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Edward Abbey

Lynn Abbey

Taken in 1989.
Peter Abrahams

(c) Dan Cutrona
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

Flickr user annafdd
Lloyd Alexander

Gene Ambaum

Photo provided by Gene Ambaum
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Mary Kay Andrews

HarperCollins
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino

Jane Austen

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

Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Enid Bagnold

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

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh website
Bill Barnes

Photo provided by Bill Barnes
K. P. Bath

Linda Berdoll

Carol Berg

Jo Beverley

Picture from Word Wenches website
Maeve Binchy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
Edward Bloor

Wikipedia user abreed
Judy Blume

Wayne Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Elizabeth Boyle

Photo from author website
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Herbie Brennan

Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Connie Brockway

Photo by Heidi Enalt
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)
Terry Brooks

Hester Browne

Robert Browning

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

Joi Ito
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Robert Byrne

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
David Cannadine

Kristofer Dan Bergman
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

Janet Lee Carey

Photo by Heidi Pettit
Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Cecil Castellucci

Photo by Craig Wadlin
P.C. Cast

P. C Cast
Karen Chance

Loretta Chase

From LorettaChase.com
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Cinda W. Chima

Photo by Pamela Z. Daum
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Chris Claremont

Minneapolis Comic Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Susanna Clarke

Lucille Clifton

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Suzanne Collins

Cap Pryor
Anna Comnena

Byzantine Mosaic
Catherine Coulter

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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

Jennifer Crusie

Photo by Jennifer Maler
Chris Crutcher

Photo courtesy of Chris Crutcher.
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)
Paula Danziger

Paula Danziger at Hammick's Bookshop (Harrow UK)
Cecilia Dart-Thornton

CDT
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Peter David

MaryJanice Davidson

copyright MJ Alonghi
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons
Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Christina Dodd

Mary Mapes Dodge

Stephen R. Donaldson

John Donne

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

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop
Alexandre Dumas

Kate Elliott

Used by permission of Kate Elliot
Ralph Ellison

Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Paul Fleischman

Copyright © 2006 by Dana Fleischman
Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Kate Forsyth

Used with Permission, Copyright by Galaxy Bookshop.
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Lori Foster

Courtesy Lori Foster.
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Valerie Frankel

Photo by Stephen Quint
Ariana Franklin

Mary Jane Russell
Charles Frazier

Cornelia Caroline Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo
Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Diana GarcÃa

Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Rachel Gibson

William Goldman

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

Terry Goodkind

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Jacob Grimm

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

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Mette Harrison

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Dolores Hayden

doloreshayden.com
Robert A. Heinlein

Lisa Hendrix

Author photo by Christopher J. Happel/Studio 16
Christopher Hibbert

Robin Hobb

Wendy Holden

Linda Howard

Photo © Brian Velenchenko
Elizabeth Hoyt

Jon Dessen, Illini Studio
Tanya Huff

Eva Ibbotson

Lisa Jackson

© 2002-2006 Lisa Jackson
Brian Jacques

Eloisa James

Amanda Stevenson Lupke
Penn Jillette

Photo credit: Alan Light, 1988
Jean de Joinville

Tamara Siler Jones

Photo by Jeremy Lassen
Terry Jones

Robert Jordan

Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Rudyard Kipling

Russell Kirkpatrick

Russell Kirkpatrick
Jim Kjelgaard

home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.htm
Dean Koontz

Betina Krahn

coutesy of the author
Amanda Quick

Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-®dzin-rgya-mtsho

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Derek Landy

Derek Landy (on right). Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
David Langford

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Stephanie Laurens

photo by Sigrid Estrada
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edith Layton

photo credit: Lisa Whiteman; from author's website
Harper Lee

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

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
C. S. Lewis

Charles DeLint

By Leslie Howle
Marjorie M. Liu

Photo by user pinguino k / Flickr
E. Lockhart

Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Lisa Lutz

Katie MacAlister

George MacDonald

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.)
Melissa Marr

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Carol Matas

Ruth Bonneville
Daphne duMaurier

Mercer Mayer

Courtesy of Mercer Mayer
Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Anthony McGowan

Fiona McIntosh

Georges Seguin
Dennis L. McKiernan

Silhouette Studios, Tucson, AZ
Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Lisa McMann

photo by Allison Massie
Barbara Metzger

From author website, BarbaraMetzger.com
Fern Michaels

Kasey Michaels

Kasey Michaels website
Karen Miller

Mary GT Webber
Linda Lael Miller

John Hall Photography
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Catherine Murdock

Photo by Greg Martin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Mary Noble Ours
Willie Nelson

E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Garth Nix

Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Anthony O'Neill

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Susan Patron

James Patterson

Richard Peck

Ty Pennington

Photo credit: Master Sgt. Tommie Baker, USAF
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Susan Elizabeth Phillips webpage photo cropped
Tamora Pierce

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Jack Prelutsky

Library of Congress
Julia Quinn

Rex Rystedt/Seattlephoto.com
Robert Rankin

Jennifer Rardin

Cindy Pringle
Natasha Rhodes

Patricia Rice

Patricia Rice
Kat Richardson

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
J. D. Robb

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Davy Rothbart

Photo taken by Dorothy Gotlib.
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
J. K. Rowling

Lilith Saintcrow

The Author
J.D. Salinger

Brandon Sanderson

Lynsay Sands

Image copyright Dave Ramage
Jon Scieszka

Brian Selznick

Credit: Sharon Aperto, Sept. 28, 2008, Children's Book Day, Tarrytown, NY (image use requires permission)
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 ArtVittorio Sgarbi

Elena Torre
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Sharon Shinn

Margaret Sidney

Harriett Mulford (Stone) Lothrop [pen-name Margaret Sidney] (b.1844), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Sean Stewart

Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
Gene Stratton-Porter

Ball State University
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Cass R. Sunstein

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Mike Thaler

mikethaler.com
Diane Thiel

Library of Congress
Sherry Thomas

Author photo by Jennifer Sparks Harriman at Sparks Studio.
Henry David Thoreau

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
P. L. Travers

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Natasha D. Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.org
Megan Whalen Turner

R.E.S.
Dan Chernenko

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Ursu

anneursu.com
Carrie Vaughn

by Timony Siobhan.
Jules Verne

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

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Gertrude Chandler Warner

Courtesy of Kidsreads.com
Lawrence Watt-Evans

by Julie Evans, copyright 2006, all rights
reserved, used by permission.
David Weber

Jennifer Weiner

http://www.jenniferweiner.com
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
E. B. White

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

Project Gutenberg
Ysabeau S. Wilce

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Oscar Wilde

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Lauren Willig

courtesy www.laurenwillig.com
P. G. Wodehouse

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b

Janny Wurts

Photo by Don Maitz
Gene Luen Yang

Library of Congress
Frank Yerby

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

Liz Young

Gabrielle Zevin

Aaron Eckhart
Paul Zindel

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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