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Edward Abbey

Mario Acevedo

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long

Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Henri Alain-Fournier

Wikipédia France
Mitch Albom

Taken at Barnes and Noble on 11-16-06 at book signing by Oklahomabook lady
Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Ilona Andrews

Lori Balfe
Sergio Aragones

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Philip Ardagh

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Aristophanes

Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Kelley Armstrong

Picture of Kelley Armstrong provided by her.
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Ingeborg Bachmann

Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
J.M. Barrie

Dave Barry

Frank L. Baum

Library of Congress
Georg Büchner

Ludwig Bechstein

Standort: Literaturmuseum Baumbachhaus, Meiningen
Hy Bender

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Ambrose Bierce

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

Thomas Phillips
Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Edward Bloor

Wikipedia user abreed
Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Volker Braun

October 2006
Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Bertolt Brecht

Alfred Brehm

Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
Tor A. Bringsvaerd

Wikimedia Commons
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
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)
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Max Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Joy Browne

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Art Buchwald

Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Wilhelm Busch

Selfportrait (1894)
Jim Butcher

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Trudi Canavan

Photo by Paul Ewins
Orson Scott Card

Jacqueline Carey

George Carlin

Lewis Carroll

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Karen Chance

Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Susanna Clarke

Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
J. M. Coetzee

Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Jenny Colgan

Author photo by Graham Jepson
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Anderson Cooper

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007

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)
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Richard Dawkins

Jo Dereske

Courtesy of the author
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Roman Dirge

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

from Wikipedia
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Pierre Dubois

Photo by user Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons
Dave Duncan

www.daveduncan.com
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Josef Frhr. von Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
George Eliot

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

Ian Gittler
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Janet Evanovich

flickr user sogroovynow
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Jimmy Fallon

Credit: David Shankbone, April 25, 2007
Christine Feehan

David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Joy Fielding

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Jean de LaFontaine

Wikipédia France
E. M Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
John Fowles

Max Frisch

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

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressCornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE
Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo

Neil Gaiman

Mike Gayle

Photo by Liane Hentscher
Robert Gernhardt

Michael Ströhle (2001)
William Gibson

Anthony Giddens

This picture was taken at the Progressive Governance Conference at Budapest, 13 October, 2004. The author of the picture is Szusi.
Hans R. Giger

JaSunni
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Friedrich Glauser

Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Paul Gravett

Photo by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin
Graham Greene

Gebrüder Grimm

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a40574 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a40574, REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-40235 (b&w film copy neg.)
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Ursula K. Le Guin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Laurell K. Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
Gerhart Hauptmann

Perry-Castaneda Library, UofTexas/Austin
Ethan Hawke

2002 Brigitte Lacombe
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)
Lauren Henderson

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
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.

Hermann Hesse

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

Tony Hillerman

Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
James Hilton

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

World Telegram & Sun photo by Fred Palumbo, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121483)
Christopher Hitchens

Ernst Th. A. Hoffmann

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Wolfgang Hohlbein

wikipedia
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Ödön von Horvath

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
L. Ron Hubbard

Tanya Huff

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Eric Idle

Photo by Tom E. Canavan
Arnaldur Indridason

Eugène Ionesco


John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Shirley Jackson

A. J. Jacobs

Al Jaffee

MoCCA Art Festival 2009, photo by Lampbane
Henry James

Wikipedia
Peter Jennings

Cropped from a photo of Jennings interviewing Eric Bost, Undersecretary of Agriculture (2002).
Jewel Kilcher

Aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Harry S. Truman in
the Mediterranean, Dec. 16, 2000
(Photo taken by Linda D. Kozaryn)
Joseph Joffo

Dinkley
Terry Jones

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Robert Kagan

Claudio Vazquez
Nicholas J. Karolides

University of Wisconsin-River Falls Faculty Page
Alex Kava

Deborah Gro
Philipp Keel

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Jack Kerouac

Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Heinrich von Kleist

Dean R. Koontz

Klaus Kordon

Photo by Hans Peter Schaefer / Wikimedia Commons
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Jon Krakauer

Photo by Roman Dial for Sundance Channel - Sean Penn & Jon Krakauer in Alaska filming the Sundance Channel original series
Iconoclasts produced by Sundance Channel & Grey Goose
Walter Krämer

from the author
Erich Kästner

Erich Kästner with young people, 1954. Image ©
ÖNB/Wien Milan Kundera

Dalai Lama XIV.

