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Michael Ableman

fieldsofplenty.com
Douglas Adams

Gerry Adams

Photo by Flickr user Missfitz
Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.
Theodor W. Adorno

Aischylos

James Agee

Allan Ahlberg

Naomi Alderman

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Kingsley Amis

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Yann Arthus-Bertrand

© Thomas Sorrentino
Hans C. Artmann

Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Joan Baez

Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug. 1963
Credit: US Information Agency
Doreen Baingana

Russell Baker

Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
"Banksy"

Paolo Redwings from London, UK
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Sebastian Barry

Gregory Bateson

from Wikipedia
Melody Beattie

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Matt Beaumont

Photo by Maria Beaumont
Simone de Beauvoir

Jurek Becker

Photo by Vera Stark (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-M1115-0304)
Samuel Beckett

Simon Beckett

Hilary Beckett
Louis Begley

Bettina Straus
Saul Bellow

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Bengt Magnus Kristoffer Berg

Wendell Berry

Patrick Bishop

Ian Jones
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
Heinrich Boll

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

Photograph by Stadtverwaltung Ludwigshafen. From
Wikipedia.
Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Stewart Brand, Ed.

Thomas Brasch

Thomas Brasch, 1993. Photo by Marion Brasch / Wikimedia Commons.
Bertolt Brecht

Dee Brown

Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Andrea Camilleri

Truman Capote

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

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John le Carre

Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Adelbert von Chamisso

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany
Bruce Chatwin

Courtesy of Aitken Alexander Associates.
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Erskine Childers

wikipedia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Christopher Coake

Photo by Abigail Blosser
Paulo Coelho

J.M. Coetzee

Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Tim Pat Coogan

From www.timpatcoogan.com
James Fenimore Cooper

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Patricia Cornwell

Denis Cotter

Jörg Köster
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Edward Sheriff Curtis

Museum of Natural History, New York, New York (Wikimedia Commons)
Arne Dahl

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Arnald
Portrait of Jan Arnald (Arne Dahl) by Finn Hensner
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Ram Dass

Kathleen Murphy
Annabel Davis-Goff

Photo by Sara Barrett
Richard Dawkins

Don DeLillo

Renan Demirkan

Photo by user Dontworry / Wikimedia Commons
Colin Dexter

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
"Reader's Digest"

Reader's Digest Headquarters, Pleasantville, New York. Image by user Atilin / Wikimedia Commons.
Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
Isak Dinesen

In Kenya, 1918
E.L. Doctorow

Norman Doidge

Julia Donaldson

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Wiglaf Droste

Photo by user Viborg / Wikimedia Commons
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Elke Wetzig, 1989
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
Albrecht Dürer

Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
(Yorck Project)
Easwaran Eknath

Monastic Dialogue
Gerald Edelman

www.peoplesarchive.com
Kim Edwards

°Ake Edwardson

Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Eichendorff

Scan from "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905)
Lucy Ellmann

Caroline Forbes
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Hans M. Enzensberger

Photograph by Mariusz Kubik
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joschka Fischer

Joschka Fischer and wife Minu
(Credit: Ickolle, Wikipedia user)
Robert Fisk

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

Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Dario Fo

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Richard Ford

Photo © Robert Yager
E.M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin
R.F. Foster

John Fowles

Harry G. Frankfurt

Prof. Harry G. Frankfurt. Photo by Denise Applewhite, 2002 (courtesy of Princeton University)
Jonathan Franzen

Alexander Frater

Anne Miller
Charles Frazier

Erich Fried

Brian Friel

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

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Alexandra Fuller

Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Jane Gardam

Ina May Gaskin

Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry, http://www.nambassa.com/ (Wikipedia)
Anna Gavalda

Alain Villa on wikipedia
Bob Geldof

Credit: Barbara Mürdter, 1991
Doris Gercke

Photo by annchristin / Flickr.
Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Hans R. Giger

JaSunni
Ralph Giordano

Photo by Krueger. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv 183-35505-0015)
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Robert Goddard

(c) Jane Brown
Rumer Godden

Courtesy of Jane Murray Flutter.
Johann W. von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Jason Goodwin

Jerry Bauer
Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Eli Gottlieb

Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Jonathon Green

n/a
Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Jane Grigson

Franz Grillparzer

Martha Grimes

David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Klaus Groth

Statue of Klaus Groth, Kiel, Germany. Photo by user VollwertBIT / Wikimedia Commons.
Allan Gurganus

David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Axel Hacke

Lumu
H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Peter Handke

Peter Stojanovic
Thich Nhat Hanh

HarperCollins

The Harper Brothers, circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02807)
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

William Least Heat-Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Johann Peter Hebel

Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Elke Heidenreich

Photo by Hans Weingartz / Wikimedia Commons.
Heinrich Heine

"Heinrich Heine (1840)"
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
Andre Heller

André Heller, 2006. Photo by Artevent / Wikimedia Commons.
Joseph Heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Amy Hempel

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)
Paul Heyse

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

E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) from Wikipedia
Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Nick Hornby

Michel Houellebecq

Siri Hustvedt

Piktor08 at de.wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
M.J. Hyland

Ireland

Four Courts and the River Liffey, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
pdphoto.orgJohn Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
B.K.S. Iyengar

Mutt Lunker
Pico Iyer

Derek Shapton
Ian Jack

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Joshilyn Jackson

Photo by Harris Ponder
P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksErnst Jandl

Photo by user PumpingRudi / Wikipedia, 1998.
Karl Jaspers

Miranda July

RJ Shaughnessy
Eric R. Kandel

August Wieselmayer from Wien Vienna, Österreich Austria
Ryszard Kapuscinski

wikimedia commons
John B. Keane

John B. Keane at 60
(Mercier Press Archive)
Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller by Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1886
Ken Kesey

Sarah Kirsch

(Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0531-0325)
Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
Heinrich von Kleist

Ruth Klüger

Courtesy of Ruth Klüger
Theodor Körner

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

Sylvia Plachy
Dalai Lama bsTan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, XIV.

