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Edwin A. Abbott

From Wikipedia
Ralph Abraham

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Amir D. Aczel

Peter D. Mark
Henry Adams

Scott Adams

Kenn Amdahl

photo by Scott Amdahl
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
H. C. Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Lou Andreas-Salome

Anonymous

Aristotle

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

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

© Thomas Sorrentino
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Marcus Aurelius

Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
William Bartram

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

from Wikipedia
L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Max Beerbohm

from Wikipedia
Michael J. Behe

Courtesy of Michael Behe.
Hilaire Belloc

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

Wendell Berry

Jorge Luis Borges

Alain de Botton

Photo by Charlotte de Botton
Ben Bova

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Ray Bradbury

David Brin

By R. Feist
Damien Broderick

Barbara Lamar
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
William F. Buckley

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

James Burke

Michael Butor

A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Ernest Callenbach

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
William H. Calvin

Fritjof Capra

Girolamo Cardano

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

Giacomo Casanova

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Casanova, Gosundarstvennyj Istoreceskij Muzej, Moscow
Camilo Jose Cela

ÁWá
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)
Ted Chiang

Elze Hamilton
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998)
Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, October 18, 1968.
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Catherine Clement

Esby
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
William Cobbett

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

"Andrei Codrescu (author) and Rochelle Hartman (librarian), January 1999." (Rochelle Hartman)
Phil Cousineau

photo by Gregg Chadwick
John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Barry Cunliffe

William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Richard Dawkins

Daniel Odier

Daniel Odier
Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Mark Dery

Credit: Jorge Madrigal, http://www.madrigalstudio.com/.
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Michael Dirda

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Norman Douglas

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID van.5a51929
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Comm
Lord Dunsany

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

Joi Ito
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Jean-Yves Empereur

Credit: Néfermaât (Wikipedia user), 2006
Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Richard P. Feynman

Wartime Los Alamos badge photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
James George Frazer

R. Buckminster Fuller

Neil Gaiman

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) 1866 photograph
William H. Gass

Joyce Ravid
William Gibson

Andre Gide

1893
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

George Gissing

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

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Thaddeus Golas

Credit: Sylvain Despretz (Wikipedia)
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Steven Gould

Science Fiction Author Steven Gould (self-portrait, iCam)
Guido Gozzano

Unknown photographer
Richard Grant

Jan Rosenbaum
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Brian Greene

Julian Green

Carl Van Vechten (1933)
Jeff Greenwald

Photo of Jeff Greenwald, on location. Photo copyright: www.seacology.org
Ursula K. LeGuin

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Edward T. Hall

Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sorrells
Richard Halliburton

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

Patricia Hampl

John Burlinson, Nov. 9, 2007
Thich Nhat Hanh

M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Lafcadio Hearn

Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Bill Henderson

Photograph by Lily Henderson
Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Douglas R. Hofstadter

from Wikipedia
Robert Holdstock

Radioflux, 2004
Nick Hornby

W.D. Howells

from Wikipedia
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
A. J. Jacobs

Henry James

Wikipedia
Jerome K. Jerome

Kij Johnson

Jeffrey Kacirk

Photographed by Susan Feldman
Michio Kaku

Immanuel Kant

Hokusai Katsushika

Self portrait as an old man (original in Louvre)
Stuart Kauffman

Alton Jenkins
Guy Kawasaki

Image via Wikipedia, (c) Dave Sifry
Donald Keene

Aurelio Asiain @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ionushi/323766792/
Garrison Keillor

photo by Brian Velenchenko
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Ellen Kushner

Flickr user jwa_org
George Lakoff

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Charles Lamb

wikipedia
Lewis H. Lapham

Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Stephen R. Lawhead

Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Wendy Lesser

Photo by Charles Haynes, on
FlickrPrimo Levi

Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
Wyndham Lewis, ed.

Georg Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
A. J. Liebling

John Burlinson
Jack London

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

Joanna Macy

Claudio Magris

Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Xavier De Maistre

Portrait by Charles Steuben
Thomas Mann

Katherine Mansfield

Photo by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew (1913)
George R.R. Martin

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
Paul J. McAuley

Ian Mcdonald

Ian McDonald (b. 1960)
Credit: Gerhard Heeke, 1997, Dortmund, Germany
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Sean McMullen

John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
John McWhorter

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
W.S. Merwin

(c) Matthew Schwart
Dennis Miller

Henry Miller

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

photo by Dina Salah
Giles Milton

Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Tim Moore

William Morris

From Wikipedia
Farley Mowat

Ogden Nash

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

Robert Scoble
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Audrey Niffenegger

Photo. by Dennis Hearne, courtesy MacAdam/Cage
Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Octavio Paz

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Clifford A. Pickover

Richard Dickison
Plato

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

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Marco Polo

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Marcel Proust

David Quammen

Lynn Donaldson
Jean Renoir

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

© 2005 Matt Ridley
Rainer Maria Rilke

Kim Stanley Robinson

Eye on Books
Rudolf V. B. Rucker

Rudy Rucker
Bertrand Russell

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

Courtesy of the author
Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
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)
George Sand

Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864
Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Steven Saylor

Jerry Bauer
Schama Simon

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Patricia Schultz

Library of Congress
W.G. Sebald

Art by Zero
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Bernard Shaw

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

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Sharon Shinn

Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Dan Simmons

Tobias Smollett

from Wikipedia
Gary Snyder

1990s
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Stendhal

Johan Olaf Sodemark
Neal Stephenson

taleswapper
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Sting

Lionel Urman
S. M. Stirling

Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
Charles Stross

Michael Swanwick

Michael Swanwick at Philcon November 2006
Arthur Symons

Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Michael Talbot

(seated) www.tobyjohnson.com
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Henry David Thoreau

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

Edward R. Tufte

Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Various

Kurt Vonnegut

Walter Wangerin

Rick Warren

Rick Warren
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienJanwillem van de wetering

Edmund White

Jack Whyte

Oscar Wilde

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

Cat Sparks
Connie Willis

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Washington
Delta Willis

www.deltawillis.com
Douglas L. Wilson

Library of Congress
Robert Charles Wilson

Robert De Maio
Swain Wolfe

Photo by Mark Bryant
Paul Woodruff

Marsha Miller
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Majonaise
Marguerite Yourcenar

John Burlinson
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
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