andyprocter's authors: 617 authors | 377 with pictures | 240 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Douglas Adams

Richard Adams

Photo by user AndrewRH / Wikimedia Commons
Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Louisa May Alcott

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

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

www.chrismsaunders.com
Laurie Halse Anderson

photo by Becky Rech
Anonymous

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson

Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
J. G. Ballard

Jerry Bauer
Honore de Balzac

Wikipédia France
Melissa Bank

John Banville

Jerry Bauer
Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
J.M. Barrie

Jacques Barzun

"With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40
Mario Batali

Credit: Charles Haynes, May 13, 2005
H. E. Bates

Courtesy of Pollinger Limited.
Joan Bauer

Miranda H.
Charles Baxter

George Baxt

Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
John Berendt

Eye on Books
Laurence Bergreen

Photo by Lilithcat
Louis De Bernieres

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Robert Bolt

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

Anthony Bourdain

Eye on Books
Mark Bowden

Paul Bowles

Blanche Mccrary Boyd

William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

Joan Brady

Photograph by Michael Trevillion
Anne Brontë

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
Charles Brockden Brown

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

Robert Cowen
John Buchan

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Pearl S. Buck

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

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Anthony Burgess

James Lee Burke

Robert Clark
Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
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)
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
(Wikipedia)
William S. Burroughs

Photo by Byron James Bignell
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
James M. Cain

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

Albert Camus

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

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
John le Carre

Lewis Carroll

Penelope Casas

© Kramer/Trebitz
Willa Cather

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

Finsthwait, May 25, 2007
Anton Chekhov

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
G. K. Chesterton

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Julia Child

Christopher Hirsheimer
Noam Chomsky

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

from Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

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

J. M. Coetzee

Carlo Collodi

Photographer Unknown
Joseph Conrad

from Wikipedia
Alistair Cooke

Marion S. Trikosko (1974)
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
John Cornwell

Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Noel Coward

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

From
Wikipedia, Malcolm Cowley photographed by Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1963.
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)
Miles Davis

Ned Vizzini
Richard Dawkins

Don DeLillo

Nelson DeMille

Kiran Desai

Rene Descartes

from Wikipedia
Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens

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

Philip K. Dick (photo by Nicole Panter ©2007)
diderot

Annie Dillard

Photo by Phyllis Rose
J. P. Dunleavy

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Theodore Dreiser

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

David Anthony Durham

Umberto Eco

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

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
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
James Ellroy

www.chrismsaunders.com
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jeffrey Eugenides

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicholas Evans

Christopher Jones
William Faulkner

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

c1866, Library of Congress
Joshua Ferris

Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Joy 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)
Gustave Flaubert

Jonathan Safran Foer

http://www.dentontaylor.com
C.S. Forester

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

From Wikimedia Commons
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Pat Frank

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

George MacDonald Fraser

Charles Frazier

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
James Frey

Thomas L. Friedman

Charles Haynes
Robert Frost

"Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920.
Library of CongressStephen Fry

www.chrismsaunders.com
Ernest J. Gaines

Ian Edelstein / Seattle Municipal Archives
Jane Gardam

Alex Garland

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Margaret George

Alison Kaufman
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Emily Giffin

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Malcolm Gladwell

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group
Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

E. H. Gombrich

The Warburg Institute
M Gorky

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

from Wikipedia
Katharine Graham

Columbia University
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Graham Greene

Mireille Guiliano

Andrew French
David Guterson

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
A. B. Guthrie Jr.

H. Rider Haggard

Wikipedia
Pete Hamill

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Edith Hamilton

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
M. John Harrison

Danie Ware
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
Kent Haruf

Cathy Haruf
John Hawkes

Courtesy of Dalkey Archive Press
Stephen W. Hawking

from Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Joseph heller

Photograph by Jerry Bauer
Zoe Heller

Photo by David Shankbone (Cropped/Wikimedia Commons)
Ernest Hemingway

Lee Samuels,
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.
James Herriot

The World of James Herriot (c) Hambleton District Council
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)
Christopher Hibbert

James Hogg

Wendy Holden

Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Anthony Hope

Image from: "The Bookman", vol. XIII, 1901, p. 408.
Nick Hornby

Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Michel Houellebecq

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Aldous Huxley

Wikipédia France
John Irving

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Madhur Jaffrey

Lisa Levert
Henry James

Wikipedia
Montague Rhodes James

www.stephengray.net
Boris Johnson

Steve Punter
James Joyce

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

wikimedia commons
Mary Karr

John Keats

Thomas Keller

Brett Wilson
John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
(jfklibrary.org)
Jack Kerouac

Ken Kesey

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Chip Kidd

Midtown Comics signing @ New York Comic-Con 2007, photo by Lampbane
Sue Kidd

Sigrid Estrada
Stephen King

Photo by user Penguino / Flickr, edited by Wikimedia uploader.
Sophie Kinsella

Rudyard Kipling

Ron Kovic

Photo (cropped) by Alan Light 1990.
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

