barefoot_syrinx's authors: 932 authors | 329 with pictures | 603 without pictures | popular authors without pictures (all users)
Lynn Abbey

Taken in 1989.
Peter Abelard

Douglas Adams

Gerry Adams

Photo by Flickr user Missfitz
Robert Adams

With permission of Mundania Press. http://www.mundania.com
Scott Adams

Aeschylus

Aesop

Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.
Joan Aiken

Rod Delroy
Brian W. Aldiss

Szymon Sokół
Lloyd Alexander

Dante Alighieri

Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)
Kevin J. Anderson

Michael P. Sauers
Anonymous

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)
Sue Armstrong

Isaac Asimov

©Rowena
Margaret Atwood

George Whiteside
St. Augustine


Jane Austen

Courtesy of the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Enid Bagnold

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

From The Strand Magazine, April 1893 (Project Gutenberg)
Cicely Mary Barker

Clive Barker

Steven Friederich
Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Photograph courtesy of Wayne Douglas Barlowe
J. M. Barrie

L. Frank Baum

Library of Congress
Holly Black

Loyd Blankenship

From Wikipedia
Judy Blume

Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Ancius Boethius

Isaac Bonewits

Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout wreath: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-npcc-10388)

Ray Bradbury

Marion Zimmer Bradley


Poppy Z. Brite

J. K. Potter
Anne Bronte


Charlotte Brontë

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
Terry Brooks

Steven Brust

David Dyer-Bennet
Pearl Buck

Credit: Arnold Genthe, ca. 1932
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-10297)
Algis Budrys, ed.

Shunn
Thomas Bulfinch

Anthony Burgess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Nikolas Coukouma
Jesse L. Byock

H. Gustavo Ciruelo Cabral

Gwyndon (Wikimedia Commons)
Julius Caesar

public domain
Joseph Campbell

Courtesy of Hay House, Inc.
Eva Cantarella

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/giuseppenicoloro/2249125548/in/set-72157603706880065/
Philip Caputo

Photograph by Stephen Ellis
Orson Scott Card

Lewis Carroll

Baldesar Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Willa Cather

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

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

photo by S. Reynolds at NorWesCon, Seattle WA USA , 2006-04-14
Kate Chopin

from Wikipedia
Agatha Christie

Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Tom Clancy


Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
James Fenimore Cooper

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

Photo by Rob Morgan
American Red Cross

American Red Cross recruiting poster by Harrison Fisher, 1918
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-1281)
Scott Cunningham

Taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Authorscottcunningham.jpg
Bob Curran

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)
David Damrosch, ed.

Charles Darwin

Water-colour portrait of Charles Darwin painted by George Richmond in the late 1830s (Public domain ; Wikipedia)
Ellen Datlow, ed.

KGB readings, NYC 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Pamela Dean

Photo by user Dd-b / Wikimedia Commons

Charles Dickens

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

Wikipedia
Philip K. Dick

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

from Wikipedia
Roddy Doyle

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
David Drake

Photo by Karen Zimmerman, webmaster
Pierre Dubois

Photo by user Ji-Elle / Wikimedia Commons
Eamon Dunphy

wikipedia
Terry Eagleton

Billlion
Eknath Easwaran

Monastic Dialogue
Einhard

from Wikipedia
T. S. Eliot

P. N. Elrod

www.vampwriter.com
Euripides

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

Alan Dean Foster

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, May 26, 2007, San Francisco BayCon
Anne Frank

Wikipédia France
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1777
Antonia Fraser

Susan Greenhill
James George Frazer

Robert Frost

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

tinyfroglet, July 28, 2007
Wendy Froud

Adrianna Dane

Cornelia Funke

CHICKEN HOUSE

Neil Gaiman

Paul Gallico

photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Dec. 28
James Finn Garner

Flickr user Fuzzy Gerdes
Mordicai Gerstein

By me.(©Pitcherbooks at LT.com)
Edward Gibbon

Wikipedia
Kahlil Gibran

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wikipédia France
William Golding

William Goldman

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

Photo courtesy the
University of Chicago Experts Exchange (
link)
Al Gore

Wikipedia
Kenneth Grahame

from Wikipedia
Harley Granville-Barker

George Grantham Bain Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division
(LC-DIG-ggbain-00601)
Robert Graves

The William Graves Collection
Lady Gregory

Image from Irish plays and playwrights (1913) by Cornelius Weygandt
Ursula K. Le Guin

James Gunn, ed.

