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Anon.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

William Harrison Ainsworth

Project Gutenberg
Brian Wilson Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Hans Christiaan Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Lynn V. Andrews

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Anonymous

"Anonymous," sculpture by Miklós Ligeti, 1903, Budapest. Photo by R. Grau.
Piers Anthony

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Peter Christen Asbjornsen

wikimedia commons
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Freya Aswynn

Freya Aswynn.www.aswynn.co.uk
Cicely Mary Barker

Francis Barrett

John Barth

Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Annie Wood Besant

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

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Philip E.I. Bonewits

Ray Bradbury

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Gregg Braden

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gillian Bradshaw

J. H. Brennan

Charlotte Bronte

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
John Brunner

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

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Raymond Buckland

Algis Budrys

Shunn
Thomas Bulfinch

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Carl Van Vechten
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
John Ramsey Campbell

Tony

Wikipedia
Fritjof Capra

Carroll Lewis

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Ann Chamberlin

Photo by Kathleen Dougherty
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Checkhov Anton

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

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Barbara Hand Clow

Paulo Coelho

Coomaraswamy Ananda Kentish

Aleister Crowley

Nicholas Culpeper

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

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Phyllis Curott

Bruce Fields
Clive Cussler

Roald Dahl

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 20, 1954 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number, LC-USZ62-116610)
Erich Von Daniken

by Michal Maňas
L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Sorita d'Este

Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Gardner Dozois

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
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)
T. S. Eliot

Masaru Emoto

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Von Eschenbach Wolfram

Codex Manesse (c.1300)
J.S. Lefanu

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Jonathan Fast

http://www.yu.edu/faculty/fast/
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Anna-Marie Ferguson

Piero Ferrucci

photo by Ilaria Cotogni
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
John Fowles

Sir James George Frazer

Max Frisch

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

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
J.F.C. Fuller

Image from Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer (1919) by Sir Albert Gerald Stern
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Gardenstone

Gardenstone
Mrs. Gaskell

William John Thomson
Shakti Gawain

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Wikipédia France
William Golding

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Deborah Gray

Courtesy of http://www.deborahgray.com/
John Gray

Jacob Grimm

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

James Gunn

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganH. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Christine Hall

Tiffany Studio (1994).
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
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Paul Hawken

Robert A. Heinlein

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 Herbert

© Pan Macmillan
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Richard Kirk

Radioflux, 2004
Robert E. Howard

Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
L. Ron Hubbard

Oliver Madox Hueffer

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Ronald Hutton

Courtesy of Ronald Hutton.
Henrik Ibsen

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

Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Carl Gustav (1875-1961) Jung

Rudyard Kipling

R. A. Lafferty

DeepSouthCon, 1978.
Hubert Lampo

D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T.E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four Portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Fritz Leiber

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

Charles Godfrey Leland, circa 1853
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Eliphas Levi

Wikipedia
C. S. Lewis

Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Penelope Lively

H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Graham Masterton

Georges Seguin
S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Richard Matheson

Anne McCaffrey

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

Used by permission of the author.
John Michell

John Michell
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)
Czeslaw Milosz, Editor and Translator

MDCarchives
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Nostradamus

Portrait of Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus), Painted by his son César de Nostredame about 1614 A.D.
George Orwell

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

James Pike. From The scout and ranger: being the personal adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. (1865)
Jean Plaidy

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Pohl Frederik

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Rachel Pollack

Jerry Pournelle

Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
A T Quiller Couch

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

Meladina
C. Rajagopalachari

Ayn Rand

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

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Mary Renault

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Hans Richter

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

copyright John Mason.
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Fred Saberhagen

Carl Sagan

J. D. Salinger

EF Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bob Shaw

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

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Bernie S. Siegel

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
Dr. Benjamin Spock

MDCarchives
Starhawk

photo by Bert Meijer
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Leon E. (ed) Stover

Dr. Leon Stover in his library at IIT, Chicago
Whitley Strieber

Rabindranath Tagore

c1917 photograph
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-95518)
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Dylan Thomas

Time Life

Time & Life Sculpture, Manhattan, New York. Photo by Jeremy Keith / Flickr
J.R.R. Tolkien

Lillian Too

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Thomas Tryon

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

Credit: Rita Molnár, Cannes Film Festival, 2000
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A.E.Van Vogt

John Burlinson
Various

John Varley

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Swami Vivekananda

Please check wikimedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swami_Vivekananda-1893-09-signed.jpg for more details
Richard Von Volkmann

Arthur Edward Waite

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

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Evangeline Walton

From WikipediaThis is a family photograph taken of Evangeline Ensley in the 1930s. As the literary representative of Walton's literary estate and a cousin, I scanned it for use in Walton's wikipedia entry and for Creative Commons CC-BY-SA use.
Alan W. Watts

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Max Weber

Andrew Weil

John R. Ziemann
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJames White

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

Charles Williams

Jack Williamson

Raymond Williams

Credit: Ederyn Williams
Colin Wilson

Tom Ordelman, 1984
Yevtushenko

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Gary Zukav

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
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