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Edward Abbey

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Eric Draper
Mumia Abu-Jamal

http://mumia.de/
Bella S. Abzug

Photo by Warren K. Leffler (Library of Congress)
Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Diane Ackerman

Library of Congress
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Mortimer J. Adler

MDCarchives
Edward Albee

Louisa May Alcott

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

World Telegram photo by Walter Albertin, 1956 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-117525)
David Allen

The David Allen Company

Dorothy Allison

Julia Alvarez

Jorge Amado

Kingsley Amis

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

Public-conversations
M.T. Anderson

Library of Congress
Maya Angelou

National Park Service
Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Anonymous

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Public-Conversations
Kate Atkinson


Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Paul (editor) Auster

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Mariano Azuela

wikipedia
Andrew J. Bacevich

Kalman Zabarsky
Melissa Bank

Russell Banks

Seamus Kearney
Banksy

Paolo Redwings from London, UK
Nick Bantock

Nick Bantock
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
John M. Barry

Ken Goldstein

Lynda Barry

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Ellen Bass

Janet Bryer
Zygmunt Bauman

from Wikipedia
Jennifer Baumgardner

Mary R. Beard

Simone De Beauvoir


Alexander Berkman

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00769)
Victor Bockris

portrait of Victor Bockris by Elsa Dorfman, www.elsa.photo.net early seventies.
Chris Bohjalian

Photo by Victoria Blewer
Lee C. Bollinger

Robert Scoble
Paul Bowles

Blanche Mccrary Boyd

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
Gwendolyn Brooks

MDCarchives
Helen Gurley Brown

World Telegram & Sun photo by John Bottega, 1964 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-125119)
Andrea J. Buchanan

Art Buchwald

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
David Byrne

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Julia Cameron

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Bebe Moore Campbell

Barbara DuMetz
Albert Camus

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

© Marion Ettlinger
Willa Cather

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

Credit: Victor Soares/ABr, 2003, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Ellen Chesler

Pema Chodron

http://www.christinealicino.com/
Margaret Cho

Noam Chomsky

Credit: Duncan Rawlinson, 2004,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Ward Churchill

Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr
Eldridge Cleaver

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

Stuart Archer Cohen

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Colette

from Wikipedia
Moosewood Collective

Moosewood, Inc.
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia

Stephanie Coontz

J. California Cooper

Photo Courtesy of National Book Club Conference founder Curtis Bunn
Gena Corea

geryunant.com
Stephen Cosgrove

Stephen R. Covey

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Angela Y. Davis

Don DeLillo

Daniel C. Dennett

Daniel C. Dennett
Jacques Derrida

Charles Dickens

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Walt Disney Productions


E. L. Doctorow

Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Rae Dohrn, 1970
(fbi.gov)
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

Elena Seibert
Dave Eggers

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)
Ralph Ellison

James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Louise Erdrich

Eye on Books
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Euripides

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

Christopher Jones
Sara M. Evans

Lillian Faderman

Courtesy California State University, Fresno
Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Frantz Fanon

William Faulkner

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

Drew Gilpin Faust

Tony Rinaldo
Anne Fausto-Sterling

Courtesy of Anne Fausto-Sterling
Leslie Feinberg

David Feldman

Courtesy of David Feldman
Helen Fielding

F.Scott Fitzgerald

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

Photo by Greer Gattuso (© 2005 Eric Foner)
Michel Foucault

Al Franken

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Thomas Frank

Wikimedia Commons
Jonathan Franzen

Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Carlos Fuentes

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)

Margaret Fuller

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Marcia M. Gallo

Courtesy of the author.
Helen Gardner

John Burlinson
ANN GARRY

Photo by Ann Garry's husband
Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson

Henry Louis Gates

Jean Genet

Henry George

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-37132
Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Photographed circa 1898 in costume by F. Holland Day
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-48305)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Allen Ginsberg

Ludwig Urning

Susan A. Glenn

Photo by Joel Mabel, 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)
John A. Glusman


Emma Goldman

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Paul Avrich Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02894)
Andy Goldsworthy

Nadine Gordimer

Philip Gourevitch

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

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
Gunter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Matt Groening

Gage Skidmore
David Grossman

Photo by Yaffa Phillips / whistlinginthedark.com
Girl Scouts of America

Juliette Gordon Low. Photo by user dbking / Flickr.
Barbara Guest

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

Alberto Korda
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ann Hagedorn

Alexander Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Heinrich Harrer

Bret Harte

Amy Hempel

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Barbara Ries
R. Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
John Hodgman

An Evening with Neil Gaiman at FIT, Hosted by John Hodgman, September 2006, by Lampbane
A.M. Homes


Bell Hooks

A pic I took at a talk at UNC-Charlotte
Nick Hornby


Zora Neale Hurston

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

Wikipédia France
Patricia Ireland

National Organization for Women

John irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kenneth T. Jackson

Columbia University
Robert Jensen

Courtesy of Expathos Netherlands
Charles Johnson

Photograph by Mary Randlett

June Jordan

Sebastian Junger

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

Cynthia Kadohata

kira-kira.us
Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (left), National Humanities Award Ceremony 2003. Detail of White House Photograph by Paul Morse.
Frida Kahlo