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
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
Lora Leigh

Siegfried Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Michael Lesy

JACQUELINE HAYDEN
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Clive Staples Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Sergej Lukianenko

Wikipedia
Katie MacAlister

Karen MacInerney

kennethgall.com
Charles Mackay

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R. R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Richard Matheson

Guy de Maupassant

Daphne DuMaurier

Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Kai Meyer

Photo by Hans Peter Schaefer / Wikimedia Commons.
James A. Michener

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

Arthur Miller

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

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
Henry Miller

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

photo by Dina Salah
John Milton


David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Molière

Wikipédia France
Lucy Maud Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Terry Moore

John Burlinson, Nov. 4, 2007
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Grant Morrison

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Prosper Mérimée

Wikipédia France

Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Mike Myers

photo by Alan Light
Vladimir Nabokov

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

El Capitan and Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California
pdphoto.orgE. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anaïs Nin

Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganChristine Nöstlinger

Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
J. O'Barr

Luigi Novi
George Orwell

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

Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Amanda Palmer

Amanda M Hatfield
Robert B. Parker

James Patterson

Gudrun Pausewang

Photo by user Zefram / Wikimedia Commons
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Iain Pears

Stef Penney

Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Robert M. Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-3862)
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Helen Prejean

John B. Priestley

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Ellery Queen

Frederic Dannay (left, one half of "Ellery Queen") with James Yaffe, World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Aumuller, 1943 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-126102)
Ayn Rand

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

James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Christopher Reeve

Photo taken by Walt Grogan
Kathy Reichs

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Kat Richardson

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
J. D. Robb

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Dennis Rodman

Flickr user huangweiqing
Jules Romains

Jules Romains, 1936. Photo by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Davy Rothbart

Photo taken by Dorothy Gotlib.
Patrick Rothfuss

By Jamie Rothfuss
J.K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Carl Sagan

Lilith Saintcrow

The Author
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jerome D. Salinger

Brandon Sanderson

Lynsay Sands

Image copyright Dave Ramage
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Joscha Sauer

Fritz Saalfeld, © 2004, 2006
Friedrich von Schiller

Harald Schmidt

Harald Schmidt, after the Ludwig Börne Award Ceremony, Frankfurt am Main, 2007. Photo by user dontworry / Wikimedia Commons.
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Roger Lebacq
Frank Schätzing

Photo by user Chí Khang / Vietnamese Wikipedia
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Anna Seghers

Photo by Joachim Spremberg. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F0114-0204-004)
O. Sevcik

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sidney Sheldon

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Bastian Sick

Bastian Sick in April 2008 - Picture by Flominator (Florian Straub)
Silver

Jaqen
Dave Sim

From Wikipedia
Georges Simenon

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

Elena Seibert
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Jeff Smith

Photo by Fritz Saalfield, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Thorne Smith

Wilbur Smith

Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
National Geographic Society

Johanna Spyri

John Steinbeck

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

Kelly Weaver Photography/ Denver
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Morton Rhue

Todd Strasser, pen name Morton Rhue (photo credit: Effi Schweizer, March 9, 2006)
Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Hunter S. Thompson

Jill Thompson

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
John Tierney

Center for American Progress
Alexis de Tocqueville

Wikipedia Commons
Emmanuel Todd

Author:
Legermi http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legermi
John R. R. Tolkien

Leo N. Tolstoi

public domain
Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Georg Trakl

Jonathan Tropper

JonathanTropper.com
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Thomas Tryon

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

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Peter Ustinov

Gordon Van Gelder

Photo (c) 2004 by Al Bogdan (Wikipedia)
Various

Brian K. Vaughan

By Daniel M. Kanemoto.
Carrie Vaughn

by Timony Siobhan.
Boris Vian

collection privée Ursula Vian Kübler
avec la permission de la fondation Boris Vian
Vickers Salley

Voltaire

Kurt Vonnegut

Horace Walpole

Brad Warner

Frank Warren

Eye on Books
Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
Max Weber

Jordan Weisman

Photo by Justin Hall, 2006 (Wikipedia)
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Scott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer

Credit: David Shankbone, May 2008
E. B. White

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

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

Tad Williams

Bill Willingham

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
F. Paul Wilson

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Pelham G. Wodehouse

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Irvin D. Yalom

Reid Yalom
W.B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane Yolen

Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Howard Zinn

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

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
Stefan Zweig

Franz Löwy (1920) ©
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