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Edward Abbey

Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia

Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Robert Adams

With permission of Mundania Press. http://www.mundania.com
Scott Adams

Aeschylus

Fouad Ajami

Photograph by Anne Mandelbaum
Brian Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Steve Alten

Eric Ambler

John Burlinson
Kingsley Amis

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

Michael P. Sauers
Sherwood Anderson

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

Heli12
Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Issac Asimov

©Rowena
Jean M. Auel

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Robert T. Bakker

From Wikipedia
J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Alessandro Barbero

J.M. Barrie

T. A. Barron

Count Basie

Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Samuel Beckett

Frank Beddor

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Bede

Brian Michael Bendis

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
Gregory Benford

Steve Berry

Steve Berry
Ambrose Bierce

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Anne Bishop

Anne Bishop's Official Website
Lewis Black


Algernon Blackwood

Courtesy of The Literary Gothic
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Loyd Blankenship

From Wikipedia
Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Robert Bly

Nic McPhee
Ancius Boethius

W. E. B. Du Bois

Photo by Cornelius M. Battey, 1918 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-16767)
Ben Bova

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

H. W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
David Brin

By R. Feist
Terry Brooks

Dee Brown

John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Thomas Bulfinch

Anthony Burgess

Bryan Burrough


Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Kurt Busiek

Photo by khaosworks
Jim Butcher

Sheree Bykofsky

Ann Sanfedele
Jesse L. Byock

James Branch Cabell

Carl Van Vechten
Meg Cabot

photo by Becky Rech
Pat Cadigan

Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Julius Caesar

public domain
James M. Cain

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

cheatingculture.com
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ramsey Campbell

Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Truman Capote

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

George Carlin

John Le Carré

Lewis Carroll

Howard Carter

Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Robert W. Chambers

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

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Agatha Christie

Andrew Chugg

Andrew Chugg in front of an ancient wall in the Shallalat Gardens in Alexandria, March 2008
Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

David Clement-Davies

Eoin Colfer

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Confucius

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Glen Cook

Photo by Martin Tepley (Wikipedia)
Monte Cook

James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Merian C. Cooper

nationalmuseum.af.mil
Le Corbusier

David Corn

Stewart Cowley

Aleister Crowley

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Clive Cussler

John Darnton

J. Player
Charles Darwin

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

Richard Dawkins

L. Sprague de Camp

Cimon Avaro
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Troy Denning

Troy Denning, Lucas Comics & Games, 2007.
Photo by user torre.elena / flickr.
August Derleth

Charles Dickens

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

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

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Paul Dini

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con, photo by Lampbane
Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
E.L. Doctorow

Ignatius Donnelly

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster

Lord Dunsany

Copyright by Morrall-Hoole Studios, 1919
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-103850)
(retouched to remove writing)
Jeanne DuPrau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Einhard

from Wikipedia
Harlan Ellison

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
P. N. Elrod

www.vampwriter.com
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Lion Feuchtwanger

Deutsche Post der DDR
Jude Fisher

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)

Ian Fleming

Eric Flint

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Allan Folsom

John M. Ford

John M. Ford, 2003. Photo by David Dyer-Bennet / Wikimedia Commons.
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Matt Fraction

Marvel: Dark Reign panel, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Jean Froissart

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

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (on left). John Atherton, 1966
David Gemmell

William Gibson

H. R. Giger

JaSunni
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Seth Godin

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
William Goldman

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

Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Jacob Grimm

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

Gage Skidmore
Ursula K. Le Guin

Gary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Edith Hamilton


Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Harper Collins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Ray Harryhausen

San Diego Comic-Con 2006
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganB. H. Liddell Hart

carl.army.mil
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Vaclav Havel

Department of Defense photo by Helene C. Stikkel.
Chris Hedges

Robert A. Heinlein

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)
Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert.
Photograph by Janet Herbert.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.

