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Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
John Emerich Edward Dalbert Acton

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

Peter D. Mark
Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
William Harrison Ainsworth

Project Gutenberg
Leon Battista Alberti

Alexander Alekhine

wiki
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Margery Allingham

used with the kind permission of The Margery Allingham Society
A Alvarez

Credit: walnut whippet (Flickr user), 2006
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Chris Anderson

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

Lucius Apuleius, Madaurensis

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Kate Atkinson

David Attenborough

Shojo
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Alan Ayckbourn

copyright: Alan Ayckbourn
A. J. Ayer

Lauren Bacall

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans

Print by Van Somer included in "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon", edited by John Devey, M.A., Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1852.
Rosemary Bailey

J.G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Pat Barker

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Bede

Ludwig van Beethoven

Wikipedia.
Antony Beevor

Lauren Belfer

Hilaire Belloc

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arnold Bennett

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

Eye on Books
Bernard Berenson

Ingmar Bergman

Hector Berlioz

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Michael R. Beschloss

Library of Congress
John Betjeman

Thomas Bewick

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

John Burlinson
Heinrich Böll

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

Lois Wadler
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Boethius

Dirk Bogarde

Copyright DB Estate www.dirkbogarde.co.uk
Daniel J. Boorstin

Library of Congress/Wikipedia
Stephen Booth

Jorge Luis Borges

James Boswell

M. M Botvinnik

wiki
Sam Bourne

Marjorie Bowen

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

Jerry Bauer
John Boyne

Mark Condren
Sarah Bradford

Fernand Braudel

Bertolt Brecht

Vera Brittain

Mark Gerson
Anne Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)
Emily Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Anita Brookner

Courtesy Roberta Rood.
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Sir Thomas Browne

Pieter Bruegel

wikipedia
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Jacob Burckhardt

Photograph (1892); original in possession of the Universitätsbliothek Basel.
Sir Richard Francis Burton

George Gordon Lord Byron

Julius Caesar

public domain
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Andrea Camilleri

Elias Canetti

Fritjof Capra

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Thomas Carlyle

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)
John Le Carre

Rachel Louise Carson

from Wikipedia
Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Bust of Bernal Diaz, Medina del Campo, Spain. Photo by José-Manuel Benito / Wikimedia Commons.
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Benvenuto Cellini

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)
Anton Chekhov

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

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Agatha Christie

Winston Churchill, Sir

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

from Wikipedia
John Clare

Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Stephen Clarke

Esby
Brian Clegg

Photo by the author
Carol Clewlow

(AP Watt)
Bill Clinton

Bob McNeely, The White House
William Cobbett

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas, Admiral Lord Cochrane

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Rt. Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge

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

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
R.G. Collingwood

Michael Collins

Michael Collins, Astronaut (Photo created by NASA)
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Michael Connelly

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

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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.
Patricia Cornwell

Richard Courant

Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, http://owpdb.mfo.de/detail?photoID=726
David Crystal

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)
Charles Darwin

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

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2004
Robertson Davies

Rupert Eric. Davies

Cedric Barker, Bristol
Lindsey Davis

Photo by Camilla Broadbent
Richard Dawkins

Jill Dawson

Tim Allen
Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Frank Delaney (ed.)

credit: Jerry Baur
Don DeLillo

Kiran Desai

Colin Dexter

Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Dobbs

Gaetano Donizetti

Public domain. (Wikipedia)
John Donne

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

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Carol Drinkwater

Sarah Dunant

Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Eamon Dunphy

wikipedia
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
David Edmonds

George Eliot

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

Alice Thomas Ellis

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
1856 photograph
Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
Dana Facaros

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Gabriel Fauré

Portrait with oils of Gabriel Fauré (1845 –1924) by John Singer Sargent, about 1889 (The Paris Museum of Music). (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Joshua Ferris

Richard Phillips Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
Helen Fielding

Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Patricia Finney

Cameracraft
Ernst Fischer

F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Ian Fleming

Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
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
Frederick Forsyth

John Fowles

Clare Francis

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Dick Francis

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer, Sir

Lawrence Freedman

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice Principal (Research), King's College, London
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
David Frost

Photo by R. D. Ward, United States Department of Defense (Cropped for Wikimedia)
Christopher Fry

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

Alan Furst

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen
Lorenzo Ghiberti

Self-portrait on Paradise Gate of the Baptisterio (credit: Richardfabi (Wikipedia user), March 2005, Florence, Italy)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Stella Gibbons

John Burlinson
Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Nikolaˆi Vasilevich Gogol

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


E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Carol Goodman

Brian Velenchenko
Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ann Granger

Ave Maria Mõistlik
Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Gray

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Graham Greene

Jonathon Green

n/a
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Olga Grushin

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Mohammed Hanif

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Robert Harris

Adam Hart-Davis

Moss Hart

John Harvey-Jones

Multiple Sclerosis Trust
S. W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Seamus Heaney

