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Edward Abbey

Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Douglas Adams

Scott Adams

Aravind Adiga

Mark Pringle
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Louisa May Alcott

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

Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Dorothy Allison

Jonathan Ames

Photographed by Travis Roozée
Martin Amis

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anonymous

aristotle

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

Lance Armstrong answers questions from children and teens during the 35th-annual Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa in Spencer, Iowa, July 22, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joanna M. Kresge) (cropped)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson


Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
John James Audubon

C. Turner (engraver) / Frederick Cruickshank (painter)
Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Enid Bagnold

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

Nick Bantock
John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Chris Baty

Flickr user cybele-la
Daniel Carter Beard

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

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Simone de Beauvoir

Samuel Beckett

John Berendt

Eye on Books
Wendell Berry

Sarah Bird

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

Lawrence Block

Athena Gassoumis
Judy Blume

Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Dave Boling

Richard Nelson Bolles

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Ray Bradbury

Richard Brautigan

Berkeley Breathed

Eye on Books
Gil Brewer

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 Brontë

public domain, painted by Branwell Bronte
Dan Brown

credit: Philip Scalia
Jill Conner Browne

Rita Mae Brown

Eye on Books
Bill Bryson

Robert Cowen
Martin Buber

Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo by Carl Van Vechten in 1950
Vincent Bugliosi

Eye on Books
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Carole Cadwalladr

Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

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

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Caleb Carr

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
John le Carre

Jim Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Rachel Carson

from Wikipedia
Jimmy Carter

Photograph by Rick Diamond/Wireimage
Michael Chabon

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
The Prince of Wales Prince Charles

White House Photo by Paul Morse (cropped for Wikimedia Commons)
Tracy Chevalier

Photo by Graham Barclay
Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Agatha Christie

Stephen Clarke

Esby
Susanna Clarke

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Harlan Coben

Mark Coggins
Jonathan Coe

Paulo Coelho

J. M. Coetzee

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Michael Connelly

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
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)
Frederick Copleston

Patricia Cornwell

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08
David Crystal

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
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)
Paul Davies

Wikipedia author Markus Pössel (Mapos)
Don DeLillo

Anita Diamant

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
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
E. L. Doctorow

Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Keith Donohue

Cade Martin
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Eye on Books
Will Durant

Wayne W. Dyer

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Steve Earle

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
David Ebershoff

Photo by Edie High Sanchez
Umberto Eco

Receiving an honorary degree at the
Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2005
(credit: Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria)
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Barry Eisler

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
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Rafe Esquith

Karen Essex

photo by Lisa Rutledge
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Philip Jose Farmer

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Timothy Ferriss

Helen Fielding

Victoria Finlay

Martin Palmer
Norman Fischer

Photo by Laura Trippi / Flickr.
Carrie Fisher

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


Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Bruce Fogle

Ken Follett

Photograph by Barbara Follet, www.ken-follett.com
Amanda. Foreman

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Dick Francis

Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Jonathan Franzen

Tana French

Justin Farrelly, Sunday Tribune
James Frey

Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Kinky Friedman

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

©: 2006; courtesy of RobertFulghum.com
Jostein Gaarder

Evy Andersen
tinagent.com
Neil Gaiman

Shakti Gawain

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
William Gibson

Elizabeth Gilbert

Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Seth Godin

Natalie Goldberg

Photo by Joan Halifax / Flickr.
Glen David Gold

William Golding

William Goldman

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

Houghton Mifflin Trade and Reference Division
David Goodis

Nadine Gordimer

Sue Grafton

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Temple Grandin

Wikimedia Commons
John Gray

Stephen Greenblatt

Harvard University
Danny Gregory

Andrea Scher
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Matt Haig

photo by Jerry Bauer
Ayun Halliday

Photo by Greg Kotis
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Charlaine Harris

photo © Caroline Grayshock.
Bret Harte

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Louise L. Hay

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
William Least-Heat Moon

Photo by Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons
Ursula Hegi

Photographed by Gordon Gagliano
Martin Heidegger

Ernest Hemingway

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

Credit: Gertrude Käsebier, ca. 1900 (LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-12043)
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
Patricia Highsmith

© 2002 Michael J. Balzano (illustration)
Tony Hillerman

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Core Knowledge Foundation
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
David Hume

from Wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Self-portrait (1804). In Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Molly Ivins

Henry James

Wikipedia
P. D James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksPeter Jenkins

Peter Jenkins in Tok, Alaska. Photo courtesy of
Donna Blasor-Bernhardt, author of Waltz With Me, Alaska & Pioneer Road
Diane Johnson

Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger
Hillary Jordan

Photo by William Coupon
James Joyce

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

RJ Shaughnessy
Carl Gustav Jung

Franz Kafka

Maira Kalman

Immanuel Kant

Charlotte Kasl

www.charlottekasl.com
Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Soren Kierkegaard