Hari Kunzru

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons
D. H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Nigella Lawson

Credit: Phil Guest, 2004
David Leavitt

Tanya Tribble
Annie Leibovitz

Robert Scoble
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Primo Levi

C. S. Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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

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

Mario Vargas Llosa

MDCarchives
Jack London

Credit: Arnold Genthe, circa 1906-1916 (Arnold Genthe Collection,LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-G4085- 0411)
Robert Ludlum

Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Imre Madach

Photo by user Pataki Márta / Hungarian Wikipedia.
Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Greil Marcus

Experience Music Project Pop Conference, April 30, 2006.
Photo by Joe Mabel.
(Wikipedia)
Marguerite de Navarre

From a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yann Martel

© Daniele Schaub
Steve Martin

On promotion tour, 1982 (photo credit: wikipedia user Towpilot, Sept. 1982)
Christopher J Matthews

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Derek Shapton
Frank McCourt

Malachy Mccourt

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Ian Macdonald

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

Eamonn McCabe
Jay Mcinerney

Photo © 2005 Marion Ettlinger
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
George Meredith

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

Derek Shapton
Andrew Miller

Photo by Rul Xavier
Arthur Miller

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

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

John Stuart Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
Giles Milton

John Milton

Rohinton Mistry

Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Wikipédia France
L.M. Montgomery

wikipedia
Rick Moody

Alan Moore

Alan Moore photographed by Rachel Lovinger
Grant Morrison

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Nicholas Mosley

Courtesy of Persephone Books
Haruki; Gabriel Murakami, J. Philip

Elena Seibert
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Inga Muscio

Perseus Books
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Frederic Reglain
Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Anais Nin

Frank Norris

Arnold Genthe, Photographer (Library of Congress)
John O'Hara

O'Neill Eugene

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

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
P. J. O'Rourke

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
George Orwell

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Ann Patchett

Melissa Ann Pinney
Alan Paton

Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-44776
George S. Patton

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
As Lt. General. Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps. March 30, 1943
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-25122)
Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock by Roger Jean, circa 1805, from www.thomaslovepeacock.net
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
Walker Percy

by Baxter Knowlton
Edith Pargeter

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius

Nathaniel Philbrick

Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
D. B. C. Pierre

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

MDCarchives
Edgar Allen Poe

from Wikipedia
Dawn Powell

Julie Powell

unknown
Diana Preston

Marcel Proust

Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Thomas Pynchon

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Ruth Reichl

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Erich Maria Remarque

Public domain, Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum
David Remnick

David Remnick (photo courtesy of Princeton University)
J.K. Rowling

Arundhati Roy

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Photo by Hayward Wilkerson
Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
John Ruskin

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Marquis De Sade

Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.
The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old.
It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis
(Public domain ; Wikipedia)
J.D. Salinger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Siegfried Sassoon

Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Schama Simon

Photo by David Shankbone,
Strand Book Store, New York City,
Aug. 15, 2006
Chris Schlesinger

East Coast Grill
Robert Falcon Scott

Source: 1912 newspaper "The Sphere"
Sir Walter Scott

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

Oliver DelaCruz, November 19, 2005
Will Self

www.chrismsaunders.com
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)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

from Wikipedia (Richard Rothwell, 1840)
Upton Sinclair

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
B. F. Skinner

PsychArt
Alexander McCall Smith

Graham Clark, photographer
Delia Smith

Photo by user Dweller / Wikimedia Commons.
C. P. Snow

Dava Sobel

Ragesoss, November 8, 2007
Susan Sontag

Sophocles

John Steinbeck

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

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

c. 1885
Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
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)
Manil Suri

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Amy Tan

Credit: David Sifry, 2008
Donna Tartt

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
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

Jim Thompson

Michael J. Balzano
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
J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo Tolstoy

public domain
John Kennedy Toole

Sue Townsend

Niall McDermind
Anthony Trollope

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

Photo © Barry Lewis
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Jules Verne

from Wikipedia
Photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910)
Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, posing in Casa delle Letterature, Rome. Photo by
Rino Bianchi (courtesy of Rino Bianchi)
Virgil

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Robert James Waller

Copyright 2007 eyeonbooks.com
Janine Warner

Photo by David LaFontaine
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/WienIrvine Welsh

www.chrismsaunders.com
Eudora Welty

Michael Lee West

photo by Tyler West
Edith Wharton

from Wikipedia
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)
Thornton Wilder

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

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

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

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-06086)
P.G. Wodehouse

Tom Wolfe

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Wikipedia
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Malcolm X

From
Wikipedia. Photo taken as work for hire by Marion S. Trikosko for U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, who has donated it into the public domain.
Help/FAQs |
About |
Privacy/Terms |
Blog |
Contact |
APIs |
WikiThing |
Common Knowledge |
47,114,818 books!
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc.
| static: /