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Jessica Abel

Luigi Novi
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Ryunosuke Akutagawa

António Lobo Antunes

www.mathieu-bourgois.com

Guillaume Apollinaire

Wikipédia France
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michael Bakunin

Photo by Félix Nadar (Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Stephen Batchelor

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Jean Baudrillard

Credit: European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 12, 2004
Jennifer Baumgardner

Samuel Beckett

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Jorge Luis Borges

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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
Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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


Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Chris Carlsson

self-portrait on Hawk Hill over Golden Gate, 2005.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Charles Chesnutt

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

from Wikipedia
Ward Churchill

Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr
Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Paulo Coelho

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

from Wikipedia
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Guy Debord

Samuel R. Delaney

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
John W. Dower

Columbia University
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
George Eliot

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

Carl Elliott, "The Cost of Courage" ~ Congressional Portrait Collection, Library of Congress
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison

Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
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
Gustave Flaubert

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Michel Foucault

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Jonathan Franzen

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Max Frisch

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

from Wikimedia Commons
William Gaddis

William Gass / Washington University
Rivka Galchen

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
William Gibson

André Gide

1893
William Golding

Juan Goytisolo

Peter Groth
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Brian Greene

Graham Greene

Michael Green

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.)
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Danny Gregory

Andrea Scher

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
James Hilton

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

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Pattrice Jones

Terry Jones

Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Peter Kropotkin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Madame de La Fayette

Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
David Lewis

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.)
Sinclair Lewis

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

Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Maureen F. McHugh

China Mieville


Henry Miller

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Prosper Mérimée

Wikipédia France

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Amelie Nothomb


Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Flannery O'Connor

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Lynn Peril

Photo by Jane Townley.
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Jerzy Pilch

Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Marcel Proust

Thomas Pynchon

Tom Robbins

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Merce Rodoreda

Borja Vilallonga (1997).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Juan Rulfo

Jean-Paul Sartre

Georges Simenon

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Zadie Smith

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Alfred Tennyson

Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Naomi Wolf

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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