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U2

Picture provided by Zachary Gillman, Madison Square Garden, NYC, Nov. 21, 2005
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Edward Albee

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Tori Amos

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Darren Aronofsky

Jeff Karpala (Source: Flickr)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Samuel Beckett

Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Bono

Robert Scoble
Ray Bradbury

TIM BURTON

Wikimedia Commons.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Truman Capote

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

John Burlinson, 9/21/08.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Peter David

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Margaret Edson

Columbia University
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
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)
Bill Flanagan

Gustave Flaubert

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Neil Gaiman

Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Vincent Van Gogh

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:VanGogh_1887_Selbstbildnis.jpg?uselang=de
William Golding

Al Gore

Wikipedia
Jacob Grimm

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

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Edith Hamilton

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hermann Hesse

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
A. J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksNicholas J. Karolides

University of Wisconsin-River Falls Faculty Page
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

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

from Wikipedia
C. S. Lewis

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Arthur Miller

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

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Eugene O'Neill

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

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Nancy Peske

Monty Stilson
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

michaelpollan.com
Ayn Rand

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

The Heart Truth
Norman Rockwell

Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
J.K. Rowling

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Harriet Beech Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Peter Berresford Ellis

The International Sister Fidelma Society
Lao Tze

Sun Tzu

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Oscar Wilde

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

Wikipedia
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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