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.
Hesiod

Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Charlie Higson

Chester Himes

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Foster Hirsch

Vera Jaffe
Christopher Hitchens

William Hogeland

Photograph by Barbara Brousal

Homer

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

Robert E. Howard

Charlie Huston

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Henrik Ibsen

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

Columbia University

Shirley Jackson

Steve Jackson

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Brian Jacques

M. R. James

www.stephengray.net
Jocelin of Brakelond

Ruins of Bury St. Edmond's Abbey, Suffolk, England, 2003. Photo by Bob Jones / Geograph Project
Geoff Johns

Geoff Johns Spotlight, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Robert Jordan

James Joyce

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

Franz Kafka

Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
John Keats

Barbara Keesling

Michael Maron
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon at Bad Moon Rising book signing in Portland, Oregon. Photo mine.
Philip Kerr

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Rudyard Kipling

E. E. Knight

Photo courtesy of author E. E. Knight (Wikipedia)
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
Harold Lamb

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

Joe R. Lansdale

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Stan Lee

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Mary Lefkowitz

National Humanities Award Ceremony 2006. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Fritz Leiber

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

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Bernard Lewis

Office of Communications, Princeton University
Matthew G. Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis. Frontispiece from The life and correspondence of M. G. Lewis, with many pieces in prose and verse, never before published (1839)
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Jeph Loeb

Jack London

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

H. P Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
Robert Ludlum

Noah Lukeman

Brian Lumley

Courtesy of Silky Lumley
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Jonathan Maberry

Sara Jo West
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.)
Ross Macdonald

Rob MacGregor

Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Niccolo Machiavelli

Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Richard Matheson

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Anne McCaffrey

Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Horace McCoy

Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
China Mieville

Mark Millar

Frank Miller

Photo by Kevin Tostado (Flickr)
John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
A. A. Milne

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

Sarah Monette

Photo by A. Monette
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Rick Moody

Chris Mooney


Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
C. L. Moore

John Burlinson
David Morrell

Grant Morrison

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Farley Mowat

Vladimir Nabokov

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

San Diego Comic-Con 2007, photo by Derek Springer
Kim Newman

Catriona Sparks.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Leonard Nimoy

Photo by Larry D. Moore, circa 1980 (Wikimedia Commons)
Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Garth Nix

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganDennis O'Neil

Luigi Novi
Eugene O'Neil

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/
Elaine Pagels

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

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

David Shankbone, September 2007
Gary Paulsen

Eye on Books
Sandy Petersen

Phil Hibbs (Source: Wikipedia)
Tamora Pierce

H. Beam Piper

Photo from Murder in the Gunroom (1953) dust jacket
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Robert Polito

Robert Polito (1951- )
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006,
Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Francine Prose

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Piers Paul Read

Mary Renault

Jonathan Riley-Smith

James Robinson

DC Universe panel, Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Robert Rodriguez

Sax Rohmer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Donald Rumbelow

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Bertrand Russell

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

Fred Saberhagen

J. D. Salinger

Felix Salten

R. A. Salvatore

Sapper

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

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Stanley Schmidt

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Sir Walter Scott

From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
(Project Gutenberg)
Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
William Shatner

Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Michael Shermer

Brian Sibley

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Dan Simmons

Walt Simonson

Luigi Novi
John Skelton

Gary Small

Sterling Franken-Steffen
Cordwainer Smith

Roff Smith

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sophocles

Albert Speer

Mickey Spillane

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Chicago Editorial Staff

University of Chicago, George R. Lawrence Co., copyright 1907
Olaf Stapledon

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

Allen Steele

Geoffrey A. Landis
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
William Stout

photo by John Chadwick
Peter Straub

Whitley Strieber

Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Lawrence Sutin

Photo by Erik Saulitis
Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Tacitus

Quentin Tarantino

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

J. R. R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Gregory of Tours

Statue of Gregory of Tours, Cour Napoléon, the Louvre. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Tryon

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

Library of Congress
Lao Tzu

Brian J. Underhill

Photo by Peggysue Spencer
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
A. E. Van Vogt

John Burlinson
John Varley


Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Vernor Vinge

By
Mark Pellegrini, at ACM CFP-2006 (L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington DC), May 5, 2006.
Virgil

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

Karl Edward Wagner

Copyright © Beth Gwinn
Matt Wagner

From Matt Wagner
Horace Walpole

Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
David Weber

Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi

H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienNathanael West

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/
Jack Williamson

Bill Willingham

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Connie Willis

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

Tom Ordelman, 1984
F. Paul Wilson


Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Owen Wister

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

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, photo by Loren Javier
Patricia C. Wrede

from Wikimedia Commons, uploaded by Dd-b
Xenophon

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

William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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