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Diana Abu-Jaber

Scott Eason
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Jody Adams

Carol Kaplan
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Arthur Agatston

Boris Akunin

Daniel Alarcon

Photo by Mathieu Bourgois
Edward Albee

Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Christopher Alexander

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Steve Almond

Julia Alvarez

Stephen E. Ambrose

Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, New York, 2006; photo by Jiashiang Wang
Chris Anderson

Photos from the 2005 Emerging Technology Conference taken by James Duncan Davidson on behalf of O'Reilly Media.
Jean Anderson

Rudy Muller
Sherwood Anderson

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

Lori Balfe
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Piers Anthony

Jeffrey Archer

Terry O’Neill
Antonia Arslan

Jerry Bauer
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Andrew Bacevich

Kalman Zabarsky
Robert Baer

Photo by Suzanne Nathan /
flickrDavid Baldacci

Library of Congress
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
James Bamford

James Bamford. Photo by Joe Mabel, 2007.
Iain M. Banks

Tim Duncan
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Muriel Barbery

© Hélie Gallimard
J. M. Barrie

T. A. Barron

Brunonia Barry

Martha Everson
Dave Barry

John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein
Donald Barthelme

Photo Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Robert Bateman

Najmieh Batmanglij

James Beard; Illustrator Earl Thollander

Photo by Dan Wynn © Elisabeth Wynn.
Used with permission of the James Beard Foundation.
Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jeremy Bentham

Rose Levy Beranbaum

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Alex Berenson

Sigrid Estrada
Carol Berg

Leonard Bernstein

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

Famous Americans CD-ROM & Book (Dover Electronic Clip Art)
Lloyd Biggle

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Mark Bittman

Evan Sung
Cara Black

Dennis Hearne
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Hans Blix

Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
(Source: IAEA Image Bank 03010004.JPG)
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
David Bodanis

John C. Bogle

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
editor Ben Bova

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T.C. Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

H.W. Brands

John Burlinson, January 5, 2008
Patricia Briggs

Photo By Hagnagy Photography
David Brin

By R. Feist
Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
Tom Brokaw

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
David Brooks

Photograph by James Hamilton
John Brooks

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dee Brown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Patricia Fortini Brown

by Joan Pantsios, at
Flickr.com. Fortini Brown is in the center.
John Brunner

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Eurocon5, Stresa, Italy, 1980.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Elizabeth Buchan

Mary Buffett

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007, New York City
Bill Buford

Gaspar Tringale
Lois McMaster Bujold

Photo by Carol Collins (2005)
Bulgakov Mikhail

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)
Bryan Burrough

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Lewis Buzbee

A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Lord Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Rachel Caine

Photo by Sharon Sams-Adams
Truman Capote

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

Jacqueline Carey

Robert A. Caro

Joyce Ravid
Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Michel du Cille
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)
ron chernow

Sigrid Estrada
C. J. Cherryh

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Lee Child

Agatha Christie

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Author photograph by AFP/Corbis
Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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

Photograph by Jerry Mitchell
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
Barbara Hand Clow

Eoin Colfer

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

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdward Conlon

Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Wikipedia Commons.
Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Trevor Corson

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Noel Coward

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

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite with Arianna Huffington
at a 2006 book party for Arianna
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganE. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Marion Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Phyllis Curott

Bruce Fields
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Rosie Daley

Sandra Dallas

Photo by Povy Kendal Atchison
Richard Henry Dana

Osha Gray Davidson

Osha Gray Davidson
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Lester Del Rey

Kiran Desai

Colin Dexter

Jared Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Gordon R. Dickson

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001)
Photographed at Minicon 8 (1974)
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Karen Blixen

In Kenya, 1918
Christina Dodd

Andrew Dornenburg

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Charles M. Doughty

Crescent Dragonwagon

Cornbread Gospels
Theodore Dreiser

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Alexandre Dumas père

Sylvia A. Earle

Coastal America / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Timothy Egan

Sophie Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
George Eliot

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

Harlan Ellison

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Masaru Emoto

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Auguste Escoffier

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Linda Fairstein

David Farland

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)
Christine Feehan

Bruce Feiler

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Craig Ferguson

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Carrie Fisher

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

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

Mark Coulson, 5th World Conference of Science Journalists
Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Gaelen Foley

Courtesy of Gaelen Foley.
Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Shelby Foote

Amanda Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
C.S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

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

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Ina Garten

Photo by user Psychobunny95 / English Wikipedia
Shakti Gawain

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Godden Rumer

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Glen David Gold

William Gerald Golding

Doris Kearns Goodwin

John Steele Gordon

Photo by Marcell Vandehaar, 1996
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Mariana Gosnell

William Althoff
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Linda Greenlaw

Alan Greenspan

Zane Grey

Wikipedia Commons
Brothers 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.)
Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen
Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
Ursula K. LeGuin

Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
James Gurney

© Gurney 2007
Beth Gutcheon

Photo by Nancy Crampton
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Richard N. Haass

Robert Scoble
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

Laurell K. Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
Jim Harrison

www.mathieu.bourgois.com
Brett Harte

Paul Hawken

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Chip Heath

Chip and Dan Heath (Photo by Nathan Borror, Flickr)
Robert A. Heinlein

Ernest Hemingway

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

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
John Hersey

from Wikipedia
Photo by Carl Van Vechten - 1958
(Library of Congress)
Hermann Hesse

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

2006 Tim Chapman
Napoleon Hill

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-136396)
Jack Hitt

Robin Hobb

Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

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

Photographer unknown
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. E. Housman

Fred Hoyle

Photo by Chandra Wickramasinghe
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Stephen Hunter

