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Chinua Achebe

Photo © Stephen Long
Douglas Adams

Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson, on left. Credit: Marion Kaplan.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Okey Adichie
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Cesar Aira

Chingiz Aitmatov

Andreas Zak
Anna Akhmatova

wikimedia commons
Boris Akunin

Rabih Alameddine

Elena Siebert
Daniel Alarcon

Photo by Mathieu Bourgois
Madeleine Albright

from Wikipedia

Louisa May Alcott

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

Photograph by Rineke Dijkstra
Monica Ali

Photographed by Robin Matthews
Isabel Allende

Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Susanne Alleyn

Chris Van Allsburg

Author of children's books Chris Van Allsburg (right) and NASA engineer Jennifer Keyes (center) speak with Digital Learning Network host Rachael Manzer during a live videoconference on Nov. 16 at Langley Research Center. Photo by Jeff Caplan.
(nasa.gov)
Steve Almond

Julia Alvarez

Sarah Andrews

Ivo Andric

Natalie Angier

Image courtesy of Natalie Angier.
Karen Armstrong

Jerry Bauer
Matthew Arnold

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)
Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Kate Atkinson


Margaret Eleanor Atwood

George Whiteside
W. H. Auden

Jane Austen

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

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Tash Aw

mathieu bourgois
Majgull Axelsson

Jan Ainali

Trezza Azzopardi

Charlotte Bacon

Brad Choyt

Anita Rau Badami

Photo by Richard-Max Tremblay
Joe Bageant

Kenneth V. Smith
ken@kvsmith.com

Julianna Baggott

Photograph by Carlos Alejandro
Doreen Baingana

Kage Baker

Photo by Den'Al Damron-McElhiney
Nicholson Baker

denton@speakeasy.net
Iain Banks

Tim Duncan
Alessandro Baricco

Robert Koch
Juliet Barker

© Juliet Barker
Nicola Barker

Tony Davis
Pat Barker

Julian Barnes

Photo © 2005 Ellen Warner
Emily Barton

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Christopher Barzak

Nebula nominee Christopher Barzak
with editor Liz Gorinsky at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganPeter Beagle

Wikipedia
Elizabeth Bear

s.shipman
Greg Bear

By Marci Malinowycz, © 1999.
Simone De Beauvoir

Robin Behn

University of Alabama
James Madison Bell

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

RAND Corporation
Gregory Benford

Alan Bennett

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Suzanne Berne

Frank Bidart

© Jerry Bauer

Elizabeth Bishop

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
Julia Blackburn

Jerry Bauer
R. D. Blackmore

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.
Luther Blissett

Wu Ming Foundation
Amy Bloom

© Beth Kelly
Wayne C. Booth

Photo courtesy the University of Chicago News Office
Jorge Luis Borges

Joan Borysenko

Photo courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Ben Bova

Elizabeth Bowen

Reproduced by kind permission of the Mervyn Peake Estate
Paul Bowles

Barbara Boxer

from Boxer's U.S. Senate website
Joseph Boyden

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
William Boyd

Jerry Bauer
Ray Bradbury

photo by Gregg Chadwick
William Bradford

Photo by T.S. Custadio (Wikipedia)
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Anne Bradstreet

Illustration from An Account of Anne Bradstreet The Puritan Poetess and Kindred Topics by Col. Luther Caldwell, 1898
Fernand Braudel

David Brin

By R. Feist
Andre Brink

André Brink at The International Forum on the Novel, Lyon, France. Photo by Seamus Kearney / Wikimedia Commons.
Lora Brody

Bob Four

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
Geraldine Brooks

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Public domain (Wikipedia)
William Wells Brown

From an 1854 publication
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Pearl S. Buck

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

Harvard University
Mikhail Bulgakov

Photo from the Bulgakov's fund archive.
John Bunyan

Fanny Burney

Engraving by Charles Turner, published 1840
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Augusten Burroughs