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

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

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Robert Herrick

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hibbert

Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Thomas Hobbes

Painting by John Michael Wright (detail)
E. J. Hobsbawm

David Hockney

Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
A. E. Housman

Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes (1822–1896)
engraving (ca. 1860-1890)
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Julian Huxley

Thomas Henry and Julian Huxley in 1895. From
WikipediaElisabeth Hyde

Henrik Ibsen

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

Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
C.L.R. James

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksLisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Jerome K. Jerome

Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Griff Rhys Jones

Steve Jones

aleksandar2
James Joyce

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

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Douglas Kennedy

www.mathieu-bourgois.com
Philip Kerr

Joseph Kessel

Wikipédia France
Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)
Dean King

Ross King

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

From "Great Britain and Her Queen" by Anne E. Keeling. This is a picture of Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley, not romance author Mary Kingsley
Rudyard Kipling

Milan Kundera

Eugene Labiche

wikimedia commons - Portrait of Eugène Labiche, french playwright, by Marcellin Desboutin
R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
Philip Larkin

Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Harold Joseph Laski

Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
D H Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
T. E. Lawrence

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Harper Lee

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

Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
Donna Leon

N. S Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Primo Levi

Claude Levi-Strauss

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Marc Levy

Salon du livre 2005
C. Day Lewis

John Burlinson
Marina Lewycka

Dominic Lieven

Penelope Lively

John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Robert Lowell

Titus Lucretius Carus

Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Baron

Niccolò Machiavelli

Frederic William Maitland

John Major

Steve Punter
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ngaio Marsh

Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
A. E. W Mason

From "The War Illustrated" (1915)
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

André Maurois

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

wikipedia
Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Peter May

domi photographe
Mark Mazower

Photo © 2004 Jerry Bauer
Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
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
Geraldine McCaughrean

Frank McCourt

Robert McCrum

Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe
Alister McGrath

Photo by Matthias Asgeirsson / Flickr
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Henry Miller

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Claude Monet

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Hugh Burnand
George Moore

Susanna Moore

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia. Il Modulo (encyclopedia), 1976. Wikimedia Commons.
Charles Morgan

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center
Paul Charles Morphy

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-49179)
(cropped)
Jan Morris

John Mortimer

Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Kate Mosse

Axel Munthe

Public domain
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photo by Alison Felstead
Irene Nemirovsky

John Henry Newman

"His Eminence Cardinal Newman"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Adam Nicolson

Robert Birnbaum
The Morning News/Identitytheory
Diana Norman

Andrew Norriss

Barack Obama

Edna O'Brien

Maggie O'Farrell

Tim Duncan
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
George Orwell

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

Richard Overy

Amos Oz

Amos Oz, 1939- (born as Amos Klausner) Photo by
Mariusz Kubik, May 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Ludek Pachman

Michael Palin

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sara Paretsky

Matthew Parker

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
Francis Parkman

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ61-97
Eric Partridge

G88keeper
Chris Patten

Kaihsu Tai
Ian Patterson

Jeremy Paxman

Peter Wright
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada

Iain Pears

Stef Penney

Roger Penrose

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Pepys

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

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Tom Peters

Allison Shirreefs
Nikolaus Pevsner

Pablo Picasso

wikipedia
Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Arthur Wing Pinero, Sir

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
Steven Pinker

Donna Coveney
Piccolomini

Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Plutarch

Marco Polo

Roy Porter

Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
William Hickling Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) (Brady-Handy Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-03537) (cropped)
Oxford University Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
J.B. Priestley

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

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

Jamie Pullman
Barbara Pym

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)
Thomas De Quincey

Francois Rabelais

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Charles Reade

The Who-When-What Book published 1900
Public Domain
Herbert Read

wikimedia commons, Roloff Beny
Kathy Reichs

Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Jean Renoir

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

Brigitte Lacombe
Samuel Richardson

Matt Ridley

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Graham Robb

Jerry Bauer.
Marilynne. Robinson

Peter Robinson

N.A.M. Rodger

Susan Rodger
Sax Rohmer

Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Miriam Rothschild

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
Walter Rudin

Wikipedia
Steven Runciman

Damon Runyon

from Wikipedia, photographer not credited
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Sir William Howard Russell

Photo circa 1861-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02458)
Edward Rutherfurd

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Periodista digital.com
Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)

Simon Schama

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Charles M Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Sir Walter Scott

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

Marion Ettlinger
Asne Seierstad

Credit: Jarvin, Nov. 10,2007
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Desmond Seward

courtesy of Desmond Seward
Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, George Grantham Bain Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-04778)
(cropped)
Elif Shafak

Bahar
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
James Shapiro

Courtesy of James S. Shapiro
Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Lionel Shriver

Nevil Shute

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

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Georges Simenon

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

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

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Zadie Smith

Charles Percy Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Henry M. Stanley

Cigarette card (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Vincent Starrett

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

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

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Ian Stewart

Taken by Stewart's wife, Avril Stewart.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
David Storey

Jeremy Keith

Rex Stout

www.nerowolfe.org
Giles Lytton Strachey

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Caius Suetonius Tranquillus

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Edward Thomas

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Thucydides

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James Thurber

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