Vaysh's authors: 825 authors | 317 with pictures | 508 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Kjell Albin Abrahamsson

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
John Ajvide Lindqvist

Louisa M. Alcott

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

Dorothy Allison

Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Sean Astin

Sean Astin and family (Stefan Servos, 2003).
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

Johan Bengtsson
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Max Barry

© dejahthoris : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Max_Barry_1.JPG
Drew Barrymore

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Paul Beatty

www.dentontaylor.com
Brooklyn Lit Festival 2008
Alison Bechdel

Photo by Greg Martin
Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Holly Black

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
David Bowie

Arthur, September 25, 2006
Rebecca Flanders

www.donnaaball.net
Karin Boye

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Ann Brashares

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
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
Geraldine Brooks

Max Brooks

Terry Brooks

Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Sandra Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
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
Andrew M. Butler

Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Lorenzo Carcaterra

Eye on Books
Lewis Carroll


Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Barbara Cartland

P. C. Cast

P. C Cast
Aidan Chambers

Photo by Chris Robertson
Stephen Chbosky

Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Charlie Christensen

Jan Ainali
Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Rachel Cohn

Eoin Colfer

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

Cap Pryor
John Connolly

Eye on Books
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Dennis Cooper

Bill Cosby

U.S. Navy photo by Mr. Scott King (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Doris Dahlin

Suz
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)
Robert Darnton

Princeton University
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

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

Roman Dirge

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Stephen R. Donaldson


Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Unni Drougge

Rotsee
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Ralph Ellison


Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
Rupert Everett

Vicki Neave
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
J. LeFanu, Sheridan

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Raymond E. Feist

Georges Seguin
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Lynn Flewelling

Photo by Richard Wicka © 2005
Gillian Flynn

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Kate Fox

Maggie Hannan
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Charles Frazier

Inger Frimansson

Foto Dag Sundberg
Alexandra Fuller


Diana Gabaldon

Photo by Nancy Castaldo

Neil Gaiman

E. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Jonas Gardell

Jonas Gardell (on right), with Mark Levengood. Image by: Maria Näsström.
Jean Genet

Susan George

William Gibson

N.V. Gogol

Photo by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, circa 1880-1886
(George Kennan Papers,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-128270)
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Laurie Graham

LESLEY GARRETT POWELL
Sara Gran

Robert Urh
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Winston Groom

Tom Corcoran
Jan Guillou

Wikimedia Commons
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Emma Hamberg

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Laurell K. Hamilton

Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Dick Harrison

Wikipedia Commons, photographer Kenneth Jansson
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
Kathy Harrison

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Harris

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
A. F. Th. van der Heijden

Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Joe Hill

Shane Leonard (2006)
Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
James Hilton

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

http://www.kristiholl.com/images/image002.jpg
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Nick Hornby

Elizabeth Hoyt

Jon Dessen, Illini Studio
Tanya Huff

Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Rotsee
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl

Shirley Jackson

Rona Jaffe

John Jakes

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksKay Redfield Jamison

Richard Wyatt
Tove Jansson

Memorial Plaque, Helsinki, Finland. Photo by user CarstenH / German Wikiedia.
Cheryl St. John

Lifetouch
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Terry Jones

Anneli Jordahl

Rotsee
Franz Kafka

Martin Kellerman

Michael Kellerman & Gunar Sveen (strand comics)
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Laurie R. King

www.laurierking.com
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Dean Koontz

Gordon Korman

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Valley Cottage, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2006 (all rights reserved)
Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Nicola Kraus

Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
Selma Lagerlöf

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

Soppakanuuna
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Harper Lee

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Julius Lester

Mark Levengood

Anneli Salo
C.S. Lewis

Herman Lindqvist

Lennart Guldbrandsson
Sven Lindqvist

Erlend Loe

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 9, 2007
Norah Lofts

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

Ivar Lo-Johansson (right) with Harry Martinson
Photo: Gunnar Lundh (1940)
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Viveca Lärn

Hannibal
Sam J. Lundwall [ed]

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Michelle Magorian

www.michellemagorian.com/
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Marilyn Manson

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Moa Martinson

Statue of Moa Martinsson at Grytstorget, Norrköping, Sweden. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Thuresson (2006)
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Bobbie Ann Mason

Richard Matheson

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Katarina Mazetti

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Colleen McCullough

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Arthur Miller

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

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

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Vilhelm Moberg

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

Photo by A. Monette
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Viggo Mortensen

Mortensen at the world premiere of "The Fellowship of the Ring" in Wellington, New Zealand. Photo by
Stefan ServosKate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Vicki Myron

Photo by Library Thing member Davidt8

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Edith Nesbit
Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter

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
Flannery O'Connor

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Sören Olsson

Credit: Hannibal (Wikipedia user), Gothenburg Book Fair 2007
Eugene O'Neill

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

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
Christopher O´Regan

Jan Ainali
Judith O'Reilly

Photo by Alastair McCall
George Orwell

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

Elaine Hiesey Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 1996 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Chuck Palahniuk

Photograph by Michael G. Khmelnitsky.
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
M. J. Pearson

MJ Pearson
Dave Pelzer

Petronius Arbiter

Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia

Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Douglas Preston

John Burlinson, Jan. 19, 2008
Annie Proulx

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

Jamie Pullman
Anna Quindlen

Robert Rankin

Piers Paul Read

Marcus Rediker

Used with permission from author, Marcus Rediker.

Mary Renault

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Ben Rice

Christopher Rice

"A Density of Souls" author Christopher Rice photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Lee Rowan


J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Viktor Rydberg

Abraham Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895), 1876 photograph
Geoff Ryman

JP K1001
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Marquis de Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Margit Sandemo

Wikimedia Commons
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Jerry Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )
Photo by Alan Light, 44th Emmy Awards, August 1992
(Flickr attribution license)
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Nevil Shute

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

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Dan Simmons

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Wesley Stace

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Ulf Stark

Lennart Guldbrandsson
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

August STRINDBERG

From Wikimedia Commons
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Lalita Tademy

Library of Congress

Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Hunter S. Thompson

J.R.R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

Keith Topping

Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Voltaire

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Sarah Waters

Photo by Charlie Hopkinson
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienScott Westerfeld

Photo by Samantha Jones
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Joss Whedon

Credit: Raven Underwood, 2005
Edmund White


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.
Tad Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Jacqueline Wilson

Library of Congress
Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
P.G. Wodehouse

Stuart Woods

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
Bart Yates

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