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Harold Abelson

Joi Ito
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Scott Adams

Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Aleksandr Afanasev

Alexander N. Afanasjew. Wikimedia Commons.
CIA

Original Headquarters Building
(
cia.gov)
Edward Albee

Louisa May Alcott

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

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Stephen E. Ambrose

Hans Christian Andersen

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

Michael P. Sauers
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Anonymous

Jean Anouilh

Piers Anthony

Apuleius

Mosaic (4th century) from Trier
Aristophanes

Aristotle

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

Jeff Karpala (Source: Flickr)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jean M. Auel

Augustine

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Francis Bacon

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.
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
John Barth

Gregory Bassham

Charles Baudelaire

Wikipédia France
Susan Wise Bauer

William McEwan
L Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Peter S. Beagle

Wikipedia
Beatles

Wikimedia Commons. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under digital ID cph.3c11094
Samuel Beckett

David Bevington (ed.)

Kai Bird

Columbia University
(Kai Bird is at center)
Sven P. Birkerts (ed.)

Harvard University
William Blake

Thomas Phillips
Andy Bloch

Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

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

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Berke Breathed

Eye on Books
Douglas Brinkley

flickr user
eschipul(cropped by uploader)
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
Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser (left) at the 2008 National Humanities Medal award ceremony. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Max Brooks

Terry Brooks


Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
S. G. Browne

Robert Browning

Robert Browning, the poet (courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Pearl S. Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
Emma Bull

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (1994)
John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
Samuel Butler

Julius Caesar

public domain
Erskine Caldwell

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

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

Orson Scott Card

John le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

from Wikipedia
Stephen Colbert

Credit: David Shankbone, Nov. 2007
Padraic Colum

photographed by Carl Van Vechten,
Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager, 1954 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienConfucius

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)
Stephen Crane

Illustration from 1900 magazine
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)
David Damrosch (ed.)

Charles Darwin

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

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Norman Davies

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

Richard Dawkins

Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons

Jeffery Deaver

Antonio G Colombo
Jared M. Diamond

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Cassius Dio

Walt Disney Productions

Cory Doctorow

Photo by James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media
at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference,
held March 6-9 in San Diego, CA
Stephen R. Donaldson

John Donne

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Frederick Douglass

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

from Wikipedia
Alexandre Dumas

Will Durant

Bob Dylan

Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Julie Andrews Edwards

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

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Bart D. Ehrman

Photo by user R. Bailey / Wikimedia Commons.
Charles W. Eliot (ed.)

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-ggbain-00573
George Eliot

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

Bret Easton Ellis

Ian Gittler
Joseph J. Ellis

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Harlan Ellison

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

Ellis Richard

Stephanie Guest
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

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

William Faulkner

Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
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

Ian Fleming

Eric Foner

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Shelby Foote

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
James George Frazer

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
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
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com

Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Henry Louis Gates

Jean Craighead George

Photo by Eric Bergman
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wikipédia France
Bernard Goldberg

William Golding

William Goldman

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

From Wikimedia Commons
E.H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Robert Graysmith

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Jakob and Wilhelm 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.)
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Michael Gruber

Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

phosphorescent
Ursula K. Le Guin

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Alexander Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Stephen Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Robert A. Heinlein

Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Ernest Hemingway

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

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.
Herodotus

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

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

James Hilton

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

from Wikipedia
Homer

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe, on right. Columbia University.
pulitzer.orgVictor Hugo

wikipedia
David Hurwitz

David Hurwitz, author of Wasting the Dawn, buried in his personal book collection.
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Photo by L.J. Knightstep
Henrik Ibsen

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Washington Irving

Perry-Castañeda Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Shirley Jackson

Henry James

Wikipedia
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksJames Joyce

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

John Keats

George Frost Kennan

Photo credit: Princeton University Archives, circa 1961-1963 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
David M. Kennedy

Library of Congress
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Jack Ketchum

Georges Seguin
Omar Khayyam

Copyright © The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS)

