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Peter Abelard

Peter Ackroyd

c Roderick Field
Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Hans Christian Andersen

Photograph by Thora Hallager, 1867, Copenhagen
Jessica Anderson

Courtesy of the author.
Anonymous

Anselm of Aosta

Lucius 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)
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
W.H. Auden

Marcus Aurelius

Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Juliet R. V. Barker

© Juliet Barker
Matsuo Basho

Portrait of Basho by Buson
Edward Bellamy

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
H. Belloc

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

Eye on Books
John Betjeman

John Birmingham

Photo: CraigPRichmond
R.D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Quentin Blake

Heinrich Böll

Photo by Harald Hoffmann, 1981. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv Bild B 145 Bild-F062164-0004)
Jorge Luis Borges

Tim Bowden

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
T.Coraghessan Boyle

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Sandra Boynton

Eye on Books
E. R. Braithwaite

Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, April 24, 1962 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-117467)
Raymond Briggs

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
Rupert Brooke

Scanned from a 1920 book of Brooke's poetry.
Geraldine Brooks

Robert Browning

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

Lord Lytton

From Wikipedia
Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

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

Photo by Byron James Bignell
Betsy Byars

A. S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Ernest Callenbach

Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Ada Cambridge

Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Charles Chaplin

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Anton Chekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Wikimedia
Susanna Clarke

Daniel Clowes

Photograph by Sean Dejecacion
Jean Cocteau

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

Babette Cole

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Confucius

J. California Cooper

Photo Courtesy of National Book Club Conference founder Curtis Bunn
Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham, writer
Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Dymphna Cusack

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)
Jack Dann

Catriona Sparks
Eleanor Dark

Ellen Datlow (ed)

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Joan Didion

Credit: David Shankbone, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 14, 2008
Rosemary Dobson

Original by Alec Bolton
John Donne

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

"Portrait of the Writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky",
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Umberto Eco

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

M. Barnard Eldershaw

George Eliot

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Southworth & Hawes
Euripides

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

Zoë Fairbairns

Photo by Roderick Field
Sebastian Faulks

Jerry Bauer
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Helen Fielding

Errol Flynn

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Harris & Ewing Collection
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-26017)
(cropped)
Ford Madox Ford

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIX, 1904, p. 544.
E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Miles Franklin

Charles Frazier

Joseph Furphy

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-42700)
Wanda Gag

Wanda Gag holding artist's palette, 1916-1917.
Helen (ed.) Gardner

John Burlinson
E.C. Gaskell

William John Thomson
Jean Genet

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jonathon Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Mary Gordon

Emma Dodge Hanson
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Günter Grass

October 2004, photographer Florian K., Wikimedia Commons
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet
Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Grimm Brothers

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
Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Marion Halligan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Jane Hamilton

Kevin Horan, 2006.
Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Sir Paul (ed.) Harvey

President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to legendary radio personality Paul Harvey, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the White House. White House photo by Shealah Craighead
(whitehouse.gov)
Seamus Heaney

Ernest Hemingway

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

Darwin 1938, State Library of NSW.
John Hersey

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

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Christopher Hitchens

Russell Hoban

Photograph courtesy of Lisa Greenstein, 2005.
Michael Holroyd

© Jerry Bauer
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Marya Hornbacher

maryahornbacher.com
Tony Horwitz

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
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
Christopher Isherwood

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Kazuo Ishguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Henry James

Wikipedia
James Joyce

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

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
John Keats

Jack Kerouac

Charles Kingsley

wikipedia
Rudyard Kipling

Milan Kundera

John La Farge

Philip Larkin

D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Henry Lawson

William Johnson (d. 1921)
Edward Lear

wikimedia commons
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Donna Leon

Primo Levi

C.S. Lewis

Norman Lindsay

Taken by Harold Cazneaux, 1931
James Russell Lowell

Photo while Minister to the United Kingdom, 1880-1885
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Amin Maalouf

Dinkley
Margaret Mahy

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
David Malouf

Conrad Del Villar
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

David Marr

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mary Marshall

Patricia Axford photo.
J.P. Martin

wikipedia
Chris Masters

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Armistead Maupin

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

Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Judith Merril (ed)

Courtesy of Emily Pohl-Weary.
Czeslaw (Ed. & Trans) Milosz

MDCarchives
Margaret Mitchell

Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Geoffrey of Monmouth

Statue of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Tintern, Wales. Photo © user Canis Major / Flickr.
Michel De Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
William Morris

From Wikipedia
Vladimir Nabakov

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

Frederic Reglain
Ogden Nash

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Wendy Doniger (trans) O'Flaherty

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Jacqueline (ed) Onassis

from Wikipedia
Joe Orton

John Burlinson
George Orwell

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

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

G88keeper
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
John Pilger

Photo by walnut whippet
Christine de Pizan

from Wikipedia
Sylvia Plath

Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
T. Maccius Plautus

Plutarch

Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Peter Porter

Simon James
OUP

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Katharine Susannah Prichard

May Moore (d. 1931)
E. Annie Proulx

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Monty Python

Four of the six members from Monty Python, and Foot. Photo collage by Husky; Eric Idle by VTscapes - Tom E. Canavan; Terry Gilliam by Rita Molnár; Michael Palin by Chipps; John Cleese by Alan Light; Foot - Public Domain
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Sir

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

copyrighted 1914 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78094)
Mary Renault

Henry Handel Richardson

Rupert Bunny, 1864-1947. The yellow scarf, portrait of Henry Handel Richardson [picture] [192-?].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an8136809
Rainer Maria Rilke

Geoffrey Robertson

Photo © Jane Bown
Michael Rosen

Photo credit: JK the Unwise (Wikipedia user)
Christina Georgina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Maurice-Quentin La Tour (1704-1788)
J. K. Rowling

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Joe Sacco

Photo by Matt Musselman
Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
J. D. Salinger

Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Sir Walter Scott

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

Art by Zero
Alice Sebold

Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
Maurice Sendak

Seneca

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
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Ben Sherwood

Nevil Shute

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

Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Stevie Smith

John Burlinson
Zadie Smith

Lemony Snicket

Michael Huang, October 29, 2006
Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Sophocles

Catherine Helen Spence

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Christina Stead

Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson

c. 1885
Kathleen Stewart

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Snorri Sturluson

Statue of Snorri Sturluson by sculptor Gustav Vigeland, in Bergen, Norway. An identical statue was erected at Reykholt, Iceland.
Source: Own work
Date: 27 March 2007
Author: Barend
Gaius Suetonius; Graves Tranquillus, Robert, Translator

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Cornelius Tacitus

Alfred Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Theroux

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

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
James Tiptree Jr

Alice Bradley Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.") Photo by Patti Perret
J.R.R. Tolkien

Saint Gregory, Bishop of Tours

Statue of Gregory of Tours, Cour Napoléon, the Louvre. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Rose Tremain

Joanna Trollope

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Anne Tyler

Photo © Diana Walker
Laozi

John Updike

Martha Updike
various

Giorgio Vasari

Self Portrait. Public domain
Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Virgil

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

Alice Walker

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Evelyn Waugh

photo by Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-42514
H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEudora Welty

Walt Whitman

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

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

George Emlyn Williams

Alec Murray,
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Wilmot Rochester, Earl of

Jeanette Winterson

jeanettewinterson.com
Tim Winton

P. G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Sue Woolfe

Sunder Madabushi
Leonard Woolf

Bust of Leonard Woolf at Monk's Head, Brighton. Photo by Oliver Mallinson Lewis / Flickr.
Virginia Woolf

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Judith Wright

Xenophon

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
W. B. Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Yevgeny Zamyatin

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