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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Samuel Hopkins Adams

From "How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science" (Fisher & Fisk, 1916)
Project Gutenberg
Louisa May Alcott

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

copyright David Alexander
Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
William Barclay

courtesy of the William Barclay Lectureship Trust
Edward l. beach

U.S. Navy
Ruth Fulton Benedict

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) 1937 staff photo (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-114649)
John Bierman

Larry Bond

Corrie Ten Boom

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.)
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
Dale Brown

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Lloyd M., Bucher

U.S. Naval Historical Center photo
(history.navy.mil)
Pearl S Buck

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

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

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-50425)
Jack Canfield

Eye on Books
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John Le Carre

Willa Sibert Cather

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

Oswald Chambers

Anton Chekhov

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

Sir Winston S. Churchill

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, Dec. 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ont.
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-165806)
Tom Clancy

Champ Clark

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-27529)
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (9-9-2005), cropped. Photo by Anuradha Ratnaweera (anuradha on flickr.com)
Mary Higgins Clark

Eye on Books
David Cohen

Gage Skidmore
William L. Coleman

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.)
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Stephen Coonts

Eye on Books
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Kevin Costner

Photo credit: SSgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr. (USAF), July 21, 2003
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
John Creasey

Courtesy of John Creasey Literary Management Limited
Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganClive Cussler

Richard Henry Dana

John Darnton

J. Player
Clarence Day

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
L. Sprague De Camp

Cimon Avaro
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Dictionary

Photo by Bethany King / Flickr
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
James C. Dobson

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.)
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Elizabeth Drew

Library of Congress
Sylvia A. Earle

Coastal America / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
George Eliot

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

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

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Forsyth

Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Dick Francis

Karl Von Frisch

Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressDaniel V. Gallery

USS Guadalcanal Task Force 22.3 Association (candotg.org) (via Wikipedia)
Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Billy Graham

Russell Busby
Andrew M. Greeley

from wikipedia
James E Gunn

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

Wikipedia
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Rick Harbaugh

Photo courtesy of Rick Harbaugh
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
David Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Chaim Herzog

www.president.gov.il
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Christopher Hibbert

Jack Higgins

James Hilton

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

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
William Hone

William Hone. Frontispiece from William Hone; his life and times (1912) by Frederick William Hackwood.
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
Vicki Igham

Texas Instruments

Alan Mak
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
James Joyce

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

Rudyard Kipling

Dean Koontz

Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Harper Lee

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-121597
Allison K. Leopold

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Leslie Linsley

Jon Aron
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Robert Ludlum

Martin Luther

Patricia MacLachlan

Library of Congress
Mao Tse-Tung

from Wikipedia
Alfred Marshall

Economist Alfred Marshall
James Martin

Photo of Fr. James Martin SJ
Photo Credit: Tatyana Borodina
Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Charles McCarry

Kevin M. McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy (photo by Jane Anderson Jones)
Rod McKuen

McKuen with Grete Keller: Image ©
ÖNB/WienHerman Melville

from Wikipedia
James A. Michener

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

wikipedia
Robert Moss

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Charles Panati

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard at Dick Brown's house in Kansas City
Victoria Holt

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

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-106862 DLC
Helen Steiner Rice

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.)
Norman Rockwell

Sax Rohmer

Carl Sagan

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
John Sandford

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 ArtHershel Shanks

Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Georges Simenon

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

Helen Simpson

Derek Thompson
Betty Smith

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

National Geographic Society

Albert speer

John Steinbeck

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

c. 1885
Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

W. Sturgeon
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Kip S. Thorne

Keenan Pepper
Time-Life Books

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

Alex Trebek

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joseph R. Schmitt
(cropped)
(defenseimagery.mil)
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tze

Sun Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Vergil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Joseph Wambaugh

Steven Weinberg

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Jonathan Weiner

Columbia University
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
John Archibald Wheeler

John Archibald Wheeler, courtesy Princeton University Weekly Bulletin.
Walt Whitman

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Kate Douglas Wiggin

Project Gutenberg
Tad Williams

Owen Wister

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
Tom Wolfe

Herman Wouk

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

Majonaise
Edward Yourdon

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