Stephen King

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

Jack Kirby

San Diego Comic-Con 1982, photo by Alan Light
Robert Kirkman

Chuck Klosterman

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Dean Koontz

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
Jon Kukla

Jennifer Kukla
Louis L'Amour

Edward J. Larson

Photo by user Ragesoss / Wikimedia Commons
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Henry Charles Lea

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

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

New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Edward Liu
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Steven D. Levitt

Kristine Khoury
C.S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Charles de Lint

By Leslie Howle
Livy

from Wikipedia
Jeph Loeb

Jack London

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

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Robert Ludlum

Noah Lukeman

Niccolo Machiavelli

Charles Mackay

Ian R. MacLeod

Credit: Gillian Bowskill (courtesy of Ian MacLeod)
Margaret Macmillan

Greg Smolonski
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Alberto Manguel

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Richard Matheson

Guy de Maupassant

Anne McCaffrey

Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Scott Mccloud

Colleen McCullough

Ian MacDonald

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

James M. McPherson

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

from Wikipedia
Bruce M. Metzger (ed.)

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.)
Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Micheaux. Frontispiece from The conquest; the story of a negro pioneer (1913)
John Milton

Margaret Mitchell

Moliere

Wikipédia France
Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Robin Morgan

Blake Morgan
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Photo by Marion Ettlinger
Donald Norman

jnd.org
Julian Of Norwich

Joseph S. Nye

Official Department of Defence Portrait by Scott Davis, 11 Oct. 1994
Scott O'Dell

Bill O'Reilly

Chris McCann
Michael B. Oren


George Orwell

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

Portrait (c. 1806/1807) by John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
R.R. & Colton Palmer

Credit: Emily S. Palmer
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Charles Perrault

wikimedia commons
Charles Peterson

Photo by Joe Mabel (Wikimedia Commons)
Plato

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

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Polybius


Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Oxford

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Ayn Rand

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-114904
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
David S. Reynolds

© 2004 Aline Pansoy
Richard Rhodes

Nancy Warner
Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Mary Roach

David Paul Morris
William Glenn Robertson

call.army.mil
Alex Robinson

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

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)

J. K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Photo by Matt Musselman
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

J.D. Salinger

Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Jean-Paul Sartre

Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
John Saul

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Walter Scott

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

1982, oil on canvas by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College) Image should not be reproduced or distributed without permission of the
Hood Museum of ArtWilliam Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Ntozake Shange

Photo by Frank Stewart
George Bernard Shaw

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

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Murasaki Shikibu

Francesco_G, October 12, 2006
Shel Silverstein

Neil Simon

World Telegram & Sun photo by Al Ravenna, 1966 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-121470)
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Simon Singh

Credit: Steve Trigg, 2005, Brisbane
Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Sophocles

Wole Soyinka

Photo by Chidi Anthony Opara / Flickr
Elizabeth George Speare

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Johanna Spyri

Peter N. Stearns

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
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
Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Jon Stewart

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Adam M. Stump
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, ca. 1870s-80s (Defense Visual Information Center, War and Conflict CD Collection, ID: HDSN9901775)
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Tacitus

Shaun Tan

Photo by K Tempest Bradford / Flickr
Alan Taylor

© Dan Vaillancourt
Alfred Tennyson, Lord

Studs Terkel

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Marlo Thomas

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

By Greg Preston
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
James Thurber

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

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Ivan Turgenev

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

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
John Updike

Martha Updike
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Joan D. Vinge

Courtesy of Jim Frenkel.
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace, author of "Big Fish" (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Robert Penn Warren

Courtesy Wikipedia.
James D. Watson

Wikipedia
H. G Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdith Wharton

from Wikipedia
E. B. White

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

This image was made in 1887 in New York, by photographer George C. Cox
(Wikipedia)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Oscar Wilde

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Bill Willingham

DC Comics booth, San Diego Comic-Con 2007, by Lampbane
Thomas Wolfe

Library of Congress, Carl van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42508 DLC
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Richard Wright

Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Photograph by Gordon Parks, May 1943
(Farm Security Administration-
Office of War Information Photograph Collection,
Library of Congress)
Xenophon

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

Photo by Charles Lucke
William Butler Yeats

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

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Slavoj Zizek

Photo by Andy Miah
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