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Octavia E. Butler

Nikolas Coukouma
A.S. Byatt

Seamus Kearney
Italo Calvino

Jerry Bauer
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Albert Camus

http://www.davidlavery.net/barfield/ (Owen Barfield)
James Canon

Photo by Jerry Bauer
Orson Scott Card

Peter Carey

© Marion Ettlinger
Jonathan Carroll

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Mircea Cartarescu

Photo by Cosmin Bumbuţ, www.bumbutz.com

Angela Carter

John Burlinson
Stephen L. Carter

Elena Seibert
Christopher Castellani

Photo by Neil Giordano
Willa Cather

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Suzy McKee Charnas

Permission of SMC
Susan Cheever

Photograph by Sigrid Estrada
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Photo by Graham Barclay
Ted Chiang

Elze Hamilton
L. Maria Child

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

from Wikipedia
Sandra Cisneros

Ruben Guzman
Arthur Charles Clarke

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

Meg Waite Clayton

photo by McCord Clayton
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Official portrait of Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2009
John Clute

Elze Hamilton
J.M. Coetzee

Billy Collins

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth/Charles Beckman
Wilkie Collins

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Maryse Conde

John Connolly

Eye on Books
Robert Coover

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell. Picture uploaded by Kindermord.
Douglas Coupland

© D.J. Weir
Mia Couto

Jim Crace

Deborah Crombie

Taken by Lesa Holstine, 7/1/08

A.J. Cronin

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

John Crowley

Photo by Zoe Crowley
Yasmin Crowther

E. E. Cummings

New York World-Telegram and the Sun
staff photographer Albertin, Walter, 1953
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-113649)
Liza Dalby

Photo by Albie Sharp
Caroline Healey Dall

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822-1912) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
William Dalrymple

Ragu Rai/Magnum
Emma Darwin

Photo by Roderick Field
Mike Dash

Photograph © Harry Borden
Robertson Davies

Angela Y. Davis

Samuel R. Delany

Credit: Kathryn Cramer
Alan DeNiro

Kate McGough
Anita Desai

denton@speakeasy.net
Robb Forman Dew

Howie Levitz
Colin Dexter

Charles Dickens


Emily Dickinson

Wikipedia
Thomas M. Disch

Ariel Hameon
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

chitradivakaruni.com
Edward Docx

Monica Curtain
Rosina Lippi

Nurmi Husa
Emma Donoghue

Eye on Books
Candas Jane Dorsey

Edgar H, May 6, 2006.
Maureen Dowd

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

from Wikipedia
Margaret Drabble

Photo © Jerry Bauer
L. Timmel Duchamp

Clare Dudman

Credit: Sandra Johnson
(AP Watt)

Carol Ann Duffy

walnut whippet
Alexandre Dumas

Sarah Dunant

Elaine Dundy


Helen Dunmore

© Jerry Bauer
Mark Dunn

Stephen Dunn

Columbia University
Jeanne Duprau

Photo by Alice Cummings
Marguerite Duras

Portrait of Marguerite Duras from French Foreign Affair Ministry website
David Anthony Durham

Sarah Beth Durst

Photo by Adam Durst
Umberto Eco

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

The Hon. Emily Eden, from a drawing by George Richmond, R.A.
Maria Edgeworth

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

Barbara Ehrenreich

Photo by Robert Birnbaum
(courtesy of the photographer)

