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Douglas Adams

Louisa May Alcott

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

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Gene Ambaum

Photo provided by Gene Ambaum
Tori Amos

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

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

The 9-11 Commission
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Saint Augustine / Marcus Dods


Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Hy Bender

Brian Michael Bendis

Credit: istolethetv (flickr), 2006
John Berendt

Eye on Books
John Berryman

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Jorge Luis Borges

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Richard Brautigan

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Emily Bronte

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Gwendolyn Brooks

MDCarchives
Charles N. Brown

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, 30th World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Elizabeth (Barrett) Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Truman Capote

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

Mike Carey

NYCC 2009
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Lewis Carroll

C. P. Cavafy

From
Wikipedia, portrait of Cavafy taken around 1900.
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Leonard Cohen

Photo by Roland Godefroy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

from Wikipedia
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

E E Cummings

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

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Jeremiah Curtin

Curtin in December 1905
Mark Z. Danielewski

Photo (c) Marion Ettlinger
Ellen Datlow

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Stephen R. Donaldson


Tim Dorsey

Eye on Books
Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Amanda Minnie Douglas

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Albert Einstein

Photo by Yousuf Karsh, 1948
(Yousuf Karsh / Library and Archives Canada / PA-212510)
T. S. Eliot

Warren Ellis

From Wikipedia

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Southworth & Hawes
Maurits Cornelis Escher

Kelley Eskridge

Photo by Nicola Griffith
Euripides

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

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Edward Fitzgerald

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Dick Francis

Kinky Friedman

Larry D. Moore (2006-10-11)
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressNorthrop Frye

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library

Neil Gaiman

Neil; Pratchett Gaiman, Terry

© Miriam Berkley. Use of image requires permission from
Miriam Berkley.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Goldman

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

Wikipedia user Mystar1959 (2003)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
John Green

Photo by Christopher Meerdo
Michael Green

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.)
Rachel Hadas

James J. Kriegsmann Jr.
Edith Hamilton


Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons
Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Robert Hass

Stephen W Hawking

from Wikipedia
Katharine Hepburn

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.
Carl Hiaasen

2006 Tim Chapman
Homerus

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

Photographer unknown
Mary Howitt

Mary Howitt. Frontispiece from An autobiography (1889)

Zora Neale Hurston

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Sebastien Japrisot

Sébastien Japrisot (Jean-Baptiste Rossi), 1931-2003 from
Life in Legacy
Jerome K. Jerome

James Joyce

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

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Paul Kennedy

(c)Robert Lisak
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Photo by Kathryn A. Pollnac
Milan Kundera

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Anne Lamott

Andrew Lang

wikipedia
Jerome Lawrence

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

Image from Twenty-four portraits (1920) by William Rothenstein
Philip Levine

Frances Levine
C. S. Lewis

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71929)
(cropped)
Denise Linn

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.

Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Eunice Lipton

© Ed Alcock
Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
of lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Martin Luther

Katie MacAlister

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Thomas Mann

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
W. Somerset Maugham

Library of Congress
Prints & Photographs Division
Carl Van Vechten Collection
[reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
Daphne du Maurier

Dave McKean

Photo taken by Kris A. Celario, can be viewed on
FlikrJames Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Diane Wood Middlebrook

Photo by Jerry Bauer
China Mieville

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Kate Mosse

Alphonse Marie Mucha

Photo by: Geo. K. Lawrence Co., Chicago. 1906.
Walter Dean Myers

Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Barnes & Noble

Signage outside the recently closed store at 600 Fifth Avenue, New York, taken by Lampbane
Susan Orlean

Gasper Tringale
Suze Orman

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Dorothy Parker

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

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica

Elizabeth Peters

Julie Anne Peters

Courtesy of the author
Eugene Peterson

Robert Pirsig

(c) Ian Glendinning 2005 http://www.psybertron.org
Sylvia Plath

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Marcel Proust

Arnold Rampersad

Brigitte Carnochan
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

From Wikimedia Commons
Tom Robbins

Alex Robinson

Photo taken by A.j. Michel (flickr name: syndprod) at San Diego Comic Con 08. Read her blog at
www.syndicateproduct.com.
Theodore Roethke

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
P. Craig Russell

Photo courtesy: Wayne Alan Harold
V Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
J.D. Salinger

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Dori Seda

Women in Comics panel, San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
SHANGE Ntozake

Photo by Frank Stewart
Mary Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Dodie Smith

John Burlinson
Sophocles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Elizabeth George Speare

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
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
Sara Teasdale

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

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Hunter S. Thompson

Jill Thompson

Eisner Awards, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Henry David Thoreau

Copyrighted by Geo. F. Parlow, 1879
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ61-361)
Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Kennedy Toole

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various Authors

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Kurt Vonnegut

Anne Waldman

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

Rick Warren
Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
Richard Wilbur

John Williams

William Carlos Williams

Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Tom Wolfe

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Philip Yancey

Randall Olsson
W. B. Yeats

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