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-42516 DLC
Maira Kalman

Mary Karr

Mollie Katzen

Photography by Ed Anderson
Jackie Kay

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
John Keats


Helen Keller

Library of Congress
Fanny Kemble

From "Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871-1883" (1902) ~ Project Gutenberg
Thomas a Kempis

Jack Kerouac

Jamaica Kincaid

Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Gail K. Evanari
Rudyard Kipling

Naomi Klein

Photo by Jacob Appelbaum
David C. Korten

Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol at Pomona College 17 April 2003, from Wikipedia
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
Nicholas D. Kristof

Milan Kundera

Dalai Lama

H.H. Dalai Lama XIV, Tenzin Gyatso
Anne Lamott

D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
Vladimir I. Lenin

C. S. Lewis

David L. Lewis

Columbia University
Mark Leyner

Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 10, 2006,
at the Chelsea Barnes & Noble, New York City
Alan Lightman

(cc)2004, Michael Sauers
Rosa Luxemburg

From Wikimedia Commons
Norman Mailer

Carl Van Vechten
Winnie Mandela

"Rotational"
David Maraniss

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bobbie Ann Mason

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin (left) at the Sundance Film Festival, 2006. Photo by
Jere James McBride

Photo by Judy Lawne
Frank McCourt

Patrick McDonnell

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

Eamonn McCabe
Terry McMillan

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Henry Miller

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

A.A. Milne

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

MDCarchives
Yukio Mishima

Shirou Aoyama (1956)
George Monbiot

www.chrismsaunders.com
Michael Moore

Wikimedia Commons
Edmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Robin (Editor) Morgan

Blake Morgan

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Ralph Nader

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Tasalima Nasarina

Bangladesh Blogger, May 1, 2005
Gloria Naylor

David Shankbone, August 2007
Ingrid Newkirk

Anais Nin

Christiane Md Northrup

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Barack Obama


Tim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Flannery O'Connor

Kenzaburo Oe

Michael Ondaatje

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Dean Ornish

George Orwell

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

Octavio Paz


Lynn Peril

Photo by Jane Townley.
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Mary Pipher

Christine De Pizan

from Wikipedia
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Ezra Pound

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Dawn Powell

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
DK Publishing

Dorling Kindersley Building, London. Photo by James Cridland / Flickr.
Thomas Pynchon

Anna Quindlen

Arnold Rampersad

Brigitte Carnochan
David Rees

Chris Regan

Deborah Lopez Photography
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
Sheri Reynolds

sherireynolds.com
Leonard Richards

Theresa Richards
Rainer Maria Rilke

Penny Rimbaud

Penny Rimbaud (on right). Andy Newcombe, April, 2007
Sogyal Rinpoche

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Tom Robbins

Susanna Rowson

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


Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Bertrand Russell

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

Elena Seibert
Edward W. Said

Mariam C. Said
J.D. Salinger

Felix Salten

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Sarah Schulman

West Hollywood Book Fair 2009
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
David Sedaris

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Hannah Senesh

Julia Serano

atp_tyreseus, June 19, 2007
Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton by Elsa Dorfman
Susan M. Shaw

Vandana Shiva

Anita Shreve

Photo courtesy of Hachette Book group
Alix Kates Shulman

photographer, Marion Ettlinger
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Peter Singer

Peter Singer (1946- )
(Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University)
Peter Sis

Matěj Baťha
Jane Smiley

Elena Seibert
Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

Dale Spender

Monica Spender
Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Starhawk

photo by Bert Meijer
Peter Stearns

Credit: David Shankbone, 2006, New York City
Lincoln Steffens

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-05710)
Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem (1934- )
News conference, Women's Action Alliance.
Photograph by Warren K. Leffler, Jan. 12, 1972.
(U.S. News and World Report Collection,
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
T.J. Stiles (editor)

Copyright © T.J. Stiles (courtesy of the author)
Debbie Stoller

Flickr user noricum (2006)
Tom Stoppard

photo credit: ITV Granada
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Leora Tanenbaum

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Public-Conversations
Dylan Thomas

Lewis Thomas

E. P. Thompson

John Kennedy Toole

Ivan Turgenev

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

from Wikipedia

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Richard Howard
Jessica Valenti

Various

Jr. Kurt Vonnegut

Sarah Vowell

Photograph by Bennett Miller

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Roz Warren (editor)

Wim Wenders

Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Oct. 7, 2005
Rebecca West

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

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Elie Wiesel

Elena Seibert
Laura Ingalls Wilder

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Kristian Williams

Sheryl Eldridge, Newport Public Library, Newport, Oregon
William Carlos Williams

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Naomi Wolf

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Douglas Wood

Courtesy of Douglas Wood
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
Alex Wrekk

Stumptown Comics Fest 2006, photo by Joshin Yamada
Anzia Yezierska

Lima News (Ohio), July 3rd, 1922.
Banana Yoshimoto

Eiichiro
Evgeniˆi Ivanovich Zamiatin

Paul Zindel

Howard Zinn

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Emile Zola

Wikipédia France
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