George Eliot

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

James Elkins

Carol Emshwiller

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Per Olov Enquist

Jan Ainali
Anne Enright

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Anne Fadiman

Connie Miller
Linda Fairstein

Susan Faludi

Jan Ainali
Nuruddin Farah

Philippe Matsas
Nancy Farmer

Photo by Harold Farmer, provided by publisher
Elaine Feinstein

Tim Bishop
Fanny Fern

c1866, Library of Congress
Jasper Fforde

Fordan
Henry Fielding

wikipedia
Paul di Filippo

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Penelope Fitzgerald

John Burlinson
Gustave Flaubert

Susan Fletcher

Photo by Christy Williams
Robert William Fogel

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Jeffrey Ford

Flickr user night_shade_bks
Aminatta Forna

E. M. Forster

From Wikimedia Commons
Karin Fossum

© Bo-Aje Mellin

Karen Joy Fowler

Jeff Willhelm, www.squawvalleywriters.org/press.htm
John Fowles

Miles Franklin

Pat Frank

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

Don Freas

Photo taken by laytonwoman3rd Summer, 2000
Lynn Freed

Nell Freudenberger

Marion Ettlinger
Betty Friedan

Fred Palumbo (1964)
Esther Freisner

Esther Friesner. Photo by Catriona Sparks. Wikimedia Commons
Gregory Frost

Kyle Cassidy
Robert Frost

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

Used by permission: Victoria University, E.J. Pratt Library
Margaret Fuller

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

CHICKEN HOUSE
Neil Gaiman

Damon Galgut

Mathieu Bourgois.com
John Galsworthy

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth Gaskell

William John Thomson
Henry Louis Gates

Tess Gerritsen

Photo by Jacob Gerritsen

Amitav Ghosh

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
William Gibson

Daniel Gilbert

Marilynn Oliphant

Sandra M. Gilbert

Courtesy of the author.
Carol Gilligan

Joyce Ravid
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nikki Giovanni

Julia Glass

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Jane Gleeson-White

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Victoria Glendinning

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Louise Gluck

William Goldman

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

Brian Velenchenko
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kathleen Ann Goonan

Permission of KAG.
Nadine Gordimer

Angelica Gorodischer

Ariadne Primavera
Theodora Goss

Courtesy of the author.
Gavin Grant

Catriona Sparks
Linda Grant

Judah Passow
Alex Gray

Tim Duncan
John Gray

Harvey Green

Susan R. Williams
Henry Green

Germaine Greer

Photo by walnut whippet

Kate Grenville

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Nicola Griffith

Kelley Eskridge
Jacob Grimm

from Wikipedia
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Jacob is on the right
Michael Gruber

Sara Gruen

Robert C. Gruen

Ursula K. Le Guin

Xiaolu Guo

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007

Abdulrazak Gurnah

© Mark Pringle
Lars Gustafsson

Suz
Helon Habila

Marilyn Hacker

Rawi Hage

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
Jennifer Haigh

photo: Asia Kepka
David Halberstam

Joe Haldeman

flickr user Ellen Datlow
Sarah Josepha Hale

Alex Haley

Courtesy of www.mrdowling.com/609ancafr.html
Donald Hall

Photo by Ellen Wright, 2006
Sarah Hall

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Sue Halpern

Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Patricia Hampl

John Burlinson, Nov. 9, 2007

Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand at Finncon 2007 in Jyväskylä, Finland - July 2007
Photo by Mikko Aarnio, mikko.aarnio@iki.fi -- released to the creative commons

Thomas Hardy

from Wikipedia
Jane Harris

photo by Jerry Bauer
Joanne Harris

Uploaded to Flickr by Walnut Whippet
Kathryn Harrison

Photo by Joyce Ravid
M.John Harrison

Danie Ware
Sam Harris

Photo by Sara Allen (Wikimedia Commons)
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Julia Hartwig

Kraków, August 2004, photograph by Mariusz Kubik

Nathaniel Hawthorne

from Wikipedia
Shirley Hazzard

Seamus Heaney

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

John Burlinson
Robert Heinlein

Mark Helprin

Lisa Kennedy
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.
Ingrid Hill


Reginald Hill

Tony Davis
Susan Hill

susan-hill.com
James Hilton

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James P. Hogan

Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Paul Hoover

Photograph by Maxine Chernoff.

Nalo Hopkinson

Nick Hornby

Dara Horn

Photo: Michael Priest
Khaled Hosseini

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Silas House

Photo by Cheyenne House
Henry F Howe

William Dean Howells

from Wikipedia
Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Photography by Jack Delano, april 1942.
(Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress)
Robert Hughes

Joyce Ravid
Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

Eric Idle

Photo by Tom E. Canavan

Arnaldur Indridason

Patricia Ireland

National Organization for Women
Kazuo Ishiguro

Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl
Shelley Jackson

Photo © Kipling Swehla
Shirley Jackson

Susan Jacoby

Photo by Chris Ramirez
Narendra Jadhav

Henry James

P.D. James

Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of
Faber BooksTahar Ben Jelloun


Gish Jen

Photo © 2004 J.D. Sloan
Jerome K. Jerome

Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Courtesy of www.themanbookerprize.com
Ben Jones

Photo by A. Anne Jones
Edward P. Jones

Library of Congress

Gail Jones

Tim Jones

Photo: Sonali Mukherji
Erica Jong

Marion Ettlinger

Graham Joyce

Photo by Sophia Quach
Heidi Julavits

denton@speakeasy.net
Hitomi Kanehara

M. M. Kaye

John Keats

Elizabeth Keckley

Image from Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House (1868) by Elizabeth Keckley
N. M. Kelby