Library of Congress
Charlie Huston

(c) Elizabeth Talbott
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Henrik Ibsen

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

John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Cheryl Alters Jamison

with Bill Jamison
photo by Mary Jablonsky
J. A. Jance

Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett
Joyce Johnson

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Kij Johnson

Steven Johnson

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2006, New York City
Alvin M. Josephy

Jerry Bauer
James (Introduction By Harry Levin) Joyce

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank R. Arnold
Donald Kagan

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

www.charlottekasl.com
Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Yasunari Kawabata

Wikimedia Commons
Kent M. Keith

Thomas Keller

Brett Wilson
Caroline Kennedy

Pete Souza
Jack Kerouac

David Kessler

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Sue Monk Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Dean King

Ross King

Stephen King

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

Dan Koeppel

Dean Koontz

Ted Kooser

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
Amanda Quick

Nicholas D. Kristof

Mark Kurlansky

Sylvia Plachy
Ray Kurzweil

Credit: Michael Lutch
Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Frances Moore Lappe

Philip Larkin

Professor Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Stephanie Laurens

photo by Sigrid Estrada
David Lebovitz

malias, July 29, 2005
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Harper Lee

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

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Donna Leon

Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Daniel J. Levitin

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Steven Levy

C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
James Lipton

Photo by David Shankbone, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
Bjorn Lomborg

Emil Jupin
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)
Robert Ludlum

Gayle Lynds

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.)
Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles MacKay

Deborah Madison

Rosemary Mahoney

Nikolaos Ieronymakis
Burton G. Malkiel

Prof. Burton Gordon Malkiel. Photo by J.D. Levine/Yale (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David Mamet

Brigitte Lacombe
David Maraniss

Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Margaret Maron

Ngaio Marsh

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
George R.R. Martin

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

Library of Congress
Alexander Masters

Autobiography nominee Alexander Masters (left)
chats with poetry winner Troy Jollimore
at the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganW. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Guy de Maupassant

Armistead Maupin

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

Jane Mayer, journalist born 1955 (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Anne McCaffrey

John (with Mark Salter) McCain

Credit: U.S. Senate Historical Office
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Mary McCarthy

World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico, Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114725
Scott McClellan

White House Photo
(whitehouse.gov)
Frank McCourt

Malachy McCourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Sharyn McCrumb

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Maureen F. McHugh

Patricia A. McKillip

Adrianna Dane
Rod Mckuen

McKuen with Grete Keller: Image ©
ÖNB/WienMarian McPartland

Laura Kolb
James M. Mcpherson

Prof. James M. McPherson (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Cheryl Mendelson

Ben Mezrich

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
James A. Michener

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

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

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
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

Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Jan Morris

Greg Mortenson

Tauheed ashraf
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Karin Muller

japanlandonline.com
Meg Mullins

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ogden Nash

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

Pablo Neruda

Patrick Ness

Marion Nestle

Photo by Peter Menzel
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Jennifer Niven

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Donald A. Norman

jnd.org
Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
Laurie Notaro

Photo by Shelley Spray
Barack Obama

Eugene O'Neill

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

Gasper Tringale
George Orwell

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

David Owen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ann Packer

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gordon Parks

Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Joe Nick Patoski

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Peace

Charles Glover
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

flickr user
mikewade(cropped by uploader)
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Stef Penney

Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Tom Perrotta

Photo by Debi Milligan
Sara Perry

photo by Mark Wexler
Carlo Petrini

Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Nathaniel Philbrick

Julie Phillips

Photo credit: Jan van
Houten
(courtesy of Julie Phillips,
use of image requires permission of
Julie PhillipsKevin Phillips

Tamora Pierce

Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
George Plimpton

MDCarchives
Plutarch

David Pogue

Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Rachel Pollack

Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Katha Pollitt

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Katherine Anne Porter

Chaim Potok

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
T.A. Pratt

Photo by Heather Shaw
Richard Price

Richard Price (b. 1949) Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Francine Prose

E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Mary Jo Putney

Franco
Howard Pyle

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

Rex Rystedt/Seattlephoto.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
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Mary Renault

Thomas E. Ricks

Credit: Terry Ballard, 2007
Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Keith Roberts

paloma.cl
Nora Roberts

Flickr user Dev Librarian
Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Marilynne Robinson

Claudia Roden

Photo © Red Saunders
Joseph Romm

Alex Ross

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Ann B. Ross

Ann B. Ross
Arundhati Roy

Robert Rubin

U.S. Dept. of Treasury
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Tim Russert

Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
J.D. Salinger

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Pamela Redmond Satran

Photograph by Alexa Garbarino Photography
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
John Scalzi

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Eric Schlosser

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

John Burlinson
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
E F Schumacher

Image by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons
Arthur Schwartz

Barry Schwartz

Photo © Esther Dyson
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Amy Sedaris

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Lisa See

Patricia Williams
Sei Shonagon

Kikugawa Eizan, woodblock print circa 1820
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PH Filing Series
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-7904)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Vandana Shiva

Nevil Shute

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

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Leslie Marmon Silko

Credit: James Nguyen, The Fairfield Mirror.
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Thorne Smith

Zadie Smith

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles; Translated By Robert Fagles

George Soros

Photo by Jeff Ooi / LensaMalaysia.com
Peter Spiegelman

Shel Secunda
Steven Squyres

NASA Calif Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Wesley Stace

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
State Fair of Texas

Photo by T. C. / Flickr.
John Steinbeck

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Amy Stewart

K.C. Kratt
Sting

Lionel Urman
Kathryn Stockett

Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
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