James Edwin Gunn, SF author,
at the 2006 Nebula Awards
held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganGary Gygax

Courtesy of Alan De Smet.
Barbara Hambly

Photo by Robin Schindler
Edith Hamilton

Dashiell Hammett

Azarnick
Harry Harrison

Szymon Sokól (2005, Glasgow Worldcon)
David G. Hartwell

David Hartwell and Skylark, Boskone 2006, photo by Cory Doctorow
Giuliano Hazan

Andrea Hillebrand, photographer
in collaboration with Peter Bernard
Seamus Heaney

Robert A. Heinlein

Bernd Heinrich

University of Vermont
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.
Herodotus

Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Hesiod

Hermann Hesse

From Wikipedia. Photo taken in 1927 by Gret Widmann (†1930)
Kenneth Hite

Photo by Lilithcat
Megan Lindholm

Homer

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

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
L. Ron Hubbard, ed.

Victor Hugo

wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

US game designer, photo by Phibbi (Source: Wikipedia)
Rona Jaffee

Lisa Jardine

Courtesy of the author
Terry Jones

Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
James Joyce

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

Nikos Kazantzakis

Bust of Nikos Kazantzakis in Athens, Greece. Photo by user Badseed / Wikimedia Commons.
Molly Keane

Photograph of Molly Keane (c) D. Donohoue. Reproduced with the acknowledgement of Virago Press.
John Keats

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Exley of Exley Photo, copyright 2006
Ken Kesey

Marian Keyes

Neil Cooper, photographer
Thomas Kinsella

Ian Oliver, July 1, 2007
Rudyard Kipling

Richard A. Knaak

Courtesy of Richard A. Knaak
Gary Kowalski

Gary Kowalski, author
Nancy Kress

Ellen Datlow
Harvard Lampoon

WGA strike supporters outside Harvard Lampoon building, Harvard Square, November 2007; photo by
sushiesqueAndrew Lang

wikipedia
Langenscheidt

Gustav Langenscheidt. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William L. Langer, ed.

Harvard Square Library
D.H. Lawrence

from Wikipedia (1906 photograph)
Harper Lee

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

Fritz Leiber

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Gaston Leroux

from Wikipedia
Jonathan Lethem

http://www.dentontaylor.com

C. S Lewis

Meriwether Lewis

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

H. G. Liddell. Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Charles A. Lindbergh

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

Charles De Lint

By Leslie Howle
Titus Livius Livy

from Wikipedia
H.P. Lovecraft

Cover of "The United Amateur"
Lois Lowry

From openfields.org via wikipedia
George Lucas

Flickr user Trudi_
Lucretius

Sam J. Lundwall

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg, Fabula77, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977. Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Arthur Machen

www.worldwar1.com
Niccolo Machiavelli

Brenda Maddox

Magnus Magnusson

Photo by Paul Downey / Flickr.
John Mandeville

Full-page portrait of Sir John Mandeville, 1459
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Christopher Marlowe

Anonymous artist, held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
George R.R. Martin

Credit: Ellen Levy Finch, 1998, Seattle, Wash.
Paul J. McAuley

Ed McBain

Photographed by Dragica Dimitrijevic-Hunter
Patrick McCabe

© the University of Aberdeen
Anne McCaffrey

Geraldine McCaughrean

China Mieville

A. A. Milne

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

Margaret Mitchell

Michel de Montaigne

Painting by Thomas de Leu
L. M. Montgomery

wikipedia

Michael Moorcock

John Burlinson, Dec. 8, 2007
Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
David Morrell

Toni Morrison

Photo © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Walter Mosley

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Miyamoto Musashi

Painintg by Kuniyoshi Utagawa
Vladimir Nabokov

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

Anais Nin

Larry Niven

Larry Niven (1938- )
(Wikipedia)
Andre Norton

OrangeCon, 1978.
Naomi Novik

With husband Charles Ardai at the 2006
Nebula Awards held in New York City, 2007
Copyright © 2007
Ron HoganTim O'Brien