Courtesy of the author

James Patrick Kelly

Jim Kelly

Neil Cooper
Etgar Keret

Moti Kakayon (מוטי קיקיון)
John Kessel

Norma Khouri

Elias Khoury

Suz
Jamaica Kincaid

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

Natsuo Kirino

Makoto Watanabe
Ellen Klages

Kaethe Kollwitz

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

Ellen Datlow
Michelle de Kretser

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Hari Kunzru

Jhumpa Lahiri

Photo © Elena Seibert
Jay Lake

Photo by Susan Lake
Laila Lalami

Photo by Sara Corwin
Nikita Lalwani

credit: Vik Sharma
Christina Lamb

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Wikimedia Commons

Margo Lanagan

Justine Larbalestier

Photo by Niki Bern
Asa Larsson

Bilder
Marghanita Laski

Courtesy of Persephone Books.
Margaret Laurence

Peter Esterhazy, with kind permission of the Estate of Margaret Laurence.
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Halldor Laxness

Richard Lederer

Photo by Hoffman Photographic
Hermione Lee

Jane Brown
Dennis Lehane

SpacemanSpiff, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2, 2006.
Julia Leigh

Noah Sheldon
Nikolai Leskov

wikipedia - Portrait by Valentin Serov 1894
Wendy Lesser

Photo by Charles Haynes, on
FlickrDoris May Lessing

www.chrismsaunders.com
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com
Denise Levertov

Portriat of Denise Levertov taken by Elsa Dorfman on Flagg St, Cambridge, MA
Paul Levinson

photo by Emon Hassan
Andrea Levy

Edinburgh International Book Festival
C.S. Lewis

Marina Lewycka

Lewis Libby

From U.S. White House Biography Page (Wikipedia)
Kelly Link

Courtesy of the author
Leslie Linsley

Jon Aron
Laura Lippman

David Liss

Penelope Lively


Margot Livesey

Photo by Nigel Beale / Flickr
David Lodge

Courtesy of Penguin Group Marketing
Jack London

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

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
(Project Gutenberg)
Jennifer Louden

Chris Mosio
Peter Lovesey

(c) Mike Eddowes, Mike Eddowes Photography

Amy Lowell

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

Wikipedia
Thomas Lynch

Photo by Alan Betson
Wangari Maathai

George MacDonald

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.)

Ian R. MacLeod

Credit: Gillian Bowskill (courtesy of Ian MacLeod)
Margaret MacMillan

Greg Smolonski
Gregory Maguire

Eye on Books
Naguib Mahfouz

Photo © Barry Iverson
Rani Manicka


Henning Mankell

Lina Ikse Bergman
Thomas Mann

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection
Louise Marley

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Harriet Martineau

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Famous Women" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
(Project Gutenberg)
Valerie Martin

Jerry Bauer
Daniel Philippe Mason

Vintage, 2007
Sujata Massey

Jim Burger
Daphne du Maurier

Paul McAuley

Colum Mccann

Credit: David Shankbone, 2007
Cormac McCarthy

Derek Shapton
Robert McCrum

John McCutcheon

Courtesy of Birmingham Alabama Public Library (Flickr)
Ian McEwan

Eamonn McCabe
Andrew McGahan

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Patrick McGrath

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

Maureen F. McHugh

Ami McKay

Ian McKay
Herman Melville

from Wikipedia
Farah Mendlesohn

Photo taken Aug. 11, 2006 Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Kirsten Menger-Anderson

photo by Michael Rauner
Anne Michaels

(c) Caroline J McElwee
James A. Michener

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

China Mieville

Sue Miller

Photo © 2004 Debi Milligan
Steven Millhauser

A. A. Milne

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

MDCarchives
John Milton

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

David Mitchell

Mariusz Kubik (Warsaw, 2006)
Naomi Mitchison

Photo by user MacRusgail / Wikimedia Commons.
Hayao Miyazaki

Thomas Schulz
Vilhelm Moberg

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

Photo by Kam McGowan
Malika Mokeddem

Esby
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienEdmund S. Morgan

Columbia University
Fidelis Morgan

fidelismorgan.com
Toni Morrison

James Morrow

Didier Leclerc
John Mortimer

Bill Moyers

Paul Muldoon

Herta Muller

Alice Munro

Photo © Derek Shapton
Haruki Murakami

Elena Seibert
Ryu Murakami

Joi Ito
Iris Murdoch

© Steve Pyke 1990 (use of image requires permission from
Steve Pyke)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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