Wikipedia
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Karen Kingston

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Sophie Kinsella

Caroline Knapp

Gerald Kolpan

Jonathan Rubin
Dean Koontz

Elizabeth Kostova

Eye on Books
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
Milan Kundera

Anne Lamott

Frances Moore Lappe

Reif Larsen

Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Harper Lee

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

Photo by Phil Lende
Elmore Leonard

photo copyright Steve Double
George Leonard

Aldo Leopold


Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C. S. Lewis

Daniel Libeskind

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Robert Ludlum

Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Xavier De Maistre

Portrait by Charles Steuben
Brennan Manning

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.)
Beryl Markham

Cigarette card, courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere Daphne du Maurier

Peter Mayle

Photo © 2006 Jean-Claude Simoen
James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Cormac Mccarthy

Derek Shapton
Scott McCloud

Colleen McCullough

Phillip C. McGraw

Jay McInerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
John McPhee

John Angus McPhee (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
James Merrill

Courtesy of University of Arizona Poetry Center
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton in Pictures
From the archives of the Thomas Merton Center.
Used with permission of the Merton Legacy Trust.
James A. Michener

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

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

Photo by Kieran Suckling
David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford

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

New Skete Monastery in the Snow. Photo by user Temp / Wikipedia.
Christopher Moore

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienToni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Farley Mowat

Caroline Myss

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Vladimir Nabokov

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

(cc) Michael Sauers, 2006
Katherine Neville

Photo by Dr. Dian Fetter
Audrey Niffenegger

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

Norton

DisassemblyOfReason, with thanks to reading_fox
Joyce Carol Oates

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
George Orwell

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

Mehmet C. Oz

Photo Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ann Packer

Credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Nancy Pearl

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Iain Pears

M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Stef Penney

Louise Penny

Taken by Lesa Holstine, March 2008
Jed Perl

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Thomas J Peters

Allison Shirreefs
DBC Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Michael Pollan

michaelpollan.com
Francine Prose

Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marcel Proust

DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Kwei Quartey

Photo by Steve Munoz, stevesinfocus.com
James Redfield

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Marc Reisner

Photo by Ty Barbour, Chico Enterprise Record
Rembrandt

Self-portrait, 1633,
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Rachel Naomi Remen

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ruth Rendell

Jerry Bauer
Samuel Richardson

Conrad Richter

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-117696
RM RILKE

Tom Robbins

Marilynne Robinson

J. K. Rowling

Don Miguel Ruiz

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Edward Rutherfurd

Oliver Sacks

Elena Seibert
J. D. Salinger

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Sark

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Jean-Paul Sartre

Eric Schlosser

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Charles M. Schulz

Photo by Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer
Amy Sedaris

David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Maurice Sendak

AA Services

Photo by user Vangore / Wikimedia Commons.
William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
David Allen Sibley

Photo by Carolynne Bailey
Kathy Sierra

Daniel Silva

Library of Congress
Shel Silverstein

Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Adam Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
National Geographic Society

Susan Sontag

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Dana Stabenow

Wallace Stegner


John Steinbeck

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

taleswapper
Jon Stewart

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

Wikimedia Commons.
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Lytton Strachey

from Wikipedia Commons
John Straley

Photo by Will Swagel
Graham Swift

Ekko von Schwichow
Lalita Tademy

Library of Congress
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Sloane Tanen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Deborah Tannen

Susanne van der Kleij
Michelle Tea

picture taken by C. Osnato
Alan Tennant

© 2004 Dan Thompson
William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Richard H. Thaler

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Twyla Tharp

2004 Medalist Twyla Tharp with NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and National Council on the Arts member Mary Costa.
Photo by Victoria Hutter.
Paul Theroux

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

Rupert Thomson

Hugo Glendinning
James Thurber

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

Robert Basile
Colm Toibin

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

public domain
G. B. Trudeau

Garry Trudeau in 1995, with his father Francis B. Trudeau, Jr. (founder of the
Trudeau Institute, an independent, not-for-profit biomedical research center) (courtesy of Garry Trudeau and the Institute)
Scott Turow

Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Lisa Unger

Photo By Jeff Unger. 2009
Kurt Vonnegut

Susan Vreeland

svreeland.com
Jim Wallis

Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
Andrew Weil M.D.

John R. Ziemann
Alan Weisman

Irvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
E. B. White

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

Rev. Mel White ~ Photo by Alan Light, Flickr (Cropped)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Thornton Wilder

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

Photo by Liam Burke
Tennessee Williams

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

Photo by Charles Kennedy
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Photo by Moritz Nähr / Ludwig Wittgenstein circa 1930 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienP.G. Wodehouse

Thomas Wolfe

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

Bob Woodward

Herman Wouk

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

Marion Ettlinger
PHILIP YANCEY

Randall Olsson
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Markus Zusak

Photo by Bronnwyn Rennix
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