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long

Douglas Adams

Horace M. Albright

Courtesy U.S. National Park Service
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Steve Allen

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1987
Tim Allen

Photo by Alan Light, 1993 (cropped) ~ Wikimedia Commons/Flickr
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers

Piers Anthony

Aristotle

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

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jean M. Auel

Marcus Aurelius

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.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
Frank L. Baum

Library of Congress
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Greg Benford

Thomas Berger

Carl Bernstein

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Judy Blume

Erma Bombeck

George Borrow

wikipedia
Ben Bova

Nathaniel Bowditch

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
(image cropped and enlarged)
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
David Brin

By R. Feist
Terry Brooks

Robert Browning

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg

Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Pearl S. Buck

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

Shunn
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From Wikipedia
George Burns

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

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Thomas Campbell

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

Alan Light
Truman Capote

World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins, 1959 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-119337)
Caleb Carr

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

Robert Spencer Carr

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
ed. Andrew Chaikin

(right) Credit: NASA/Doreen B. Zudell
Anton Chekov

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

Agatha Christie


Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Jacqueline Cochran

Air Force photo, 1940
Loren L. Coleman

Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
Robin Cook

Wikimedia Commons user Patrol110
William H. Cosby Jr.

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Greg Cox

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
John Creasey

Courtesy of John Creasey Literary Management Limited
American Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
David Crystal

Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
Jeffrey T. Darlington

Avram Davidson


Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Department of Defense

defenselink.mil
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester del Rey

Department of War

Great Seal of the U.S. War Department

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
J. M. Dillard

Walt Disney

J. R. "Bob" Dobbs

The portrait of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is a trademark of SubGenius Foundation Inc. and is used with permission.
E. L. Doctorow

Mary Mapes Dodge

Frederick Douglass

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

from Wikipedia
ed. David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
trans. Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Portrait photograph, taken circa late 1943.
(history.navy.mil)
Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot

Harlan Ellison

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

Southworth & Hawes
Clayton Emery

Photo by Andy Edgar
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Howard Fast

Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin

Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Morris Fishbein

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-26753)
(cropped)
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Tim Footman
Department of the Air Force

af.mil
William R. Forstchen


Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Chief Red Fox

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
Esther Friesner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Robert Fulghum

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Neil Gaiman

Hugo Gernsback

Radio News Nov 1928 Cover.jpg
Hugo Gernsback in his Manhattan apartment is watching a television broadcast from his WRNY station in August 1928.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Baroness Jane Van Lawick-Goodall

Photo by Joshua Wickerham / Flickr.
Andrew M. Greeley

from wikipedia
Graham Greene


Ursula K. Le Guin

James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganJames Halperin

ha.com

Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Moss Hart

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
William Least Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons

Robert A. Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
O. Henry

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

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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.
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Marietta Holley

Marietta Holley [aka Josiah Allen's Wife] (1836-1926), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Homer

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

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

Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
L. Ron Hubbard

Fannie Hurst

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dan Jacobson

Al Jaffee

MoCCA Art Festival 2009, photo by Lampbane
John Jakes

Edward James

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Carolyn G. Keene

Mildred Wirt Benson, the first of many to write under the name Carolyn Keene. University Archives. Dept. of Special Collections. University of Iowa Libraries.
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jean Kerr

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

Inkpot Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Francis Scott Key

Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Eds. of Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Jerome Lawrence

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Louis S. B. Leakey


Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Gentry Lee

Image credit: NASA/JPL
(nasa.gov)
Gypsy Rose Lee

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

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

Pete Souza
J. Patrick Lewis

Art Linkletter

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
H. P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lucretius

Deborah Madison

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ed. George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Willie Mays

Willie Mays with arm around shoulders of Roy Campanella/photo by William C. Greene: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-112029)

Anne McCaffrey

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
Dave McKean

Photo taken by Kris A. Celario, can be viewed on
Flikred. Judith Merril

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
James A. Michener

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

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
ed. Philip D. Morehead

Wikipedia
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Laura Joffe Numeroff

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Amarin
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
C. Northcote Parkinson

Gordon Parks

James Patterson

Anne Perry

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
H. Beam Piper

Photo from Murder in the Gunroom (1953) dust jacket
Plato

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

ed. Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Gerald Posner

Jerry Pournelle

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
ed. Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Ayn Rand

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Mary Roberts Rinehart

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Henry M. Robert

photographer unknown
Jane Roberts

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Frank Robinson

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to baseball legend Frank Robinson in the East Room Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005. White House photo by Paul Morse
(whitehouse.gov)
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Gene Roddenberry

Listening to fans after his lecture at the Student Union of the University of Texas at Austin, ca. 1978. Photograph by Larry D. Moore.
Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodger (at piano) with Lorenz Hart, 1936, World Telegram photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-122089)
J. K. Rowling

Fred Saberhagen

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert

Carl Sagan

Felix Salten

Stephen J. Sansweet

Kevin Tostado
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)

Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Randal L. Schwartz

By Derrick Story.
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Robert L. Scott Jr.

Wikipedia (U.S. Army Photo)
David O. Selznick

World Telegram photo by Edward Lynch, 1940 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121486)
Maurice Sendak

Rod Serling

Used by permission of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation

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 ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sidney Sheldon

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Nevil Shute

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

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

National Geographic Society

Sophocles

Benjamin Spock

MDCarchives
Allen M. Steele

Geoffrey A. Landis
Wallace Earle Stegner

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
George R. Stewart

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

www.nerowolfe.org
Theodore Sturgeon

W. Sturgeon
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

J. R. R. Tolkien

Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
G.B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Andrew Turnbull

Andrew Turnbull, 1962. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Samuel L. Clemens

from Wikipedia
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. van Vogt

John Burlinson
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Kurt Vonnegut

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Larry Wall

David Weber

Len Wein

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE. B. White

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

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
1969 Eastercon (British National Science Fiction Convention),
Oxford, England.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Oscar Wilde

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Jack Williamson

Richard Wilson

www.chrismsaunders.com
Robert Anton Wilson

Flickr user dbuk2
Sloan Wilson

Tom Wolfe

ed. Donald A. Wollheim

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

Wikipedia

Patricia Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Jane Yolen

Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Chic Young

From "What's In the New York Evening Journal," Project Gutenberg
Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
Elmo Zumwalt Jr.

Portrait photograph by PHC W. Mason (1970), Naval Historical Center
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