Deutsche Post der DDR / Wikimedia Commons
V.S. Naipaul

Frederic Reglain
National Park Service

El Capitan and Merced River, Yosemite National Park, California
pdphoto.orgShira Nayman

Photograph by Ruby Washington
Audrey Niffenegger

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

Linda Nochlin

NYU Institute of Fine Arts
Diana Norman


Joyce Carol Oates

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

Nnedi Okorafor-mbachu


Sharon Olds

Margaret Oliphant

Mrs. Oliphant
Mary Oliver

(c) Rachel Brown
Tillie Olsen

Linda Olsson

Suz
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/
Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Alicia Suskin Ostriker (1937- )
Alicia Ostriker howling: remembering Allen Ginsberg.
Photo by David Shankbone, Aug. 19, 2006, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
Julie Otsuka

Daryl N Long
Helen Oyeyemi

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Ruth L. Ozeki

ZZ Packer

Marion Ettinger
Camille Paglia

Misa Martin
Orhan Pamuk

Allen and Unwin Media Centre
Dorothy Parker

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

National Archives, Washington D.C.
A.B. Paterson

Wikimedia Commons
Octavio Paz

Maria Peagler

Maria Peagler, author of Color Mastery: 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts
Matthew Pearl

Photo © Sigrid Estrada
M. Scott Peck

Jonathan Olson
Per Petterson

Per Petterson, Norwegian author. Photo by Wikipedia user GAD.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

See below.
Nathaniel Philbrick

Arthur Phillips

Jan Phillips
Jodi Picoult

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Marge Piercy

Richard Rosenthal
Robert Pinsky

Photo credit: Jared C. Benedict, May 15, 2005
Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederik Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Rachel Pollack

Richard Powers

Photo copyright Marion Ettlinger
Tim Powers

Taken by Johan Anglemark
Oxford Univ Press

Photo by George Sylvain / Flickr.
Katharine Susannah Prichard

May Moore (d. 1931)
Christopher Priest

Clairwitch, 2005
Heather Pringle

Lily Prior

Courtesy of the author
Francine Prose

Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Annie Proulx

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

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

Jamie Pullman
Alexander Pushkin

courtesy Wikipedia
Robert D. Putnam

Photograph by Marsha Stewart
Barbara Pym

Gregory Rabassa

2006 National Medal of Arts recipient and literary translator Gregory Rabassa with President and Mrs. Laura Bush
White House Photo by Paul Morse

Ian Rankin

Photo by Tim Duncan
Ron Rash

Western Carolina University
Kit Reed

kitreed.net
Robert B. Reich

Perian Flaherty
Laura Restrepo

Photo © Carlos Duque
Margaret Reynolds

www.chrismsaunders.com
Rainer Maria Rilke

Alexandra Robbins

Adam Roberts

Georges Seguin
Kenneth Lewis Roberts

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

Photo © Jerry Bauer
Harriet H. Robinson

Harriet Hanson Robinson (b.1825), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Marilynne Robinson

Jane Rogers

Jerry Bauer
Phyllis Rose

Christina Rossetti

from Wikipedia
Joseph Roth

Peter Rowland

Susanna Rowson

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

Pradip Krishen
Matt Ruff

Salman RUSHDIE

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi

Mary Doria Russell

Courtesy of the author
Joanna Russ

Liz Henry
Richard Russo

Elena Seiberg
Geoff Ryman

Eastercon 2006, Glasgow, Scotland. Copyright © Johan Anglemark, 2006 (image use requires permission of
Johan Anglemark)Vita Sackville-West

Philip Alexius de László d. 1937
Habeeb Salloum

Mark Salzman

Photo Credit © Jessica Yu
Jose Saramago

Periodista digital.com
Marjane Satrapi

Maria Ortis
Robert J. Sawyer

Copyright 2005 by Carolyn Clink
Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
Alice Sebold

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