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Elizabeth Abel

University of California Berkeley

Edward Albee

Woody Allen

Credit: Colin Swan, 2006, New York City
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

Djuna Barnes

public domain
Simone de Beauvoir

Aphra Behn

Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680): Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-127791)
(cropped)
Quentin Bell

A. Scott Berg

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Kay Boyle

Malcolm Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Anne Bronte

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
Ellen Burstyn

Courtesy of Sharon Aperto, photographer, taken in Nyack, N.Y., Nov. 12, 2006 (all rights reserved)
George Gordon Byron Byron, Baron

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)
Frank Capra

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

Bennett Cerf

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

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

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin, portrait by Ary Scheffer. (Public domain; Wikipedia)
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Laura P. Claridge

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

from Wikipedia
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Bette Davis

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

Marlene Dietrich

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

from Wikipedia
Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, November 8, 1933 (Library of Congress)
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Roger Ebert

Wikipedia
George Eliot

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

Helen Fielding


F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
1907 photograph
William Gibson

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison, als Santa Claus in einem Spital (21 December 1948) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienCarolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Lillian Hellman

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

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

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

1938 photograph (Wikipedia Commons)
Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Wikipedia
Garson Kanin

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

Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
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
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

John Burlinson
Rose Macaulay

John Burlinson
Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
Carson McCullers

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

Eamonn McCabe

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten photograph collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42479)
Kate Millett

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Anaïs Nin

Edna O'Brien

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant

Eugene O'Neill

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

Gasper Tringale
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

Author: Branch of the National Union of Journalists (BNUJ). Source: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/
Ruth L. Ozeki


Dorothy Parker

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

National Archives, Washington D.C.
Henry Petroski

Sylvia Plath


Katherine Anne Porter

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Marcel Proust

David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet (23 November 1970) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienRoxana Robinson

Novelists Leora Skolkin-Smith and Roxana Robinson (right)
run into each other at the 2006 GalleyCat holiday party
Copyright © 2006
Ron HoganAmy Krouse Rosenthal

Stuart O'Sullivan
Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
J. K. Rowling

Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Bernard Shaw

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

photographer, Marion Ettlinger
Betty Smith

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

Susan Sontag

John Steinbeck

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

Gertrude Stein

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

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

photo credit: ITV Granada
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
James Thurber

Photo by Fred Palumbo, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-112049
Alice B. Toklas

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42496 DLC
J R R Tolkien

Louis Untermeyer

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

Voltaire

Winifred Watson

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Rebecca West

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

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia

E. B. White

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

Photo by Napoleon Sarony: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-7139)
(cropped)
Brenda Wineapple

2003 Joyce Ravid

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Naomi Wolf

Leonard Woolf

Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's Head, Brighton. Photo by Oliver Mallinson Lewis / Flickr.

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Alexander Woollcott

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