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Stieg Larsson

PHOTO: DANIEL LAGERLOF/EXPO (c)2004
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Chang-Rae Lee

Prof. Chang-rae Lee. Photo by Denise Applewhite (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Stanislaw Lem

1966, Wojciech Zemek.
Siegfried Lenz

Photo by Lothar Schaack. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F030757-0015)
Doris Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Sinclair Lewis

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Portrait by Johann Ludwig Strecker (1744), print by J.C. Krueger
Jean Liedloff

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Titus Livius

from Wikipedia
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Nelson Mandela

Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Karl Marx

from Wikipedia
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]
Daphne du Maurier

Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Colum McCann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
John McCarthy

Roland Dobbins, May 13, 2006
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
Maureen McCarthy

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Frank McCourt

Malachy McCourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Carson McCullers

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

Ottop2
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
John McGahern

Photo © 2003 Jerry Bauer
Ron McLarty

James Meek

Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
Arthur Miller

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

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Denise Mina

Rohinton Mistry

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Nancy Mitford

Photo by Roloff Beny, Hotel Cipriani, Venice, 1957
(Credit: Roloff Beny/Library and Archives Canada/
PA-193744)
Max Müller

Elliott & Fry
J.R. Moehringer

photo by Becky Rech
George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Morris Jan

Mary McGarry Morris

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Kate Morton

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Eduard Mörike

Wikimedia Commons
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Pablo Neruda

Håkan Nesser

Cato Lein
Charles Nicholl

Sandro Michahelles
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gustav Schultze
Sherwin B. Nuland

Jerry Bauer
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Edna O'Brien

Flann O'Brien

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Liam O'Flaherty

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

Photo portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, 1918
(with Photoshop corrections by Steve Hopson) - Wikipedia
Stewart O'Nan

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Susie Orbach

George Orwell

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

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

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Kathy Page

Copyright Shari Mcdonald
Tony Parsons

Photograph by Teri Bloom
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Eliot Pattison

Jerry Bauer
Gudrun Pausewang

Photo by user Zefram / Wikimedia Commons
T. R. Pearson

Photography by T.R. Pearson
Stef Penney

Marisha Pessl

Ellis (Edith Pargeter) Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Caryl Phillips

Michael Eastman
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Anthony Powell

anthonypowell.org.uk
Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Hugh Prather

Gayle Prather
E Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Helmut Qualtinger

Anna Quindlen

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Fritz Reuter

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

Joachim Ringelnatz

Deutsche Bundespost
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tom Robbins

Marilynne Robinson

Roxana Robinson

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

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Arundhati Roy

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Oliver W. Sacks

Elena Seibert
Vita Sackville-West

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

J.D. Salinger

Anne Wilson Schaef

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Joseph Victor von Scheffel

Memorial to Joseph Victor von Scheffel, Heidelberg, Germany. Photo by user korkodush / Flickr.
Friedrich Schiller

Cathleen Schine

James Hamilton
Bernhard Schlink

Credit: Walter Popp, 2005, Saint-Paul-les-Vences, France
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Roger Lebacq
Arthur Schopenhauer

From Wikimedia Commons
Ingo Schulze

Credit: Caren Müller, 2004, Berlin, Germany
Alice Schwarzer

Hans Weingartz (http://www.Hans-Weingartz.de)
Chief Seattl

From Wikipedia. Taken by Sammis (studio) in 1864.
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Servan-Schreiber

servan schreiber
Wilhelm Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Rupert Sheldrake

Sam Shepard

Brigitte Lacombe
Vandana Shiva

Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Lionel Shriver

Gary Shteyngart

American Program Bureau
M.D. Bernie S. Siegel

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Dai Sijie

Jacques Sassier, Gallimard Editions
Merilyn Simonds

© Bernard Clark
Helen Simpson

Derek Thompson
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Ali Smith

© Jerry Bauer/AP
Zadie Smith

Sophokles

Muriel Spark

John Burlinson
Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Adalbert Stifter

Theodor Storm

Photography (1886)
David Stuart

David Stuart at Palenque. Photo by Melinda Y. Stuart.
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gary Taubes

Lawrence Lederman
Paul Theroux

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Hunter S. Thompson

Henry D. Thoreau

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

Photo by Larry D. Moore, 2006 (Wikimedia Commons)
Leo Tolstoy

public domain
Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Photo by André Karwath / Wikimedia Commons
Rose Tremain

Adriana Trigiani

Photo by Timothy Stephenson
Anthony Trollope

Photo by Napoleon Sarony
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jonathan Tropper

JonathanTropper.com
Lynne Truss

Photo © Barry Lewis
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Lao zi

Jane Urquhart

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Gloria Vanderbilt

Photo by Carl Van Vechten, May 23, 1958 (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Digital ID: van 5a52732)
Various

Joh. Heinr. Voß

Bust of Johann Heinrich Voss, Otterndorf, Germany. Photo by user Raboe001 / Wikimedia Commons.
Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Foster Wallace

Minette Walters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Waters

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eudora Welty

Rebecca West

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)
Thornton Wilder

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

Courtesy of Random House UK
Tim Winton

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Tom Wolfe

Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
David Wroblewski

Marion Ettlinger
Steve Yarbrough

Jerry Bauer
William Butler Yeats

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

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carl Zuckmayer

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