Greg Helgeson / Macalester College
Frank O'Connor

From Wikipedia
Scott O'Dell

Nuala O'Faolain

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Marc Okrand

Photo by English Wikipedia user
N-trueTillie Olsen

Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865–1947)
(AP Watt)
George Orwell

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

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Dorothy Parker

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

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Photo © Jon Barandica
Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Petronius

Eden Phillpotts

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

John Burlinson, Nov. 3, 2007
Sylvia Plath

Plato

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

Plutarch

Edgar Allan Poe

from Wikipedia
Frederick Pohl

(C) Bill Thompson's eyeonbooks.com
Polybius

Jerry. Pournelle

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Image courtesy of Nityananda dasa adhikari.
Terry Pratchett

Library of Congress
Philip Pullman

Jamie Pullman
Howard Pyle

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-USZ62-77333
Anna Quindlen

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Piers Paul Read

Mike Resnick

Anne Rice

Becket M. Ghioto
Samuel Richardson

Rick Riordan

Credit: Larry D. Moore, 2007 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas
Tom Robbins

Thomas Sadler Roberts

H. C. Phillips, Photographer, c1870-90 (Library of Congress)
Spider Robinson

C. A. Bridges (Jeanne and Spider Robinson, Necronomicon 2004)
Edmond Rostand

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-27977

J. K. Rowling

Steven Runciman

Salman Rushdie

Photo © Rossano B. Maniscalchi
Cervantes

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

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
R. A. Salvatore

Stephen J. Sansweet

Kevin Tostado
Stanley Schmidt

Photograph by Ellen Datlow
Peter Schweighhofer, ed.

Walter Scott

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Stuart Sherman, ed.

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

Photo by David Weeks ~ Wikimedia Commons
Robert Silverberg

Picture taken by Szymon Sokół
Shel Silverstein

Dan Simmons

Huston Smith

photo by Gregg Chadwick
Stephen Sondheim

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

Elizabeth George Speare

Edmund Spenser

Art Spiegelman

Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr
Norman Spinrad

Utopiales, Nantes, photo by Cory Doctorow
Michael A. Stackpole

Photo by Andrew Guyton / Flickr
Olaf Stapledon

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

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

taleswapper
Bruce Sterling, ed.

Credit: Cory Doctorow, 2005, Singapore
Robert Lewis Stevenson

c. 1885
Sean Stewart

Bram Stoker

Wikimedia Commons.
Gottfried von Strassburg

Jonathan Stroud

Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas
Suetonius

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Faith Sullivan

faithsullivan.com
Tacitus

Terence

Josephine Tey

John Burlinson
Dylan Thomas

Thucydides

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

J.R.R. Tolkien

Karen Traviss

Bjo Trimble

Bjo Trimble at home, November 1981, photo by Alan Light
Harry Turtledove

Library of Congress
Mark Twain

from Wikipedia
Lao Tzu

Sun-Tzu

John Updike

Martha Updike
Jack Vance

David M. Alexander
various

John Varley

Virgil

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

Daniel Wallace

Daniel Wallace, author of "Big Fish" (credit: Larry D. Moore, Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX, Nov. 1, 2008)
Lew Wallace

Major-General Lew Wallace, etching from a wartime photograph.
Lawrence Watt-Evans

by Julie Evans, copyright 2006, all rights
reserved, used by permission.
Jordan Weisman

Photo by Justin Hall, 2006 (Wikipedia)
Margaret Weis

Riccardo Cambiassi
H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells circa 1939 / Photo ©
ÖNB/WienE. B. White

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

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

De Smet photographer, name unknown
Laura aged 18, in 1885.
Jack Williamson

Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf, Berlin, 2007. Photo by user SpreeTom / Wikimedia Commons.
Donald A Wollheim, ed.

Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
William Wordsworth

Portrait by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842
(Yorck Project)
Xenophon

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

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Photo by Charles Lucke
William Butler Yeats

(Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-87604)
Jane Yolen

Timothy Zahn

Kent Akselsen
Roger Zelazny

At Discon II, by David Dyer-Bennet.
Help/FAQs |
About |
Privacy/Terms |
Blog |
Contact |
APIs |
WikiThing |
Common Knowledge |
47,288,904 books!
Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc.
| static: /